29 week twin bumpdate

Size of babies:  a butternut squash.  They were 2lb 7 oz. and 2lb 3 oz. at my 28 week appointment.  Should be around 15 inches long. 

 

Size of mama:  large and in charge. Almost as big as I got the whole time with Collins.... Yowzers.

Comments from strangers run the scale from "ouch, it makes me hurt to look at you." (True story a woman said that to me in the grocery store yesterday) to " you don't look big enough for twins." To " oh goodness... Any day now!" I just have to laugh them all off at this point. I can't imagine what people will say to me in July.....

How I feel:  Still hangin’ in there.  Same as before, fine during day…..really tired and sore by night. 

 

*My 28 week checkup:  at last week’s doctor’s appointment, I got an A++.  Ha!  My doctor is SO enthusiastic about the female body and pregnancy it is hard not to share his happiness.  I passed my glucose test on the first time, yippee!!!  *I had to take the three hour with Collins.* My doctor was so excited about how well I’m doing, the dreaded words came out of his mouth…….”I really want you to try and get to 38 weeks.”  Do, huh?!?  *Yes, I know and fully realize the longer these sweet boys are inside of ME, the better, but it’s a total mind screw when he told me from the get go that 36 is average delivery and they take most twins by 37.  That’s kind of what I had been banking on all along…so then I get the phone call from the nurse to schedule a c section and the way it worked with my Docs schedule and the hospital schedule….I’m actually scheduled for 38.5weeks!!!!  That would be longer than I was pregnant with Collins!!!!!!!!!  YIKES.  We went ahead and scheduled a c section because baby A is STILL breech….and my doctor said it’s easier to schedule and cancel than schedule later on.  I know a LOT, LOT can happen in the next ten weeks, but I’m not going to lie, it’s a tad disappointing/scary thinking I will/could go all the way until July 21.  That feels like FOREVER.  I guess we will just have to see how things go….of course I’m thrilled to be doing well, but I was really hoping for early to mid-July delivery…. This is TMI….but for those curious….the “doing so well” really comes from cervical length which is measured at every appointment for twins.  That’s a HUGE determining factor for pre-term labor/bed rest/etc. and according to my doctor mine should win an award for being so long at this point….ha, how can you not laugh at that?  

 

I really don’t remember when I started going every two weeks last time, but I start now…which I think may help the time go by faster….next appointment is next Wednesday!

 

Happy Wednesday!

 

xoxo