Well, my appointment was supposed to be on Monday but we had to reschedule for today. Nick was home on Monday due to a snow day and my OB was home with his snowbound kids too. Isn't he great? What OB does that???
So, today was a quick one. I've just started my 2 week appointments. I'm up 2 lbs from 2.5 weeks ago. BP was high 133/88 but has been the entire pregnancy. I don't know why I would have white coat syndrome, but I do. My last bp at home was 105/56ish. Oh well. I can't explain it.
So, I'm measuring the same as a singleton mother at 36 weeks. That would explain why I've gotten the comments lately. I was at Macy's and this lady assumed I was near term, I told her I was due in early March. She looked at me kind of funny and asked if I knew what I was having. I said "twins". She then says "Oh, that's why you're so huge!" Ummm, excuse me? Apparently her daughter is also pregnant with twins and she's huge as well. Nice... My friends have all said I look small. Plus, I don't feel very big. Whatever. I have a great friend who tells me I keep getting smaller everywhere except my belly. I
really love her.
So, my OB proceeds to tell me that my weight gain is excellent! I've gained 24 lbs in almost 30 weeks with twins. I feel pretty good about it. I think my last OB mentioned my weight (in a not-so-positive light) when I was pregnant with Carter and I cried all the way up until my next appointment. Plus, I barely gained anything with that pregnancy. Jerk.
So, Dr. H tells me that if I go into labor around 35 weeks they will do a half-hearted attempt to stop labor with maybe a little terb and if that doesn't work they will deliver. I can't believe I only have 6-8 weeks left of this pregnancy. It really hasn't been hard at all.
My OB also did an u/s and the babies were both transverse. Baby A (our girl) was no longer vertex (head down) and was now laying with her head to my left and her legs to my lower right. Baby B (our boy) is laying in the exact same position a little bit higher. Their little heads were right next to each other. It was cute. He attempted to show me my little ones on 3D/4D but they are so big now it was just jumbled baby parts everywhere. It was really cute seeing the little feet kick though.
Anyway, I am back to the Perinatal Center on the 29th for another U/S and maybe a cervical length but probably not b/c I haven't been showing any signs of labor. Then I get to see my favorite OB right afterwards. I would possibly bring Carter to that appointment (like I did today) but they don't allow out-of-womb children in the Perinatal Center. I'm so proud of Carter for being sooo good today. He did draw lots of attention being so well behaved and the faux-hawk hair style drew a bit of attention as well.
So, all good news today and I'm really looking forward to being a mama to these sweet children. But, just not yet...
