29w, 4d
I'm tired all the time. My back hurts. My hands swell up and go down. My feet are swollen all the time. These babies have given up sleep and have decided to kick me all the time instead to the point of it really hurting. I'm hungry but nothing sounds good. I'm thirsty but tired of drinking. I have to pee every 10 minutes. I pee every 10 minutes but that doesn't stop me from peeing myself multiple times a day. My boobs are huge and stuff keeps coming out of them. I bought some breast pads to keep from leaking all over the place when my milk comes in but wasn't expecting to need them now. I have no idea where I put said breast pads. My pelvis hurts. One of the most painful things I have ever experienced happens each time I try to roll over. Ain't pregnancy grand?
My kids were nice enough to give me a cold this week. Colds suck. Colds really really suck when you are knocked up and can't take anything. I was up about every 20-45 minutes the first night the cold hit me.
DH and I signed up for a breastfeeding class at the local hospital (not the one I will be delivering at). It is a two week thing and our first class was early this week. I've been reading a lot on the subject but mostly took the class so someone else could tell DH about all the benefits of breastfeeding and what he can do to support it. We did have a conversation about the subject that involved me telling him that this was something I really wanted to do and listed several reasons why. I thought he should know all this so when the going gets tough and all I want to do is quit, he can remind me of all the reasons to keep going. I try not to make too much of a spectacle of myself but it ended coming up in the class that I am expecting twins. I had the joy of everyone staring at me while I tried to balance two freaky looking baby dolls on top of my giant belly while the two babies in the belly kicked furiously at the creepy plastic dolls.
I had a growth u/s on Wednesday. I took DS1 with me who was completely uninterested. Baby A was estimated to be 3lbs 5oz and Baby B was estimated to be 2lbs 12oz. This put Baby A at the 78th percentile and Baby B at the 48th percentile. First of all, I think it is just insane that any child of mine would even be average in size since I am so short and DH doesn't really have height on his side. The tech said that the difference in size between the babies was fine but I am interested to see what my dr has to say at my appointment on Monday. Three weeks ago Baby A was in the 76th percentile so that hasn't really changed much. Baby B was in the 59th percentile three weeks ago. No idea what this will bring but I won't be the least bit surprised if they start getting concerned about IUGR (inter uterine growth restriction) and poor little Baby B's growth being stunted by Baby A taking over all the room. In my completely uneducated mind, this probably means that if this trend continues over the next couple weeks (Baby B dropping on the growth chart), they might decide to take the babies early just to give Baby B some room to grow. I am really not too concerned about this. It will likely be weeks before the growth becomes and issue. Since I am already almost 30 weeks (and the magical number for twin births is 34 weeks) things will probably be fine, maybe just some NICU time for feeders/growers. If it wasn't clear already, I am really not a fan of this being pregnant thing currently (or ever really) so in a way it it nice to see that maybe, possibly, there is an end in the future.
There really hasn't been much mention of my UU with my medical people for the past few months. Of course we are all aware that it could cause issues still, particularly preterm labor, but my twin pregnancy has been pretty much normal up until this point despite the shape of my uterus. The tech that did my last growth scan commented that that both babies are on the right, which is pretty much how they have been. (I have a right UU.) Baby A is head down toward the center of my hips and his feet are in my right rib cage. Baby B is underneath Baby A with his head down on my right hip bone and his feet up toward my sternum more toward my left ribs (he is oblique, so kinda of crisscrossed in my belly). Oddly, my belly looks symmetrical but it is is easy to tell when touching it that the left side is pretty squishy where the right side is filled with baby parts.
A cousin asked me at Thanksgiving dinner about when I thought I would give birth. I said I am hoping the week after Christmas. That way we can get Christmas out of the way and not have to worry about Christmas + premature babies, and we would make it to the magical 34 week point, and we would be able to cash in on our tax refund this year instead of having to wait until next year. As weird as the world is, I am totally expecting to give birth on December 29th, which would be the anniversary of the surgery to remove my rudimentary horn and the pregnancy that was within it.
My kids were nice enough to give me a cold this week. Colds suck. Colds really really suck when you are knocked up and can't take anything. I was up about every 20-45 minutes the first night the cold hit me.
DH and I signed up for a breastfeeding class at the local hospital (not the one I will be delivering at). It is a two week thing and our first class was early this week. I've been reading a lot on the subject but mostly took the class so someone else could tell DH about all the benefits of breastfeeding and what he can do to support it. We did have a conversation about the subject that involved me telling him that this was something I really wanted to do and listed several reasons why. I thought he should know all this so when the going gets tough and all I want to do is quit, he can remind me of all the reasons to keep going. I try not to make too much of a spectacle of myself but it ended coming up in the class that I am expecting twins. I had the joy of everyone staring at me while I tried to balance two freaky looking baby dolls on top of my giant belly while the two babies in the belly kicked furiously at the creepy plastic dolls.
I had a growth u/s on Wednesday. I took DS1 with me who was completely uninterested. Baby A was estimated to be 3lbs 5oz and Baby B was estimated to be 2lbs 12oz. This put Baby A at the 78th percentile and Baby B at the 48th percentile. First of all, I think it is just insane that any child of mine would even be average in size since I am so short and DH doesn't really have height on his side. The tech said that the difference in size between the babies was fine but I am interested to see what my dr has to say at my appointment on Monday. Three weeks ago Baby A was in the 76th percentile so that hasn't really changed much. Baby B was in the 59th percentile three weeks ago. No idea what this will bring but I won't be the least bit surprised if they start getting concerned about IUGR (inter uterine growth restriction) and poor little Baby B's growth being stunted by Baby A taking over all the room. In my completely uneducated mind, this probably means that if this trend continues over the next couple weeks (Baby B dropping on the growth chart), they might decide to take the babies early just to give Baby B some room to grow. I am really not too concerned about this. It will likely be weeks before the growth becomes and issue. Since I am already almost 30 weeks (and the magical number for twin births is 34 weeks) things will probably be fine, maybe just some NICU time for feeders/growers. If it wasn't clear already, I am really not a fan of this being pregnant thing currently (or ever really) so in a way it it nice to see that maybe, possibly, there is an end in the future.
There really hasn't been much mention of my UU with my medical people for the past few months. Of course we are all aware that it could cause issues still, particularly preterm labor, but my twin pregnancy has been pretty much normal up until this point despite the shape of my uterus. The tech that did my last growth scan commented that that both babies are on the right, which is pretty much how they have been. (I have a right UU.) Baby A is head down toward the center of my hips and his feet are in my right rib cage. Baby B is underneath Baby A with his head down on my right hip bone and his feet up toward my sternum more toward my left ribs (he is oblique, so kinda of crisscrossed in my belly). Oddly, my belly looks symmetrical but it is is easy to tell when touching it that the left side is pretty squishy where the right side is filled with baby parts.
A cousin asked me at Thanksgiving dinner about when I thought I would give birth. I said I am hoping the week after Christmas. That way we can get Christmas out of the way and not have to worry about Christmas + premature babies, and we would make it to the magical 34 week point, and we would be able to cash in on our tax refund this year instead of having to wait until next year. As weird as the world is, I am totally expecting to give birth on December 29th, which would be the anniversary of the surgery to remove my rudimentary horn and the pregnancy that was within it.
Labels: breastfeeding, IUGR, twins, unicornuate uterus, unicornuate uterus twin pregnancy, UU
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