33w, 4d

Yeah I'm lame. Christmas night and I'm blogging. Had my u/s Monday. One baby is still big, measuring at the 74th percentile. The other baby has dropped down to the 34th percentile. Had my dr appt on Thursday. Told me they were starting to be concerned. They sent me for a NST. I think I'm just going to take up residence at the hospital each Monday now. Starting this Monday and repeating every Monday I'll have an u/s, a NST, and a dr appt. They want to keep an eye on the growth and check out umbilical cord bloodflow to make sure the little baby is still better off inside or if I should deliver.

The open, infected part of my incision is healing well. However, a second infected area opened up earlier this week. At my appt on Thursday the dr snipped it open a little more with scissors to make sure it could drain properly. Good times. The nurse showed up today at my family's Christmas celebration. During the course of her packing my wound, I discovered another area that was draining that nasty yellowish liquid. It hasn't opened up yet but must just have enough of a hole to drain stuff. The nurse did a lot of squeezing and I thought I might pass out. Then we had Christmas dinner. After all that I didn't eat much.

There is some slight concern about my blood pressure. Not a problem yet but it has slowly been creeping up. My feet and ankles are incredibly swollen as well.

Just to make it all more fun, I'm pretty sure my mucous plug is slowly falling out. All day after I pee the TP is kinda brownish and mucousy. I told the nurse this and she said I'll probably deliver within 24 hours. I have heard of people not going into labor until weeks after they lose their mucous plug. She said with twins the extra baby weight applies pressure and labor is more immediate. I don't totally believe her. Haven't had any contractions. It does seem that the movement from the one baby is much lower than normal. My mom thought it looked like my belly dropped but I think she's wrong. I'm just glad I made it through Christmas.