The Dinner Table Awaits!!!

At UCSD anyone with a multiple pregnancy has to go get a growth scan done on the babies every four weeks, basically just to make sure everything is in check and to make sure that one baby isn't growing at an alarmingly faster rate than the other.  It's done at the same office where they do the 18-20 week detailed anatomy scan for a single pregnancy so the ultrasound machines are high-tech and even have the 3D/4D capability which is cool to see (IF you have a cooperative baby!).

I was looking forward to this appointment because, for one, it gets me out of the house!!!!!, and also because we get a weight estimate on the boys.  Overall, everything looks good with both babies.  They are weighing in at 3lb 9oz and 3lb 12oz.  I think it was Baby A who was a few oz bigger.  They both have "good size" heads ("Schneider head", I'm sure) and their hearts are looking beautiful.  They also do a cervix measurement-- which was measuring about 7 or 8mm today.  Very short...but at least it's consistently short, right? :)    After the tech gets all the images, the perinatologist (a high-risk prenatal doctor) on staff that day comes in and goes over everything.  Today it was Dr. Kelly-- he is this awesome and very chill doctor who we know from back when pregnant with Chloë (who had enlarged, bright kidneys in utero).   He's just always so upbeat and positive--you can't help but love him.  He basically, said, "Well, you don't have much cervix left and who knows how long it will hold out.  You could go in the hospital if you are more comfortable there (NO THANKS!) but you've already had the 2nd round of steroid shots so there isn't much else they can do except attempt to stop contractions if you start having them." He thought it was totally fine to just continue at home and then asked if I was at least eating meals at the table--which I replied that I was not--and he said I should at least do that!  He also thought it was perfectly fine for me to go sit outside in the yard for a couple hours a day if I wanted to try it!  I was over the moon to hear this!  I can't even tell you!  Obviously, he's not my main doctor, and he's not the UCSD Multiples Clinic specialist that Dr. Schrimmer is, but I loved what he said! He just said to start slowly and to make sure I go back to resting if I start having contractions or am uncomfortable.  So tonight I will eat dinner at the table!  This will be the first time in over 7 weeks!  I might have to get a picture of this momentous occasion.

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30 1/2 weeks

Baby B profile shot

Baby A profile shot