Past Due

I must be bigger than I think I am. Today, while waiting for my u/s appointment, a very pregnant woman next to me asked if I was past due too. Ha! I laughed and told her I had another two months. Once she got over the shock, we talked and shared our experiences, and somewhere in the middle of the conversation I though “Wow…I am sitting here talking about sleeping pillows with a pregnant woman and I am pregnant too.” It never ceases to amaze me.

Not only am I big, apparently I make big babies, too. Naturally, I had Attila the Technician but—surprise, surprise—she was actually kind of nice to me today. First, she measured my cervix, which is still nice and long, holding steady at 3.9mm. Then we moved on to the babies: I asked nicely if I could get pictures and she said “we’ll see.” Well, we’ll see turned into a big no. Baby A is head down again (go Baby A!) but she couldn’t get a good picture of her. Baby B is laying across the top, once again in a T-formation. She is facing the inward, so the transducer only picks up images of her butt and the back of her head. So no pictures for Nicole, who had a meeting in Connecticut and couldn’t attend today’s viewing.

Here’s the amazing part: Baby A is 3 pounds 11 ounces and Baby B is 3 pounds 10 ounces, which is exactly what a singleton at 30 weeks 2 days would weigh! Grow babies grow! At this point they grow about a half-pound a week (I wish I could say the same…). So these could be some big babies! I keep reading and hearing that twin growth slows down in the third trimester, but these babies apparently didn’t get the memo.

I am still sick, but I think I am on the mend. The congestion is clearing, the lethargy is lifting and I am able to stand up for more than a minute without feeling like I need a nap. And I have managed to cut down my nap schedule, too. I hope this is the end of whatever this illness was. Where is the so-called super immune system that some pregnant women get?

Pictured above is my niece playing in one of the new cribs. I still can’t believe that there could be babies in here some time in the next couple of months.