Hospital day, 33w6d

An interesting day, indeed, at the hospital. Today was a growth check with the ultrasound, in addition to the biophysical profile. Both babies passed the BPP, though we had to poke little boy to get him to wake up and move around for us. Weight estimates were encouraging, but interesting… Baby girl appears to have had a bit of a spurt and put on a full pound to reach 4lb4oz. Baby boy actually slowed down and gained only 10oz to reach 5lb3oz. Of course, these are estimates, and can arguably be further off the bigger (and more crowded) the babies get. But still, very encouraging that little miss continues to grow. An unusual twist, however, that her brother is slowing down. He also appears to have a bit less fluid than she does. As the peri said, it’s not as worrisome as it would be if little girl was the one with less fluid, but something to keep an eye on, nonetheless. Non-stress test was just fine, and as of next week, I’m going to actually go in TWICE every week. Good thing I’m done working!

The craziest part of the visit, however, was our discussion of when to deliver. First of all, if I go into labor spontaneously anytime tomorrow or later, they will not attempt to stop me. If it were to peter out on its own, they wouldn’t try to restart it, but they won’t stop me. OK. Wow. And then she said, “so, when do you think we should have these babies? I’m thinking 36-37 weeks.” Whoa!! Used to be 38, then 37-38… now 36? Holy crap! That’s two weeks!!

Basically, the plan is this: I’ll have my twice-per-week BPP and NST. If anything looks concerning, they might decide it’s a good day for a birthday. My next growth check will be in two weeks (August 1, to be precise). If either one of their growth has slowed or stopped? Birthday time. If growth is still good, they’ll schedule me for induction or c-section at right about 37 weeks.

WOW! I can barely wrap my mind around it. Three weeks at the most, possibly two or less. I’m pretty darn excited, but mostly it’s just not sinking in at all.

I’m off to my OB’s office shortly, where we definitely need to have a discussion about delivery method. Baby boy seems to have really taken over at the baby A position, and is head down, so vaginal delivery is an option on the table. We shall see.

Oh, and my blood pressure seemed to be creeping up at the NST today. We’ll see if that issue proves to be the dark horse that determines birthday time. I’ll update after the OB’s office if there are any interesting developments.

OB Update
After talking to my OB, she’s totally cool with me going directly for the c-section. She seemed to think it was probably a good idea in my case. If I change my mind and/or they both flip to vertex, I’m welcome to try for vaginal (if they don’t flip, then only if she’s the one on call, because she’ll do a breech extraction of twin B). But otherwise, she’s going to schedule my c-section for right about 37 weeks! To be moved up if things change, of course. Holy crap!!