Today was the usual ultrasound, non-stress-test routine at the hospital. The ultrasound went pretty well. While the size discrepancy between the twins is widening somewhat, my little girl is still growing. The past several checks, she had gone up just about a half pound (8 oz) over the course of two weeks. This time, she was up 12 oz to 3lb, 4oz. Not an enormous growth spurt, I suppose, but a good thing nonetheless. Her brother keeps packing it on, putting on yet another 16 oz to reach 4lb, 9oz. He is still vertex, she is still breech, and they are both way the heck up in my ribcage. As I am nearly 32 weeks, today also marked my last cervix check via ultrasound. Just like at my very first appointment with the perinatologist, 14 weeks ago, Iron Cervix is holding steady at an absolutely ridiculous 4.3cm. That’s kind of insane for even a singleton pregnancy at this point. But it appears my occasional contractions, combined with a whopping 7lb, 13oz of baby, is having absolutely no effect on my cervix. Guess they’re not intending to make their entrance any time soon. Oh, and another good day for the biophysical profile: plenty of fluid, practicing breathing, good movement, etc.
If I caught the notes correctly, little girl is trailing off in the percentiles race again, but is not yet what you would call growth-restricted. So, we’ll keep on plugging. My peri told me they’d deliver me under any of the following circumstances: baby girl stops growing or falls below the 10th percentile, either of them start to do poorly on the biophysical profile or non-stress tests, or I reach 37-38 weeks. Certainly there are other potential complications out there, but those are the three main things she’s looking for. Depending on the next growth check in two weeks, they also might have me come in for the BPP and NST twice per week instead of once. Presumably that’s if she still isn’t growing all that much and they’ll want to keep an eye on her just in case she starts to show any distress.
Today’s non-stress test also went just fine. Took a while to get them on the monitor, because they kept moving around and kicking the sensors. But eventually we got some good tracking, and the nurse pronounced herself happy with the results. Sounds good to me! My blood pressure seems to be creeping up just a little, but we’ll see how it looks at next week’s OB checkup.
That’s the news that’s fit to print from here. We’re off to a breastfeeding class this evening, which is our final prenatal class. I can’t believe we’re already here!
He, too, was moving around a lot, giving us a bit more trouble finding his heart and other important things. I ended up having to roll over on my left side (he’s on the right) so she could get a better shot of the heart, which was beating even faster than his sister’s (possibly 180 BPM, but it wasn’t as clear). He’s on the right side.
