Update on the girls...

We had yet another routine ultrasound this morning to check on the girls.

Both babies look great, although one might consider them heifers, given their weight gain in the past two weeks!

Mommy is doing well, too... I'm up to a 23 pound weight gain (which to me sounds like a lot, but to the midwife sounds "perfect" for where I'm at in this pregnancy). My blood pressure was a nice 110 over 68, which they were also happy with. And my fundal height (height of the uterus) measured 35 cm, which is equal to (a singleton's) 35 weeks pregnant. (Tomorrow will mark week 30 of this pregnancy).

Baby A is still very, very low in my uterus, although she has turned from breech to transverse (her head is on my left side and her feet are on my right side). Her heart rate was a strong 133 beats per minute and she weighed in at a (very) healthy 3 pounds, 8 ounces, which is up one pound and five ounces from two weeks ago! At this rate, if I go full term, she'll weigh more than 8 pounds at birth!

Baby B is also doing very well... she is also very, very low in my uterus (I'm told neither of them will get any higher so I should just get used to the constant pressure on my cervix). She, too, is transverse (her head is also on my left side and her feet are on my right side. Her heart rate was a strong 138 beats per minute and she weighed in at a (very) healthy 3 pounds, 7 ounces (up one pound, one ounce from two weeks ago).

Both girls are now in the 90th percentile for weight (they are measuring about a week and a half ahead of schedule, which is very unusual for twins... but not a bad thing!). They don't show any signs of readiness to be born yet (which is also not a bad thing!). The midwife asked me if I was really, really wanting a VBAC (vaginal birth after c-section) and I said no, it didn't really matter to me. She said that she would highly recommend a repeat c-section seeing as how the girls are both transverse now (and she doesn't think they'll change position any time soon). She said that we could schedule a c-section for sometime around 39 weeks (!) if I haven't gone into labor on my own by that time.

It's hard to believe that these girls will just keep gaining (and gaining and gaining) more weight... As it is right now, I feel an (almost) constant pressure on my cervix. I have moments where it feels like they will just fall out of me -- and I can only imagine what it will feel like once they both hit 6 or 7 lbs each! I've also been having frequent Braxton-Hicks contractions ("practice contractions") but the midwife assures me they're nothing to worry about at this point.

We are scheduled for another ultrasound (and another prenatal appointment) for two weeks from today.