20 Week Milestone! And our "eviction" time.

This week I hit another small milestone. I will officially not miscarry these twins. I can now go to labor and delivery with any complications and they will take me seriously and not call it a "threatened miscarriage". Good grief I'm so tired of having the diagnosis of "threatened miscarriage" this pregnancy!

I had my first real pregnancy related breakdown this weekend. I had a huge craving for an apple fritter with ice cream. Well I couldn't find one with ice cream but I did find a plain apple fritter. I got in line to buy it and Jared told me that the line was too long and we will get something later. I was angry but my anger was manageable because I asked if we could go get donuts later and he said yes. Problem solved right? Nope. We drove home donutless, then we went out to eat and drove home again without a donut. When I realized we wouldn't be getting a donut on the way home I lost it! I cried for two hours about this stupid donut. Jared came over and asked what was wrong and I tried to come up with all these great explanations of why I was crying, but it was all lies, so I finally said "I want a donut and you didn't get me one". Poor guy, he tried not to laugh and did a great job looking like he felt sorry for me, but the situation of me crying over food was probably very hilarious. With me being pregnant with twin girls I think I did pretty good making it 20 weeks without crying,especially with the stress of this high risk pregnancy, but the donut was just too much. Don't mess with a girl and her donut!!!!! :)

I saw my doctor today and got some big news, these babies probably won't be October babies. My doctor told me that he feels like there is no reason to leave the twins in past 36 weeks and so he wants to schedule a csection at 36 weeks, but he thinks that they will be here between 35 and 36 weeks due to me going into labor on my own. He told me that he will let me vbac if I go into labor, but he won't induce, he wants an automatic csection at 36 weeks and I'm very happy with this decision. I didn't want to be induced with a twin vbac and I feel like a csection is much safer for the babies than pitocin given their single placenta. As I have mentioned before, with a single placenta the benefits of getting the babies out as soon as possible far outweigh the risks of an early delivery. Fraternal twins or didi twins should be allowed to deliver at full term, and those are the twins you see most often since they make of 75% of all twins conceived. So 36 weeks is September 30th. There is a big chance that we will go a few days past 36 weeks because Centerpoint has a mandatory NICU time before 36 weeks so I don't want to do a csection before September 30th unless there is a way for me to get around that stupid NICU rule.

I have had a lot of cramping lately, but I guess that is normal stretching. It sure is annoying though. I never know what's normal and what's dangerous. I had an ultrasound last Monday and they checked my cervical length to make sure the cramping wasn't causing me to thin out. With pressure my cervical length was 3.8cm so that's awesome! The babies fluid levels were 5.0cm and 4.5cm and they are measuring at 19 weeks and 19 weeks 4 days. I don't like that one baby is measuring 4 days ahead, but the other one is still measuring exactly on target so I guess one twin just had a growth spurt. We had my anatomy scan that day as well and my mfm said that as of right now he sees nothing wrong developmentally with the twins. We get anatomy scans every 4 weeks and regular fluid scans every other week. I love that these babies are so well monitored, it makes me feel so much more relaxed about everything. This week will be a little hard because I don't get another scan until next Monday and I am interested in seeing what the fluid levels are doing. I can't get it out of my head that one twin is measuring ahead so I will feel so much better when I know for sure that the larger twin isn't starting to get extra blood. I talked to a man from the Fetal Health Foundation about the growth of the twins and he said that it sounds like the mfm just made an error in one of the measurements because the scan showed them both weighing 9oz.

20 weeks

Babies are the size of bananas

I had someone at Carters tell me I don't look big enough to be 20 weeks with twins. Is she trying to kill me?! I don't know how big people expect me to be, but I have just started the growth phase of pregnancy. If I were any bigger I would be in BIG trouble later on.