28 Weeks

Much of my life seems to revolve around babies right now and their impending arrival. I'm afraid I've become a very boring blogger due to it since I continue to remain preoccupied with all of life and what is taking place within rather than without. Appointments have now gone to every two weeks. The closer it gets the more I find myself unable to concentrate on much of anything else besides children's daily routines, a clean house and....babies. I think my heart has longed for this for so very long that I find it hard to contain the excitement over what is to come. The excitement and lightheartedness within the family is contagious as the children realize we do not have very much farther to go.

Despite the fact I've only picked at food over the past week due to being sick with some stuff I somehow managed to put on another 5 lbs in only 2 1/2 weeks.

And I discovered today why I have just cause in feeling a bit like an oversized load at this point. Despite the fact I usually measure behind with single babies and measured right on with my gestational weeks with twins I think my uterus remembered all too well what is required of it when there are two in there. Instead of trying to hold it in even slightly it just gave in and gave babies all the room they need at an earlier date. At a grand 28 weeks I am measuring 24 cm in fundal height.....the farthest ahead I've measured this pregnancy, I think....and 6 cm farther ahead than I ever did with Garrison and Grant. My growth record with this twin pregnancy goes something like this..

12 wks - 10 cm in fundal height

16 wks - 17 cm

21 wks - 23 cm

22 wks - 25 cm

25 wks - 28 cm

28 wks - 34 cm

That's 6 cm of growth in a little less than 3 weeks. Needless to say, babies are both growing and thriving. Positions could also be responsible for some of the drastic increase in size due to the fact the babies are a bit "stacked" at this point. It was finally determined that Baby A is still very much head down though B is lying at an angle with possibly head on my left hip and butt in my right rib cage, therefore crossing over the top of A. It was never really determined as to whether he is head up or down, as defining body parts with 2 is proving to be a bit difficult at this stage.

This is such an amazing journey. I suppose I just always assumed a second twin pregnancy would be about like the first....just so much more enjoyable since I did not have the medical profession scaring the crap out of of me for 20 entire weeks. This pregnancy has been an amazing journey in that regard because we all possess the freedom to just sit back and enjoy the ride, get to know our babies and love this growing time instead of obsessing over what might go wrong. But the differences between the pregnancies are an amazing thing also. I could not even get a positive test until a week later than normal for any pregnancy, I stayed horrifically sick the entire first 14 weeks when I never suffered in the least with any sort of of sickness with our 1st set of twins, and even now, babies do not lay in vertical side by side positions but criss cross...and do things I never experienced the first time around.

This is still such a surreal journey. To know that two beautiful, amazing little boys await us at the end of this journey. To know that the end of this pregnancy is the beginning of a life of raising twin boys again. What joy there is in what God has given us in our 8 children and what amazing joy there is in these two little lives growing within. We are indeed very, very blessed.