32 Weeks

PICTURE TO BE ADDED LATER

 

 

How Far Along:  32 weeks.

By week 32 of your twins pregnancy your babies are about 12 inches long from crown to rump or a total of 16-17 inches long. Their toenails have grown and their five senses are hard at work.
Up to now babies rate of growth for mothers carrying twins and singletons have been the same.  However, from now on, the rate of growth for twins slows down and differs from singletons.  This is simply due to the fact that you are carrying two babies and there is not much space in there.
 
Total Weight Gain: 174 lbs (about 40 lbs gained...no weight gained for the past 2 weeks)

Sleep: Sleep is getting near impossible.  Both babies move around a lot at night.  I rotate in my sleep to get comfortable, but it's been sore on my pelvis to do so, so I'm never really getting a "good" sleep. Plus, when I sleep on my side I can feel the babies -- which makes it uncomfortable. And I'm still waking up at 2am to take my medicine.

Best Moment This Week:  My cervical length was back to 20 this week.  The doctor didn't seem overly concerned since there was no funneling and I'm at the point were 20 is becoming almost 'normal' for this far along.  Baby A is still breached though.  I've been trying to spend some time at the pool, as he said being submerged would help.  Dr. Paul took me off the Indocin this week and gave me steroids -- 3 pills a day for 3 days. He said the pool would also help reduce the added swelling that the steroids would cause.  He thought he'd have to admit me when he did the steroids, but since I wasn't experiencing a lot of contractions, he sent me home and told me to monitor the contractions myself.

Movement: The boys are actively kicking and rolling around. Can see them move when I look my belly - pretty creepy!

Looking Forward To: My next appointment is Thursday...getting so close!