28.5 weeks in this pic
•How far along?: 29 weeks
•Total weight gain: 20 lbs
•How big is baby?: The size of an acorn squash!
•Maternity clothes?: I basically live in sweats and Gerry's oversized shirts. I don't fit in anything comfortably anymore.
•Maternity clothes?: I basically live in sweats and Gerry's oversized shirts. I don't fit in anything comfortably anymore.
•Movement: More hiccups. Also retaliation after contractions (More on those a little later)
•Stretch marks?: No one ever told me how sore stretch marks get
•Sleep?: doing surprisingly better this week
•Symptoms?: Heartburn, back pain, rib pain, Braxton Hicks contractions and "real" ones!
•Food cravings: egg salad sandwiches... weird right?
•Belly button in or out?: Off-center outie
•What I miss: Being mobile. Not hurting at my joints.
•What I'm looking forward to: MFM appointment tomorrow! Can't wait to see if babies are still measuring a week ahead and what position they are in (at my OB appointment on Thursday they were both transverse with their heads on my right)
•Milestone: Into single digit weeks left! OB said they would induce at 38 weeks (May 20) if Alice and Colette don't come on their own before that.
•Nursery Progress: Basically just need to hang some stuff on the walls and get a few boxes/bins put away. I am about to write a post with pictures. :)
As promised here is my crazy contractions story:
Friday (3/9) I had braxton hicks (BH) contractions all day. These my doctor said would happen and to call if I had more than 4 an hour for 4 hours straight. I had been taking it easy that day and yet they continued. Toward the evening they got more and more frequent and I started having some painful ones. They were anywhere from 10 to 3 minutes apart. I started freaking out a little but not wanting to call my OB since it was 9:45 on a Friday night. Gerry told me I should at least call. So I did. My OB said go to Labor and Delivery and get checked out. In we went. I think we were the only people there on the L&D floor. They hooked me up to monitors and sure enough I was contracting every 2-3 minutes. Not huge ones but they were uncomfortable. They then did a physical check and an ultrasound to make sure nothing was dilating and everything looked good on that front. No sign that these contractions were putting me into pre-term labor. They then did a fetal fibronectin test. Basically if this test is positive you go into labor typically within that week. Mine was negative. A good thing. My blood pressure was high (because I was stressed I think) and so they decided to monitor the babies for a bit. So first we had to find the babies. Every time the nurse would find one and move on to the next one, babies would move. They were having a hard time getting them on the monitors. Also, Alice, usually our calm child from what we can tell via ultrasound, was so mad. She kept kicking the little sensor and so it had all sorts of misreadings since she didn't want it on. Colette kept trying to hide from her sensor. They had been being squished all day from BH and they were done. After each BH both of them would flail around like crazy. My stomach looked like a water bed.
Monitoring came back good and Dr. said to go home, rest, drink lots of water and come back if I had 6 painful ones in an hour. All day Saturday I continued to have BH and it was annoying. My body was so sore from all the tightening. Then on Sunday we went to church and during Relief Society I had 7 painful contractions in 40 minutes. I started panicking again. Gerry took me home. Filled me with water and put me to bed. I guess I had overdone it. Monday the BH seemed to slow and although I have them occasionally still they aren't too bad anymore.
At my OB appointment the babies were transverse laying with their heads together on my right side. They had been head down and my Dr thinks that this move on their part may have caused the contractions to get out of hand. Anyway, I'm doing better now. Drinking my weight in water and babies are staying put. :)
