I love going to work. It's the only thing that helps the anxiety that has sprung up in the past two weeks. You see, with the twins, at this point I would have already been in the hospital for over 2 weeks. I go to work for my weekly cervical length and for my coworkers to "talk me down" from the ledge of going insane. This anxiety will die once I hit 28 weeks... but things have been NORMAL so far! Cervix still measures nice and long ...over 5cm (that's length, NOT dilation!) with no internal funneling.
Yesterday Caroline measured in at one pound even....it's crazy to me that she is only 10oz away from Alex's birth weight! One of the things I've been really focused on this pregnancy is gaining some weight myself. I'm not a big eater by nature so I've been force feeding myself for 5 months now. I'm up 19 pounds from my baseline weight. ...I only gianed 10 pounds with the twins and THAT was even hard.
The OB I see is actually one of the docs in our practice...this means she is also my friend, boss, and has seen most of the drama in my life that the past 3 years has produced. She also got a front row seat to my last pregnancy. We has a discussion a few days ago about what went wrong with the twins. Niether of us think I had a true incompetant cervix. Plus, if I did, it should "show itself" on ultrasound before 24 weeks. I have a cercalge because it wasn't worth the risk of being wrong about that. Plus, I feel better knowing my cervix is stiched shut and I won't birth Caroline in the middle of Walmart. My doc really thinking that all the preterm labor was really because there was somthing wrong with the pregnancy and my body was trying to have a miscarriage. I've read that path report on the twin's placentas after birth and it was horrible. Lets just say with those placentas I'm suprised they got to 26 weeks at all. It's nice to have a normal pregnancy and I pray it continues and I do get to go to work!
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