(9/27) Prenatal Visit: Different Dr today since mine is on vacation. She has a 4 year old daughter that wants to play hockey, so we had a fun time talking about that. Saw the boys briefly on u/s and A is still transverse/breechy and B is still breech. She commented that I don't look 36 wks pregnant with twins (though I'm still measuring normally). It'll be interesting to see just how big the melons are next week!
(9/28) NST: Yay! Another fast NST! The nurse put the monitors on, the babies stayed on and active and we were done in no time. I had a little (decaf) coffee on the way in. Baby A must just need his coffee in the morning like his mama.
(9/29)
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| 9/29 ~ close enough to 36 wks |
Your baby is still packing on the pounds — at the rate of about an ounce a day. She now weighs almost 6 pounds (like a crenshaw melon) and is more than 18 1/2 inches long. She's shedding most of the downy covering of hair that covered her body as well as the vernix caseosa, the waxy substance that covered and protected her skin during her nine-month amniotic bath. Your baby swallows both of these substances, along with other secretions, resulting in a blackish mixture, called meconium, will form the contents of her first bowel movement. At the end of this week, your baby will be considered full-term. (Full-term is 37 to 42 weeks; babies born before 37 weeks are pre-term and those born after 42 are post-term.) Most likely she's in a head-down position. But if she isn't, your practitioner may suggest scheduling an "external cephalic version," which is a fancy way of saying she'll try to coax your baby into a head-down position by manipulating her from the outside of your belly. See what your baby looks like this week. (Or see what fraternal twins look like in the womb this week.)
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