Growing Babies

Both babies have grown! Baby A grew from 1lb 11oz to 2lbs 3oz and baby B grew from 1lb 5oz to 1lb 9oz. Baby A is in the 49% for her weight and baby B is in the 23% for her weight. There is a 27% difference between the babies-up from 24% two weeks ago. B is a little peanut still but she is making progress and still on her own growth scale. It is really disappointing because I know that there is still nothing that I can do to help her grow. I'm really upset about it. There is great fluid around the babies. For once they were both super still-which was helpful for the measurements but then for the biophysical part of the ultrasound the babies were snoozing and not moving very much. They did a great job earlier on the first monitoring of the day so they weren't worried about the lack of movement. I will have another growth ultrasound in 2 more weeks on January 27th and I will be 29 weeks. I just got the shot for the first round of steroids to help mature both of their lungs among many other positive things and I will get the second round tomorrow night. This is not because they think delivery is around the corner-they just want to make sure that the babies are ready just in case anything should happen...again, they don't anticipate anything happening soon.

I got some pictures and the 3D pictures are SCARY to say the least! They take a 2D "video" of the baby and the machine puts the 3D picture together based on on the 2D pictures so things look a little scary and each picture looks so different from the next. I like 2D ultrasound profile pictures much better! They were squished together and their legs were tangled up together. They are both head down. Baby A was hiding her face and so baby B gave us a shot of her profile and the scary looking 3D pictures too. I know she will look perfect when she is here in the world! I'll upload pictures soon but I have a shower and a monitoring session calling my name.