Viability

Today was another Dr. appointment and ultrasound.  The "fun" glucose tolerance test was also today.  Yuck!  I know I'm not the only one who doesn't like the nasty, orange glucola you have to swig down in less than 5 minutes.  Getting my blood drawn an hour later was nothing compared to actually drinking that, and I don't like needles!  This marked my 26th week.  In one more week the boys will officially be classified as "viable".  That is such a big milestone for twins and I'm thankful everything is moving along without complications. 

Here are some stats from today's appointment...I now weigh 140lbs.  I'm 26 weeks pregnant and am measuring 31 weeks.  Blood pressure is fine, no swelling and hopefully no gestational diabetes.  The boys now weigh 2lbs each.  They are extremely active and from the ultrasound, we could see that their favorite things to do are kick and punch each other as well as jump on and kick my bladder!  Their womb space is quickly shrinking because they are starting to really fill up any available space there is in there. 

This week the boys have really been active.  I can stare at my belly and see them punch and kick it.  I'm going to have to monitor the movement to see how often they are just being still.  Something tells me it won't be very often!  I spent almost 2 hours at my ultrasound today and after all that time, we still only got one decent picture (of Baby B, as usual) of a face without an arm or hand blocking the whole thing.  It's like they know we want a picture and they are refusing to cooperate.  I don't know that we'll ever get a face shot of Baby A!  I guarantee that will change when they're born and I can hold those appendages out of the way! 

So here is the one picture (Baby B) that turned out from today's appointment...plus the foot of his brother!  Can you see his monkey toes?!

My next appointment is in 2 weeks.  Maybe they'll be more photogenic at that one!