27 Weeks and Ultrasound

I love seeing my children! If I could have an ultrasound machine in my house I would. Today I am 27 weeks AND we got to see the boys at our 3^rd to last ultrasound! The boys are looking great, if not huge. Cody (Baby A on the bottom) is 2 lbs. 8 oz. and he is head down right now. Zachary (Baby B on the top) is 2 lbs. 12 oz. and he is currently transverse (laying sideways). If he doesn’t move and go head down it will be a c-section for me. He hasn’t moved from that spot since we started the ultrasounds, and there isn’t much space left for him to move around so I’m pretty much thinking c-section.

I’ve started being able to feel the boys move and kick the crap out of my insides. Cody is awake mostly in the morning, during the day and Zach wakes up in the late afternoon and stays awake for most of the evening. I love feeling them kick and move and Brett has had the opportunity to feel the kicking too.

One of the things that  we found out today is that I am 2 cms dilated already. The MFM (basically means high risk) doctor didn’t seem overly concerned, although she certainly didn’t brush it aside either. Both the tech and the doctor seems surprised that I was still working (and that I’m okay with still working) and the doctor said that b/c my job isn’t strenuous on my body, and everything else looks good, she isn’t going to pull me yet. She said that bed rest isn’t necessary yet, that she feels that would be overly cautious. Which says to me that next month is most likely going to be different. We’ll just have to play it by ear and see what happens!

We have our next ob/gyn appointment next week and I believe it will be every other week from that point on, so they will be able to monitor everything with those appointments as well. Luckily, I was able to (finally) find a doctor in my practice who understood exactly what my gastric bypass surgery was about and that I do not have the ability to process sugar. This defeats the purpose of the glucose test which is to see how your body processes massive amounts of sugar to show if there is an issue with gestational diabetes. Ummmm……I don’t have a stomach…..thank God my husband talked me into badgering the office until I found a doctor who agreed with me that the glucose test would be a pointless way of sending me to the hospital. I just had to do blood work instead, most of which I had already been doing, monitoring my blood sugar since I got pregnant.

Other than that, the boys’ room is getting there, it looks so sweet already!! Brett and I are getting as ready as we can be. The shower is this month too!! I’m super excited to be able to see a lot of people I don’t usually get to see.