Tomorrow (Saturday) will mark 33 weeks into the pregnancy. This past Wednesday we had our most recent growth scan. We didn't get any new pictures because the sonogram machine was all blurry.. However! We did get new weights and the babies are growing very nicely!
Baby A (girl) is weighing in at 4 lbs and Baby B (boy) is in at 3 lbs 14 oz. They are very nicely on track for their gestational age and they are looking wonderfully healthy.
Contrary to popular belief, not all twins are born incredibly early and not all twin pregnancies are induced at 38 weeks. (This seems to be popular belief among society, not our friends and family specifically.) So I (Sarah) am here to tell you that 1. These babies aren't expected at this time to come early and 2. my doctor has no plans to induce labor until 40 weeks and 1 day. The only thing that would change #2 is if a health concern arises - which Doctor doesn't see happening for any reason. The three of us are very healthy and growing nicely, on track, etc, leaving no reason to induce or c-section early. I only am telling you this so that you are aware that the twin-hype that is out there is mostly just that - hype.
That all aside, we are bearing down for Hurricane Irene. We are expecting to be hit - hard - tomorrow (Saturday) evening and all day Sunday. We are prepared and Stefanie is heading to an evac center as a volunteer to work overnight (as requested of many city employees).
Hope you are all staying safe and dry if in the path of what is predicted to be one of the worst storms in decades!
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