I've made it to 32 weeks with this pregnancy.
At this point, if I go into labor, I go to the hospital, they try to
stop the labor for 48 hours, during which time they give me steroids to
help artificially mature the babies' lungs, and then they let me go into
labor again.
If I make it to 34 weeks before I go into labor, the lungs should be
mature enough that no such intervention will be necessary. So, I'm
hoping I make it another 2 weeks, anyway.
If I make it to 36 weeks, chances are that neither baby will have to
spend time in the NICU and they ought to both be able to go home with
me, which would probably be best for everyone involved.
For twins, 37 weeks is considered "full term". 38 weeks is the point at
which they intervene to cause birth one way or another. I think I'd
just as soon go into labor sometime between 36 1/2 weeks and 37 1/2
weeks.
At my checkup yesterday, there hadn't been any significant change since
last week that would indicate I might give birth in the next couple of
weeks, so that's good. (The only real changes noted were my weight,
which went up some, and how big my uterus is from bottom to top, which
went up about 1 cm.) Everything else had been fairly stable for the
past 2 weeks, so I'm in decent shape for still being pregnant for
awhile.
(The only problem is that each week I'm more and more uncomfortable, and
more and more fatigued. And this past week, one of the babies has
decided to park a rump in the same spot that Sammy liked to park his in
the last couple of months of *that* pregnancy, and that spot really
doesn't appreciate it. But hey, at most it's 6 more weeks.)
Julia
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