It seems that we are nearing the end of the twin's pregnancy. Kristen is at 35 weeks and 3 days and we have a Cesarean scheduled for December 28th (36 weeks and 5 days). Alex, the first baby who would be born, is breech which means a vaginal birth is not an option (if the second baby was breech, it could be). Kristen has been on contraction preventing drugs (ibuprofen and now nifedipine) for a while now, but she has needed higher doses and they have not been working as well as time goes on. Last night, her contractions were very different and she went to the hospital to be checked out and ended up spending the night. Everything seems okay, but during the ultrasounds, they measured a very low heartbeat on Alex and wanted to monitor her all night to make sure they babies were not in distress.
We have another scheduled appointment with the doctor this Thursday at which point Kristen will probably stop taking the contraction preventing drugs and we'll "see what happens".
Here are a couple of ultra sound pictures from last week. We don't really see a lot in these pictures anymore. Just a lot of baby parts. The foot has the toes on the right and you are forgiven if you can't make out the ear. The foot is 8 cm long.
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Evan's foot
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| Alex's ear |
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