We are 28 weeks.  If you go by my dr saying the average delivery is 35 weeks and the perinatologist saying that I won’t be allowed to go beyond 38, that means I have 7-10 weeks left.  I honestly don’t know where I will put these boys in the meantime.  The amount of stretch marks I have is amazing to me.  They are concentrated on my lower right.  The last time I had a quick scan to verify two heartbeats, they were both head down, with their heads to the right.  You would think they would try to be a bit more coniderate and even the marks out, but no.

Sleep is getting very difficult and uncomfortable.  The thing that is funny about it is, I am pregnant with twins and can make it through the night without having to go pee.  Ben is getting up at least once at night to go.  The times I wake up when he gets up to go, I just lie there giggling to myself about it.

Trying to roll over in bed is a huge production.  It’s also very noisy.  I can’t believe how much huffing and puffing I’m doing.  I didn’t do all this stuff with Becca.  I understand that there are two, but it’s still relatively early.

My ultrasound with the perinatologist is tomorrow morning.  I’m guessing the boys will be about 2.5 lbs each.  We will see. That’s 5 lbs of baby, two placentas and two baby’s-worth of amniotic fluid I’m carrying around.  This might explain why my belly feels so heavy when I stand up.

I also have itchy hands.  I mentioned this at my last dr appt.  He had apparently never heard anyone complain of this.  In the evenings, my palms start to itch.  Sometimes my feet kick in as well.  It’s a muscular type of itch.  It is not easy to scratch your palms.  It lasts for hours and drives me nuts.  The dr said I could take benedryl for it.  It seems to help.  Thanks goodness I’m not having it much during the day.  I’m not sure if the benedryl is helping because it relieves the itch, or it knocks me out.

I am about at the point of hitting the wall.  I can’t make it through the grocery store without my belly aching and being out of breath.  Taking a shower and getting dressed leaves me ready for a nap.  And I have a shower seat to rest while I’m taking the shower.  Friends can call me up, I answer, and they want to know what the heck I’ve been doing to be so out-of-breath.  The sad part is, its only picking up the phone.

7 to 10 weeks.