well, first I have to say I laughed when I saw I had followers. haha, how funny. I (sniffle) feel so loved (sniffle).
Today was our first appt w/ a group health doc. The whole full body exam deal - super fun. As far as I can tell there are ultraound and non-ultrasound appts at group health, and this was a non-ultrasound, except... we had an ultrasound. I didn't ask specifically, but sorta infer/guess that they have a lower quality ultrasound machine which they used today just for fun and will prob use at all non-ultrasound appts. whereas, when I have an ultrasound appt (at 16 weeks) then I think there will be measuring and official-ness happening. But, we saw 2 little guys in there again, so we're still on the twins train. the images were much less clear than at the other clinic; I couldn't see the little guys, much less their heartbeats, but the doc could, and I could certainly see that there were two separate "blobs" (to use a technical term). I got a little printout on emoms (eastside mothers of multiples) and told that I should join that group or another similar multiples group. I also learned that they really recommend that I try for a natural birth and they'll do what they can, but about 2/3 of twins are delivered via c-section. if the first one's breach they can't turn it (but if the second one is then they can turn it after the first one's delivered) and if the first one is much smaller than the second then they don't want the first to come out and then not be able to deliver the second. plus there's lots of preterm labor and fun like that too. sounds like they'll schedule a c-section for 38 weeks (aug 12), but they think I'll prob go in to labor before that. of course, nothing at all is for sure yet, but I just wanted a basic idea of what is "normal" in the case of twins. crazy to think about how very un-normal my life is about to get...
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