35 weeks!

Well, I don't have lots of news for you. Babies will be measured for size next week - or so the plan goes! They didn't measure me today either . . .possibly trying to avoid a traumatic experience? : )

Here is the latest.

Our little girls have been squirmy. So squirmy, in fact, that they have BOTH gone transverse on me. So that means, unless they continue their circling of my womb, we are a definite c-section.

I have mixed feelings about the news. It's not my ideal. It wouldn't have been my first choice at all. But I feel a level of surrender with it, that I didn't have even a month ago.

I told Ryan, even just a month ago, I think the news would have hit me a lot harder as I tried to manage more of how everything was going to turn out. But as the pregnancy has continued to progress, God has let me surrender a little more control with each week. It doesn't help me to fight something that is totally beyond my grasp. So at this point, I'm thankful to live in a time where I have so many options and such great medical care. Laboring two transverse babies 100 years ago does not sound fun!

There is a tiny measure of relief that I don't have to play the "what if" game and try and make the decision myself. With the babies' previous positions, we were in a "first baby is a go, second baby is a maybe" state for a vaginal delivery. So to have God just remove the decision process from me, I can see as a blessing. Although, I"m not completely unwilling to accept prayers that both babies could move into a position for a vaginal birth. : ) But we'll take what comes and know that God goes with us either way.

Babies have dropped . .. which has made life a little more interesting as sitting, bending and just moving in general has reached another degree of difficulty . . .or even humor I suppose! The other night I was taking my sweet time going up the stairs and Ryan looks at me, grins, and just goes up and down our second landing 3 times fast just to be obnoxious. I guess it pays to laugh - right?!

And as of today per Dr. Nord, babies will most definately be making their appearance no later than the first week of March. So anyone whose guess took me past 37 weeks, I think you're out of luck. : ) It seems unreal how close that is and makes the hard days easier to push through.

Thanks for all your prayers!

OH! - and thanks, too, for all of you that prayed we could make it past Ryan's crazy past month at work. I'm convinced that it was your prayers, some great sitters/family and a live-in maid/playmate last week (aka, grandma), that made it go as smoothly as it did.

It was such a huge answer of prayer, for me too, that Ryan didn't have the added stress of a wife on complete bedrest or new babies to juggle on top of it all. It'll still be a little busy the next month or so, but nothing like it was. So thanks for caring enough to pray, ask how it was going and checking in!