Week 26

Ten more weeks and I'll be considered full-term!  Not that it means much; I'm still hoping and assuming I'll have these babies closer to 39 weeks than 36 weeks.  But it's nice to be ticking the weeks off, slowly but steadily.

I'm still feeling pretty decent.  The carpal tunnel syndrome is getting worse, and I've started wearing a wrist brace to bed at night.  Sometimes, like last night, it helps.  But other nights I end up tearing it off in the middle of the night because it's actually keeping me from sleeping.

I also started getting a pretty intense pain in my hip this week.  It's not constant, thankfully, but on Thursday and Friday I had some periods of fairly bad pain while walking.   It hasn't returned since, so I'm hoping it's not a new pregnancy symptom.  Maybe I just slept on it wrong, or bruised it somehow. 

But overall, as I was telling my neighbors at a recent get-together, I feel much better than a 6-months-pregnant-with-twins woman has any right to feel!  When I found out that I was expecting twins back in January, I never would have thought that I would feel basically normal at 6 months.  Thank God!  With CC to care for and a constant list of things to do around here, I am extremely grateful to be feeling as well as I do.  Let's hope it continues!

Right now the babies weigh just under 2 pounds each, and are about the size of cucumbers.  Their ears and hearing are developing now, so they can hear me and MJ talking, CC babbling (or, more likely, yelling!), and Rory barking.  They are taking practice "breaths" of amniotic fluid, which we should be able to see on an ultrasound one of these days (I remember seeing CC do this on one of her ultrasounds last year).