I can no longer see my feet

When I look down my feet have gone!

I propped them up, to make sure they are still there.






It is truly remarkable how much my body has grown in the last two weeks which isn't surprising because apparently each babies weight has doubled in the last two weeks and now weighs about 3.5 ounces! The crown-to-rump length each baby is 4.4 to 4.8 inches. If you spread your hand out opened wide, you can see about how big each one is!

I have noticed that my gums bleed a bit apparenly some people's nose bleeds occasionally. This is from the increased blood volume that puts pressure on small blood vessels and capillaries.

This week my little ladies will be pleased for the only time in their lives that fat begins to form and will continue to do so until they are born. Fat is important to the body's heat production and metabolism. Each placenta is continuing to grow at an amazing rate. The placenta will continue to develop in tandem with the fetus and it will weigh more than a pound at birth! By this week, the placenta is large and well established with a network of blood vessels that exchange nutrients and waste.

Consultant Cockerell

The first time we met her was for our 14 week scan, she has renewed my faith in the Rosie, she was training a young Dr called Sade, she was patient, informative, kind and funny.
So a welcome change from the previous sonographer. Which is a relief because the appointments are an hour long.
She tested the nuchal translucency our risk of Downs was something like 1:136 because of my age ethnicity etc, and higher because of triplets! and I said that Richard and I had discussed it and we would leave with what were given, (I know I was still feeling sensitive about the "why don't you get rid of one or two" of them remarks from John, Richard's father), she was cool about it and said we only needed to talk about things if we needed to talk about things so didn't give me a complete get out of jail free card. As it is the risk went down massively :-) :-) :-)




Something like 1:869. I couldn't have been happier. Obviously there are still many risks. But that one is less. AC also told me to stop worrying about eating more, I guess I have reserves LoL. The babies are all the right size, they will be monitored alot for Twin to Twin transfusion syndrome, where one identical gets all the nutrients and the other withers. They feel healthy enough. I feel them move it feels like an alien abduction!

Look at the size of my tummy

Yesterday my tummy got as big at the bottom as it is at the top. I am slowly finding that I can't get my trousers done up and my jumpers are riding up because my boobs are bigger.

Apparently the triplets are the size of peaches!

This is all good news :-)
I am still terrified because everything I read tells me of impending doom, but I am happy as can be.

I haven't written much recently because I have been feeling terrible. I have had a headache for over two weeks now. And sickness has got worse. Which is weird because the second trimester is where you are meant to start feeling "blooming" I feel like a bag of rusty spanners, but happy :-)
Although since being back at school I have been very tearful. I guess that is the hormones.

Although the misery did start after the trip to the ante natal at the Rosie, what an awful place.
The place is full of people jingling change for thier photographs and people pacing and jingling their keys looking menacing.
We went for a nuchal scan but they made a mistake with the booking and said they could only do a dating scan, which I had already explained was pointless.
The sonographer was a bitch from hell. I had to ask her to turn the aircon off. I told her that my bare belly covered in gel was really cold she told me "that will be the aircon and just carried on tapping on her computer". She was really brusque very difficult to understand, some sort of East Asian accent and she kept saying really awful things but wouldn't explain what she meant.


So "still alive" was one of her gems, I was really upset.
She told me that one of the babies T1 as she numbered it is sitting in the neck of my womb, the consultant was more straight with me and explained I might need a stitch in my uterus to keep the baby in.

Well I hope that they will look after me better than they have so far.
I am really understanding why people "go private"; the sad thing is I had such a good feeling about the Rosie, perhaps I just expected too much!