31 week check up

I met with Dr. Judd yesterday and I just have to say I love this man. I am so happy Joel was so insistent on having him as our doctor. First off, the babies are doing fine. I will have my next ultrasound next week so we'll get to see for sure how our little ones are doing but their heart rates are 142 for Scarlett and 136 for Isaac. Dr. Judd said he felt a head down at the bottom of my belly so for now I don't think "baby A" is breech anymore. I told Dr. Judd that the one thing I am not interested in is delivering one baby and then having a c-section for the second and he said, "me either. And after delivering 750+ sets of twins I have never had to do that and don't plan on doing it now." What a relief! That was my biggest fear and now I don't really have a fear. We're pretty much getting past the danger zone and the contractions have decreased significantly since I was put on the Niphedipine. Dr. Judd also said that water is mostly likely to break with twins and since that is how I went into labor with Miles, we can guess pretty well that around 35-37 weeks my water will break and that is how this pregnancy will end. Joel and I feel so blessed that we've been able to do so much and that in the mean time our babies have stayed in and healthy. They're both very active and I don't think a day goes by when we don't see or feel these little ones bouncing around in my tummy. We're anxious to meet them and have them to play with!
One more piece of awesome news. I think I blogged that earlier this month when my contractions were pretty strong the advice was to take a really hot bath to help control the contractions. No problem! I do it at least once a week now whenever I have a couple of contractions...just to be safe. ;D It's a nice little bonus since I don't get to go in the "hot tub". Well, yesterday Joel thought he was gonna tell on me for eating the little orange fish eggs the last time we went out for sushi. (I, of course, just had tempura and rice and a few fish eggs). Well, to both of our surprise the dr said, "Oh sure, that's no big deal. That's just basically salt. In fact, as far as I'm concerned having sushi once in a while is fine too. Just don't do it every day." My eyes popped wide open and I was happier than a child on Christmas morning. Seriously, having the knowledge that I can have sushi once in awhile and don't have to abstain for 9 months is so awesome. Needless to say, we're going out for sushi this week!

The picture above is from Body Worlds. It is a 31 week old fetus and apparently when Miles saw it he said, "that's in my mama's tummy."