Week 29

Howdy folks! We spent the last night of week 28 and the first day of week 29 over at the hospital. Everything is cool, but Holly was having a lot of contractions, she had 8 in an hour and that was all it took for them to tell us to go in. The cool thing is that our hospital just opened a new wing for women and everything is brand spanking new. We were the first peeps to be admitted and stay in room 4. Woohoo! We left home around 10:30pm and headed to the hospital. Was going to stop for gas, but figured I should probably wait until we head back home.

At the hospital, they took us to the old wing and there was a little chaos there. The new wing had literally just opened and they were still moving stuff between the new and old wings. They finally sent us over to the new wing and it is SNAZZY! Everyone was super cool, it was like they just started their shift and they were all on the top of their game and very nice. It was funny to watch them all trying to find stuff since they were all in the new rooms for the first time and things are all in different places. They hooked up 3 monitors to Holly's jelly-belly. One for each dude and one to monitor the contractions. Holly wasn't making it up...she was having a lot of contractions. Everything checked out fine though and they said a lot of women with small bellies who all of a sudden bust out cause of twins just experience a lot of contractions. We just gotta make sure there is no back pain with it or any other pain.

This post is getting long so I will wrap it up. Kids and mom checked out fine. I found out the new furniture isn't really nice for lying down and long-term rest. We got our picture taken on the way out because we were the first peeps to be discharged from the new wing. I forgot to fill up the truck on the way home at 2:30 in the AM. Note to self: keep the truck filled up and ready to go. Last night was a good dry run.

Week 29:
Babies are growing rapidly now. This week he weighs about 2 1/2 pounds (like a butternut squash) and is a tad over 15 inches long from head to heel. His muscles and lungs are continuing to mature, and his head is getting bigger to accommodate his growing brain — which is busy developing billions of neurons. Every day, about 200 milligrams of calcium is deposited in the baby's skeleton, which is now hardening. With this rapid growth, it's no surprise that the kids' nutritional needs reach their peak during this trimester.