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Hopper - I’m sure that’s been scary and stressful the past few days!! I’m glad you’re home and are trying to take it easy. I made DH do most of the school drop offs/pick ups towards the end too bc I was just so big and exhausted, I couldn’t handle it!!
34 weeks is a great goal - and hopefully they’ll stay in even longer! When I reached 34 weeks and things started getting stressful with my cervix all the doctors and nurses kept telling me that 34 weeks was great for twins & that if they were born then they would do great! And even at 32 weeks which you basically are now the risks of long term issues goes WAY down! So no matter what these babies are going to do great!! The steroid shots will help too IF they do come soon!
And yay for both babies being head down! You should be a great candidate for delivering both vaginally!! The whole needing a csection after vaginally delivering baby A had me really really freaked out too - it’s a possibility but like you said it only happens 4% of the time! When I was waiting for HOURS for baby b to come out after baby a was born (it was 5 hours total between them), I was sure we were headed for a csection, but baby b was never in distress so it was ok to just wait and continue to labor until we FINALLY coaxed him out! I had to push and push while nurses pushed on my abdomen to get him to move down into the birth canal - gravity did not work for us lol!!!
One thing to consider if you have them vaginally is if you don’t have an epidural and they do need to do an emergency csection, they may not have time to give you the epidural or a spinal and they’d have to put you under general anesthesia so you’d be asleep for the birth. Docs here really recommend getting an epidural for that reason. Just something you might want to ask your doc about!
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