31 weeks

Had an appointment today with my OB, I'm measuring 37cm at 31 weeks, so essentially my uterus is the size of a 37 week singleton pregnancy which is normal, but gonna start getting really uncomfortable probably from here on out!  Also had a sono which is routine in twin pregnancy to make sure they're both growing equally and they are. A is about 3lbs 14oz and B is about 3lbs 12oz. That's almost 8 pounds of baby already! Not to mention 2 placentas and 2 bags of water! No wonder my belly's getting so heavy. 7 more weeks, 7more weeks, 7 more weeks. And that's ok I want healthy babies I don't want them to have to spend any time in the NICU. I want them to go home with their daddy's happy and healthy!
Work is definitely getting harder though but I'm really hoping to push through and tough it out till I deliver. I've always worked up till delivery with all my pregnancies and I know this ones different, but I think I can do it. I know my charge nurses try their best to take it easy on me, but Sometimes, in LDR there's no such thing as taking it easy on anyone! If you can't do the job get out of the way because an emergency in LDR isn't a "shuffle your feet" kinda emergency. We have 2 lives on the line and we want both to be safe and healthy in the end!  So we run and we even have to sometimes push people out of the way to keep the patient safe!  We leave our hands in vaginas for what seems like forever and lie under a surgical drape until were told to move. (Which by the way is really difficult pregnant). We turn patients who are sometimes (a lot of times) morbidly obese who can't move because they are numb from their epidurals. A lot of time in a hurry because heart tones are down and while calling the dr on the phone and turning off medicine and putting on oxygen all somehow at the same time!  It's a lot of work when you're not pregnant, but a lot more when you are!  But again worth every minute to be there when someone gets to meet their little miracle they've been waiting so long for!  Sometimes years, and sometimes during those years with very little hope that it would ever actually happen for them, but there he/she is in their arms crying and pink and perfect and it was all worth it!  And that's why I do what I do, not just the labor and delivery nurse, but the surrogacy!  Why should these couples who have tried so desperately for so long, or who can't conceive because they are both men be denied such a basic right as being a parent?  I see people come in pregnant who don't care about the life growing inside of them, they smoke, drink, do drugs and sometimes even call their baby names because that's how little they care about it. It's not fair for those who try for years and get nothing. Who just want a baby they don't care even if it's the woman's who did meth her whole pregnancy, they just want to be a parent and to give their love to that child who otherwise wouldn't get it!  That's why surrogacy is important to me and adoption for that matter, and I'm so glad that my mind and body are able to provide this surrogacy for these men, and maybe in the future another couple??  Till next time. :)