25 weeks and some randomness

Hi all! I hope wherever you are you're getting some of this great weather that we're getting.  We're a good 20 degrees above normal and our nighttime lows are well above our normal daytime highs.  Add some sunshine to that and I'm a happy girl.  This has been the weirdest winter.  We only had "shovelable" (it's a word) snow once and it was gone by the next day. Crazy.

Anywho.  Today marks 25 weeks!  Yay!  :)  I thought I'd recognize it with some random thoughts that have been going through my head.

• To answer a question posed last week -- MFM is a maternal-fetal medicine specialist or a perinatologist -- basically he specializes in high risk pregnancies.  My MFM used to also do deliveries but now he has two OBs who work with him who do the deliveries.  (As my husband puts it "he doesn't get you pregnant or deliver the baby but he's there for the ride.")  It's actually nice that he doesn't do deliveries because he's never "on call" or harried or running into an appointment late or exhausted from a late night delivery.  I love my MFM.  He's the calmest, most reassuring doctor I've ever met.  And, his office is this amazing zen-like place with Enya playing in the background, water features and mellow lighting.  There's an NST (non-stress test) suite that we go to for contraction monitoring with big comfy leather recliners and sunny windows.  How non-stressful can you get?  :)  The whole thing is part of a Women's Wellness Clinic and has a massage therapy spa, nutritionists, classes, etc.  I really wish it was closer by because I would definitely choose this place as my normal doctor's office if I could.  
• And for another question -- how do they know which is Baby A and which is Baby B?  At the beginning, it was a little iffy (in my mind at least), but they always label them so that A is the one who is closest to the cervix -- i.e. if born vaginally, the first to get out.  Early on, it seemed like they guessed at that part a bit and chose to call the one on the right A and the one on the left B.  But, they may have already been looking at who was closest to the cervix because Baby A (whose head we can see whacking up against my cervix whenever we do cervical length measurements) is still the one on the right as well.  Now it's definitely obvious -- A is always sitting with his head deep down in my pelvis in a tiny little ball and B is spread out and taking up all the room.  The sonographer is amazing because she'll switch back and forth between them and say "here's Baby B's leg, here's Baby A's stomach" and I can't even figure out which one she's looking at.
• Speaking of ultrasounds, growth and cervix scan yesterday went great.  My friend H came with me because my DH couldn't go at the last minute.  She was so excited to see the scans.  My cervix is still below normal but just in the "slightly off" range around 30-34 mm.  I had several bigger contractions while on the monitor but the MFM isn't worried about them since the cervix measurement and last week's fFN were good.  The babies are measuring exactly at the 50th percentile for weight and within 2 % of each other.  They're nearly 1.5 pounds each!  This truly amazes me because they're considerably bigger than one of my cousin's triplets and nearly as big as the other two when they were born at 27 weeks.  Makes me feel very good about how they're doing.
• My mom's visit was great.  She was beyond excited to get to go with me to see the babies on Friday. She cooked and helped clean which was wonderful because I haven't been able to do anything about the bathroom for weeks and it was getting really gross.  It was great to see her and have her around.  We talked a lot and hung out.
• We're making some progress on the babies' room.  Not as much as I'd like, but at least we're getting somewhere.  The books are off the shelves and sorted into other places in the house and my knitting stuff has been relocated.  There's still a long way to go, though.  I started having panic attacks standing in the room.  (There's another post I'm working on in that.)
• So sad that spring break is over.  Sigh.  Seriously hoping that being back to work doesn't undo all the good cervical growth I've had over the last two weeks.  Trying to stay off my feet as much as possible.

And, I'll leave you with this image.  Pregnancy is that weird time where you use the bathroom and say "when did I last eat corn?" and realize it was three days ago.

Sorry.  Kinda gross, I know.  Happy Tuesday!