Growing taller during pregnancy

The strangest thing happened today. I grew! I was talking to my husband who is three inches taller than I am, but I felt like we were looking at each other more eye to eye than usual. I looked down to see if I was standing on something, but nope, we were both bare foot on the carpet. I insisted that we stand back to back and when we looked in the mirror I seriously looked taller than normal! We decided to find out once and for all if I had in fact grown, so we got out the tape measure, I stood against the wall and lo and behold I am now 5’8! I have always been around 5’7 or maybe closer to 5’7.5 but I’ve never been 5’8.

So thinking this was crazy I went straight to google and searched “women growing taller during pregnancy” and what do you know, there are some other women who have experienced growing up to 3 inches during their pregnancies! I’ve heard of people’s feet getting bigger during pregnancy, but never actually adding inches to their stature. As for me, I guess we’ll have to wait and see what happens. At this point, I’m only 4 months along, and if I keep growing at this rate I could gain another inch!

Now that I think about it, I have been complaining of my legs hurting and feeling sore, as well as my arms, hands, back, feet and basically I just hurt everywhere. Maybe these are all just growing pains? I have also gained 11 pounds, so it’s probably more likely that my legs and feet are hurting from carrying around the extra weight, but who knows?

2nd trimester round ligament pain

Another new pain I’ve been noticing is a tightness on both sides of my lower abdomen/groin area (but mainly on the right side). I also googled this symptom and it sounds like it could be round ligament pain. I suppose because this is a twin pregnancy my uterus is growing a bit faster than it would during a singleton pregnancy, so the round ligament feels like it is definitely stretching and super tight! If I make sudden movements or turn from one side to the other while sleeping I definitely feel the sharp pain like I’m pulling a muscle. Has anyone else had similar pains during the second trimester?

My next ultrasound with Maternal Fetal Medicine

As for the second ultrasound I was supposed to have this week, that’s not going to happen. I called four different Maternal Fetal Medicine (MFM) offices and no one was able to get me in for another three weeks. I thought this was going to be a problem since my OB made it sound like it was necessary for me to get it right away, but she said I could wait till they can get me in (at 19 weeks). I was a bit frustrated that I spent so much time trying to get an appointment and the whole time I was worrying about the babies thinking there was something wrong that made the OB recommend the specialist. Anyway, I guess she was just being extra careful. Now I can relax a little and trust that the peeps are probably just fine.

The peeps’ gender reveal is happening tomorrow!

Even though we weren’t able to do a second ultrasound to confirm Baby B’s gender we are still going to go ahead with the gender reveal gathering tomorrow! We couldn’t wait another three weeks to find out, especially since they were able to determine the gender of Baby A, so at least we know for sure that one of the genders will be correct. The ultrasound technician did see Baby B but only for a few seconds and I think she just wanted to get another look to be 100% sure. We trust her guessing ability, so we’re going to go for it! However, if for some reason Baby B ends up being a different gender at our next ultrasound we will get a cupcake in the correct color so he/she doesn’t feel left out of the gender reveal party business!

Stay tuned for the gender reveal post sometime tomorrow evening!