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Update on the piglets

A couple people have asked me about progress on our twins.  Stacey and I took to calling them the piglets early because it will be their good fortune to be born in the Year of the Pig!

Mind you, its not just any Year of the Pig - once every 60 years, the Golden Year of the Pig roles around, which is even more auspicious - in China they are expecting an increase in the birthrate this year of 20%.  Think of the implications, all because of a belief in a little bit of extra luck ...

In any case, on Monday we marked week 28 and went for another scan (because they are high risk, we head in for scans every two weeks.  The Singapore hospital is starting to call us by our first names.  I'm collecting hospital receipts like Dave collects frequent flyer points).  The good news is that both babies are still growing well - they are both estimated as over 1kg in weight (not bad, although with a 15% margin for error).

The biggest obstacle we have from now on in is the risk of an acute event (namely umbilical cord entanglement, which would be very acute indeed).  The best way to mitigate against that risk would be to have Stacey hooked up to a CTG scan 24 hours a day, with someone watching the monitor continuously ... but, since we all know we don't live in an ideal world, we settle for something which balances practical considerations with a desire to minimise risk.  She'll be going in every two days for CTG scans, starting tomorrow morning ...

The docs did confirm that the latest they will deliver these babies is 33 weeks.  So, within five weeks they'll be here and no doubt all hell will break loose!

Comments (2)

I'll bet the word "emergence" is taking on a whole new meaning! Best of luck to you both! Oops... to all four of you!

Jimmy Kwang:

Steve (& Stacey) - Congratulations ! As parents to twins as 1st borns - I can testify that it is a thoroughly exhilarating and wonderful experience.

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