You are finally 34 weeks pregnant with twins or triplets and your due date is around the corner. Aren’t you happy? The thought of seeing your babies must be making you very anxious, but don’t panic. Take a few deep breaths and calm down. Your doctor will call you to carry out the checkups on a regular basis as well as will conduct numerous tests to ensure that your body is fine. These tests will help detect infections, if any, in this stage and would try to nip them in the bud, to keep the babies completely safe. While some specific tests might be conducted to check your babies for the presence of any defects, there would also be a bunch of symptoms of this final stage that would make their signs known to you pretty soon.
By conducting ultrasounds, your doctor will check the growth of your twins or triplets. He will see if their growth is as per the milestones or not. The chances of premature delivery are high at 34 weeks. Therefore, ensuring that your babies have put on the requisite amount of weight and continue to do so is highly essential.
Furthermore, doctors will keep a constant check on the positions of the babies. The ideal position would make it fine for you to go ahead with a normal delivery. However, if they are not in the correct position, the doctor would suggest for caesarean delivery.
Apart from the weight gain and the growth of the babies, their senses would also be constantly improving and getting better with their use. Their ability to hear things clearly will get better in the coming months. Therefore, any time your voice gets angrier or hateful, remember that your babies are listening to you and are just going to emulate their mother in every respect. In that case, always ensure you spend a lot of time conversing with your children. Singing to them would cause them to respond to you. This is a good sign of their growth since it shows you that their senses are functioning just as you expect them to. Frequently listening to calming songs and humming the same tunes to yourself will cause the babies to remember the music faintly and find themselves being calm when you play it back to them after they are born.
Kick tracking should continue through this week as well. You should indulge in it on a daily basis, which is how you would notice some variations in your children by this week. The frequency of kicks might start dropping or their intensity might reduce as well. This is a natural consequence of an increasing body size combined with a constricted space within the womb. Expect kicks to reduce but not stop altogether. You can encourage them to move by gently rubbing your tummy, too.
A nice ripe squash fruit is how large your twins or triplets will be inside your body by now. Their fat amount keeps on increasing, which reflects in their weight as well. Most babies would tend to weigh close to 2 kilograms by now, which leads to difficulty in carrying them around. Their length is approximately 43-45 centimetres hence they do not have much space in the uterus.
As a result of all the growth and development by the 34th week of pregnancy, body changes will start manifesting itself in various ways, which will be quite confusing as well as irritating for most women.
Whatever you experienced so far in your journey will resurface in the 34th week of your pregnancy. Most of it is a result of how you’ve adjusted to your new lifestyle, and the consequences will have to be borne by you.
The weight of the twins at 34 weeks and even that of triplets will be extremely evident, given the fact that your belly will have a highly rounded and expanded shape in the region below your navel. Each kick of your twins or triplets could also increase your chances of acidity since their movement would now be quite close to the stomach.
The ultrasound being conducted this week is yet another crucial one, where your doctor will check nearly all the areas that are necessary to ensure safe delivery. Many decisions regarding your birth process, right from choosing epidurals to other plans, would be finalised at this stage. Numerous tests would be conducted, with advanced ultrasounds, to observe your twins or multiples closely.
Your meal plan should continue just as it is going on, with a good focus on fibrous foods. In case your weight gain is beyond the healthy level, your doctor or your dietician may make specific alterations in your diet to help you control your weight quickly. This needs to be done while keeping the nutritive requirements of your babies in mind.
With your pregnancy coming close to completion, some quick tips can make the entire period easier for you.
Most of the items would have been procured already, but there are certain things that you can still buy:
The focus on 34 weeks pregnant twins foetal development is all that concerns doctors at this stage. Once this is deemed to be on the right track, your delivery is free to proceed without any complications.