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Keep Those Babies in There

Avoiding Premature Delivery With Twins

By Jill Eggleton Brett

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pregnant mom and child The home pregnancy test revealed a plus sign. The blood test was positive. Congratulations – you're pregnant! But when your waistline is expanding exponentially in the first trimester, you have an extra dose of morning sickness and you're already feeling fetal movement – that's when you discover you're pregnant with twins.

Striving for 40 Weeks
After the shock subsides and you've told everyone you know the latest news on your bundles of joy, it's time to concentrate on keeping those babies where they belong. This place, of course, is inside the uterus. The uterus is meant to house a fetus for nine months. But when there is an extra baby vying for growth space, twin pregnancies often result in early deliveries. Your first job as a mother of twins is to keep your duo corralled in your uterus for as many weeks of the 40-week pregnancy cycle as possible.

"Nature is so good to us," says Dr. Shanta Srivastava, an obstetrician/gynecologist in Upland, Calif. "The uterus will typically keep expanding and proceeding as normal until around the 28th week. Then when the twins start pushing the uterus into full capacity with their rapid growth, sometimes problems with pre-term labor can develop."

Preventing Preterm Labor
Dr. Srivastava offers tips on how to help prevent pre-term labor with twins.

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