I don't have data since she has gone into the hospital but she is doing well. The last time we measured, she was 53 inches around.
Important Numbers for week 28 (June 22, 2007)
Mom Baby Belly Inches: 49.75
Mom Weight Gain: 52
Weight of smallest quintuplet over 2 pounds!
As you can imagine, with five babies instead of one, Rachelle's belly will be growing at a much faster rate than normal. We will be tracking the progress of the "baby belly". We now have enough data for a chart so we made one. We haven't been able to update it lately because of the hospital stay Rachelle had but we have updated the pounds gained graph below.
The really great thing about this is that the quintuplets are growing. They are now all over two pounds which is wonderful.
The doctor in Arizona has put Rachelle on the "Quintuplet Diet". This includes eating 5000 calories a day---mostly of junk food and red meat. (This sounds like a dream come true---to be ordered by the doctor to eat milkshakes and Big Macs, however Rachelle says it got old after the first couple days...) He wants her to gain 75-100 lbs by the time the babies are born. We will be keeping track of her weight gain below. Rachelle thinks we should also keep track of my (Jayson's) sympathy weight gain, but that is still under discussion...
Here is the raw data:
|
Date
|
Week
|
lbs
|
Inches |
|
2-06-07
|
9
|
12
|
?
|
|
2-13-07
|
10
|
17
|
?
|
|
2-20-07
|
11
|
21
|
42
|
|
2-27-07
|
12
|
25
|
43.5
|
|
3-06-07
|
13
|
28
|
44
|
|
3-13-07
|
14
|
31
|
45
|
|
3-20-07
|
15
|
34
|
46
|
|
3-27-07
|
16
|
36
|
46.5
|
|
4-03-07
|
17
|
37
|
47.5
|
|
4-11-07
|
18
|
38.5
|
48
|
|
4-19-07
|
19
|
41
|
48.25
|
|
4-24-07
|
20
|
43
|
48.5
|
|
5-1-07
|
21
|
43
|
48
|
|
5-8-07
|
22
|
42
|
48
|
|
5-15-07
|
23
|
44
|
48
|
|
5-22-07
|
24
|
44
|
49
|
|
5-29-07
|
25
|
48
|
49
|
|
6-05-07
|
26
|
48
|
49
|
|
6-12-07
|
27
|
49.25
|
49.25
|
|
6-19-07
|
28
|
52
|
49.75
|
