EXPECTING QUADRUPLETS: AN ORDEAL
I'm Whitney, and I'd like to walk you through the last few weeks of my pregnancy with quadruplets, focusing on different aspects of my experience with each week I cover. My goal, if I have one, is to strongly discourage any inclination you may have towards carrying quadruplets. Don't make the same mistake I did. It is immensely unlikely to occur without the use of fertility-boosting drugs. So: do not use those drugs. Thinking about both my career and my body, the idea of pregnancy kind of freaked me out, though I very much wanted a large family. Thus, my poor decision to just go for as many babies at once as I could have, do the one pregnancy and be done with it. Multiple pregnancies would've been far less disruptive in all conceivable ways, I'm quite certain now. Let this record serve as a warning. We'll begin once I'm already absurdly pregnant...
*27 Weeks*
At 27 weeks pregnant I felt nearly immobile. I was still carrying oddly high, I thought, especially given the immense weight of my belly. It protruded more than a foot further than my usual abdomen, starting halfway up the middle of my breasts (pushing them to either side) and going all the way down to the middle of my pubic hair. It seemed to take up all the possible space and stick out as far as physically possible prior to its inevitable drop. Sitting, it looked like a beach ball reaching halfway to my knees. It was gigantic and terribly uncomfortable, making pretty much any movement a very unpleasant and deeply exhausting chore. I stayed in bed a lot.
My husband, Curt, absolutely loved all of this. He's always found pregnancy kinda sexy, but this feeling exploded into full-on fetishism as he experienced the extremities of my quadruplet gestation. He was put in charge of my skin care regimen and, at his insistence, "belly worship." Though I could hardly participate in sexual activity anymore, Curt was still thrilled just to be able to hold my massive bump with one hand and his dick with the other.
His cum was probably the product most frequently applied to my belly, honestly. It really did it for him for me to rub it into myself, so I obliged him for this one easy request. He rubbed plenty of other moisturizers into my belly's skin, too. All the usual butters, creams, oils, you name it. At the size I'd reached and knowing I wasn't done growing, though, it was very clearly a losing battle to try to protect my skin in any way. My skin was stretched taut and shiny, veins were thick and glaringly visible, bright red stretch marks covered the front of my bump and created a rough spiral pattern centered around my outie navel. Waist, hips, ass, upper arms, thighs, breasts, and even feet were all sporting stretch marks, too, though they were less glaring than the bump's.
All sounds super fun so far, right?
*28 Weeks*
At this point, I'd started sleeping in the downstairs guest room so that I would no longer have to climb stairs on a regular basis. They were just too much now. When laying on my back the bump shot up about 8" above the rest of me, the inexorable power of gravity barely touching its immense, immovable heft. It had also dropped by week 28, resting down several inches past my vagina and 6" down my thighs...and that's when laying down. I was already absurdly large, in other words.
With 4 (pretty big!) babies inside me and so very little extra room in my stretched-tight abdomen, their movements were able to contort my bump into a multitude of shapes. I'm only 5'2", so the belly had very few places to go but straight out, leading to very pronounced protrusion throughout; many forms were possible given these conditions.
Sometimes the bump sloped dramatically down from my chest, drooping a great deal and even coming to a point at the hanging bottom where a baby was resting. Sometimes the curve was much rounder and more gradual or graceful, the belly mostly globe-shaped with just a little round lip hanging down over my crotch. Sometimes the babies somehow seemed to arrange themselves in a line progressively further away from me; this created a torpedo shape, sticking out dramatically and drooping down toward its rounded front.
It's a lot of fun to get dressed when you're one shape, go out in public, feel the babies shifting painfully inside you, and suddenly find yourself in clothing that doesn't entirely cover your damaged flesh because of how radically your shape has changed in the last minute or so. A lot of fun...
*29 Weeks*
At a mere 29 weeks, one can safely give birth to quadruplets. God, I wish I had been so lucky as to have the ordeal end there. Anyway, my belly was heavier, sticking out further, and hanging lower. All the difficult things were just getting more difficult. On the other hand, it was also rounding out more and more, which was undeniably pleasing to the eye. So, there's a minuscule silver lining for you.