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[Hyperpregnancy] Quintuplets, and Growing, Part 4

Kristina stepped on the scale. She waited eagerly for the nurse to adjust the sliding metal piece, finally telling her what her weight was. She was also vaguely glad this wasn’t one of those electronic scales, since there’s no way she’d be able to look down and read it past her swollen belly. It had been a long, grueling two weeks. Kristina was dedicated to gaining that fifty pounds before her delivery day and as a result had been stuffing herself silly every waking moment of the day. It seemed like there wasn’t a spare moment in which she wasn’t eating a fatty meal or guzzling a high-calorie shake, followed by an extra helping of dessert. It certainly felt like she was gaining. Kristina’s belly was now so large she struggled to put her arms completely around it, the orb about the size of a medium-sized beach ball except in a bulging torpedo shape. The now weekly ultrasounds revealed that the babies were gaining weight rapidly, taking up ever more space in her crowded womb. She was