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[Hyperpregnancy] Quintuplets, and Growing, Part 6

35 weeks and five days. Kristina had been pregnant with quintuplets for 35 weeks and five days. While she supposed she wasn’t technically the most pregnant woman in the world—the rumor of the woman pregnant with octuplets floated across her mind frequently—she certainly felt like the most pregnant woman in the world. The days in the facility were starting to blend together. Wake up. Take her supplements. Drink a weight gain shake with a huge breakfast. Have another snack. Pump her milk. Rest. Another weight gain shake. Eat. Pump. Eat. Pump. Eat. Try and fail to sleep because the babies were moving so much. Finally doze off and then do it all over again. In some ways, Kristina felt like she was a slave to her belly and the babies within. They demanded constant feeding and with her ravenous hunger she was helpless to do anything except oblige them. Much to the delight of her doctor, Kristina’s third trimester was going swimmingly with her now gaining at least a pound a day, sometimes