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No belly picture this week, but I had an ultrasound for the first time in 8 weeks and wanted to report the stats. I saw the high risk specialist for the first time and he's the one who did the ultrasound.

Baby A:

• Measuring 3lb 11oz
• Head down
• Plenty of fluid
• Face smushed into the placenta, so no good pictures could be taken of him

Baby B:

• Measuring 3lb 4oz (the doc said that the difference in weight, 12%, is nothing to worry about)
• Also head down (he flipped since the L&D incident a few weeks ago!)
• Plenty of fluid
• Face was turned so we got a good (4D!) shot of his face

How cute is he?!


A few more interesting tidbits from the appointment:

• They are 90% sure that the babies are identical. They can't be 100% unless we did DNA testing of the placenta (which we won't do), but chances are likely that they will be


• The doctor said that they will still watch for signs, but that the risk of Twin-to-Twin Transfusion (when one baby grows much faster than the other and they both suffer for it) is usually only up until 26 weeks, so we're looking good there.


• He said by the looks of things that I still have a while to go (no signs of pre-term labor) and that he wouldn't be surprised if I went to term. For a twin pregnancy, that's 37-38 weeks. That seems like a LONG time from now and a LOT more growing, but it's only mid-September, and that's not really all that far away!