Not being able to see your feet is dangerous. Last wednesday, we hit 20 weeks - officially half way there. To celebrate I spent the night in the ER getting stitches because I might be the biggest clutz ever. I tripped on a peice of frame glass in our hallway and cut my toes pretty bad. It was painful, especially the next day when I felt like my foot/toes my fall off. I ended up with 4 stitches in my toe and some pretty bad bruising. To say the least chasing a toddler and babysitting my neighbors 2 month old has been interesting this last week.
On Friday we had our check up. Babies hearts were beating away, I learned that I'd gained 8 lbs in 4 weeks. Guess I got my appetite back :/ Its ok though because before that I hadn't gained much so this is a total weight gain of 14lbs. Not too bad for 20 weeks with twins.
We went in and had our anatomy scan this last Tuesday. Both babies are still boys and are doing wonderful. Baby A (the smaller baby that gave us the heartattacks early on) is still measuring smaller at 12 oz, has a good strong heartbeat of 139. She confirmed both kidneys and showed us how the arteries flowing to that area as well as the big dark spots where the kidneys are located, then she started having trouble with getting good pictures of the heart because baby was moving like crazy! This little guy is head down still and is vertical on my left side - way down low. Baby B (the larger baby) was also moving around like crazy and is positioned diagonal across my belly butt first. They said there is still plenty of time for that baby to flip over. He is about 13oz and his heartbeat was 144 BPM. So we have two very active little boys on the way - yikes! I'm blaming it on the candy corn I ate (per Evelyn's persistant requests) earlier in the day... oops.
They said there is a 25% chance they are identical and we won't know until they are born. If they come out looking alike than I will have them do the DNA test to determine if they are or not. But, Gabriel looked an aweful lot like Evelyn so I'm guessing these two may look similar too. Brought up an interesting conversation between Derrick and I - what if one or both of these two come out looking just like Gabriel. Its something thats been on my mind, no doubt I worry about how I will react if that is the case. I can't prepare for something like that or how to handle it, but I imagine its going to be difficult none the less.The babies have been moving around like crazy but everytime Derrick puts his hand to feel it - they stop. Poor guy wants to feel it so bad, he loves these guys so much, but they are shy... or stubborn.
We have been working diligently on the nursery trying to get it all done before we hit 28 weeks. I made this my goal because I don't want to be huge and trying to finish it all. We still have a bit to go before its done, but I'll show you a picture of our progress so far.
Evelyn seems to be starting to understand that there are babies in mommy's tummy. I think having baby Sophia around has made her comprehend that a baby is not a doll haha. She now points at my belly and says "baby" and gets very upset when the cat ends up in one of the cribs! "Move Boris, BABY!" (all animals are Boris - which is one of our dogs names).
We are now 21 weeks 1 day. Here's a picture of our progress (taken at 21 weeks):
You look amazing, mama!
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