We are half way (well, hopefully over half way) done with this pregnancy! By the calendar today I am 21 weeks pregnant with our embryo adopted twins. Time seems to have flown by since the first trimester unpleasantness lifted, I'm sure the holiday season helped with that. The photos that follow reflect the typical half way point of 20 weeks, but twins can be early so I may have as little as 15 weeks left!! And I do believe some growing has happened since then!
20 Bump!! Babies are growing!
We had our 20 ultrasound last Monday on exactly 20 weeks. It was a LONG appointment with over 180 pictures taken. Babies are both individually within the "healthy" range. Heart beats were strong (141 and 136), and all organ and brain pictures looked normal. Praise the Lord!!
Here is twin 'A" looking for its hand.
And twin "B" full profile (you can even make out a leg bone curled up!)
While everything individually looked great, there was a significant amount of size difference between the 2 babies. Normal growth range is anywhere between 5% and 95% - with 50% being perfect by the calendar growth (which is pretty rare). Baby "A" measurement averages put it at the 84% range (20 weeks), while the average measurements for baby "B" were in the 18% range (19 weeks). At the 20 week point, it is common to be perfectly healthy with baby measuring 18-22 weeks in size. Sooo long story there to say we are waiting for a call from a specialty maternity ultrasound clinic in Eugene to make sure that "Big baby"isn't stealing nutrition from "Little baby" and to make sure "Little baby" keeps growing. We have been waiting for the referral call for a week now - so there must not be too much concern. With the amount of movement felt and with all other scans looking perfect we really aren't concerned. They are after all different people and have permission to grow at different rates.
Tomorrow I meet with the OB again to check everything out and hopefully she will have more of an update for me. A heart beat ultrasound will once again be done as well as water level check.
While we do have A LOT of good news...we have had a recent loss, sigh:
"Youngest daughter" can no longer reach all the way around to give a hug. She had been "measuring" daily and it seemed to disappear overnight.
And because we were in the mood, here are a couple of funnies to leave you with:
Lastly because we know you are asking - we DON'T know what we are having :).
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I do so love all of your updates!
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