2nd Twin Ultrasound!

The big day finally arrived!  We had our second ultrasound today.  Surprisingly, I wasn't nervous or anxious at all.   I made it through a few hours of work, emptied my bladder, drank my water and then headed to the hospital.  I was brought into the room first to do all the measurements, while poor DH had to wait outside.  Since it was double measurements, it took soooo long!  DH said after that he was worried something was wrong since it took so long.  Poor guy!

The ultrasound tech was nice and we chatted while she did her job.  I couldn't see the screen during that time, so it was pretty uneventful.  Baby A was pretty active, and hiding its face with its hand at first (which I thought was super cute).  Baby B turned out to be even more active as she got to measuring it.  (By the way, I had written "her" and "him" in place of "it" before catching myself, since we don't know the genders... we are just guessing that A is the girl and B is the boy.  But for consistency sake, I'll keep calling them "it" for now).  Even with them being active, I couldn't feel distinct movements, but the tech said I will definitely start to feel them more soon due to how active they were being.  Hooray! 

Finally (45 minutes later) she finished the measurements and DH was allowed to come in, then we got to look at them!  Baby A was face down (towards my back) so we could only see the spine at first, but Baby B was face-up.  Both had their heads down, and the placentas looked fine (not too low, as far as I could tell).  We could see their beating hearts (SO cool!), their noses (cutest!) their bone structure, and even the umbilical cords!  Right at the end, the twins moved positions so that they were both facing the same way, and she got a picture of all 4 feet lined up together (see below).  She said that is pretty rare, so we got a great picture!  I asked her how big they were measuring and they both are 19weeks, 1day.  So, I guess I go by the date since my IUI, and not necessarily my LMP. 

I am pretty giddy with excitement!  My next OB appointment is on Thursday, so I guess I'll have more details by then.  Oh, and then I came home to a package from my sister with presents for the babies and the beautiful hand-made pregnancy journal she made for me.  It is soooo thoughtful!  I thought I'd share a few pictures.  Note that the last picture is an ultrasound picture, just of the feet.  I thought it was pretty cute but feel free to skip over if you're not interested. 

Package from my sis!

Handmade pregnancy journal

Cutie clothes!

The loves of my life!