We haven't blogged much about this pregnancy. By nature, twins pregnancies are considered high risk. While there have been little ups and downs here and there, we feel very fortunate that, in general, all has gone very well. Today I am 36 weeks and 5 days along, and thrilled to have made it this far! Thirty-seven weeks is considered "full term" for twins, so we'll probably reach that milestone on Saturday! (For those of you interested, full term is determined by the viability of the placenta or placentas. With singleton pregnancies, the placenta tends to break down around 40 weeks, and when this occurs you go in to labor. For twins and higher order multiples, this time frame is shorter.) Ok, here are a few pictures of me and the boys.
35 weeks along (April 11, 2009)
During last week's ultrasound, the technician captured some amazing 4D ultrasound images (these are essentially a series of 3D images captured rapidly and animated). They are looking kind of squished in there! Who do you think they look like?
Baby 1 above
and
Baby 2 below
and
Baby 2 below
Finally, here's evidence that I really do like numbers and analyzing data... particularly when it is so relevant! Today I had my 14th ultrasound - yes... 14 of them! Believe it or not, the novelty does wear off after a while. Anyway, every other week the babies weights were estimated. We've tracked the data in Excel, and here's a snapshot of what we have so far. Baby 1 has pretty much been right around the 50th percentile and Baby 2 takes after his big sister, and has been consistently off the charts!
With all the information and data we've gathered, we're more anxious than ever to meet these little guys!
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