Week 17 Doctor's update

I had a doctor's appointment today. I have been able to put on 6 lbs since the last appointment. My goal was closer to 10 so I have a little make up work to do. My doctor was able to use the Doppler to hear both heartbeats for the babies today and they were both in a healthy range.  Other than not gaining enough weight, my blood pressure was excellent (118 / 77) and labs showed normal levels of protein in my urine.

I have had some weird headaches in the last month that she diagnosed as tension headaches. She gave me some stretches and the OK to use up to 1000 mg of Tylenol.  She also recommended that I start getting massages and get fitted for a maternity belt. Hopefully these will help.

Week 16

Currently we are in week 16.  Most of my nausea is gone but am still feeling quite a bit of fatigue. The babies seem to be growing because I am as well.  I can feel some movement but no movement from the outside yet.
I will have my next doctors appointment one week from today.  We will be getting another ultrasound around week 20. We have decided not to find out the genders of the babies. So sorry, everybody will have to wait until June to find out.  If you were wondering our 40 week due dates are July 5th and July 6th, but we won't be going past June 23.  On average twins come at about 36 weeks.  I am hoping to make it to 38 weeks.

Yes I know I am big already.

12 Week Ultrasound Photos

Here are some of the ultrasound photos from December 20th.  I was about 12 weeks along. From these pictures the doctor could see separate placentas. This means that they are Diamniotic/Dichorionic which is the set of twins least likely to have complications.

Many people have commented that twins run in Aaron's family.  True there's a few sets of twins in Aaron's family on the Luptak (his dad's) side.  Unfortunately I can't stick this on him.  While fraternal twins is a genetically predisposed trait, it can only come from the maternal side.  The woman (me) has to have the genetic trait to release two eggs at one time.  No man can make a woman due this.  After doing some research we (my sister and I) found that there is at least one other set of fraternal twins on my father's mother's side.  Since my grandmother only had sons it was forgotten about. This does mean since I have twins on my side and Aaron has twins on his the chances of Abby or any other daughter having twins is greatly increased.

Second ultrasound photos

These ultrasound photos were taken on November 21st during my 7th week of pregnancy.  In the photos you will see the babies labeled Baby A and Baby B.  They do this to keep track of who is who. Baby A is the baby closer to the cervix. You will also notice that Baby A is measuring a day older than Baby B.  This combined with the fact that they have separate sacks has led the doctors to believe that they are most likely fraternal though it is not impossible for them to be identical.

The discovery Ultrasound photos from November 6th

These are the ultrasound photos that first let us know we were having twins.  At this point I was in my 5th week of pregnancy.

First post of the new Blog.

As we did with our first kid we will be keeping a blog of this second pregnancy. If you didn't know already we are expecting twins this June.  This was a very big surprise for everyone.  I have a bit of back blogging to do with ultrasound photos and such so I will try to get things up to date.