Checkin' in at 13 weeks and 5 days!

     A great improvement from last doctors visit, we got to see the ultrasound tech! And the doc, but yea, yea. We have pictures and we got to listen to the heartbeats, although it was a very brief listen. Also, despite what the nurse practitioner said last week about the pregnancy being just like a singleton and having twins is no different..... she was wrong. After talking to the ultrasound tech and doctor Lewis, they both informed me that we will be checking on their heartbeats every visit with an ultrasound since the doppler gets confusing with two heartbeats going on. :) Yay! 

     So we will see them again in about 4 weeks! Then almost 3 weeks after that, we will have our anatomy scan to check all their parts and maybe (hopefully) find out genders so I can start really getting stuff together! 

     They are looking good and healthy! Baby A was chilling on its belly, and baby B was on its back. They both wiggled around for us to see. Baby A's heartbeat was 142 and Baby B was 144.(just for fun, Lucy’s was 163 at 13 weeks) They are officially "too big" to get in the same camera shot, except for one picture we got of their heads, haha! I thought since they were growing we would get better pictures but these are still kind of hard to see. Another thing that I found very interesting is that they are not together- like one baby is on one side and the other on the opposite. With transferring the embryos in the same catheter, I assumed they would stick together to implant or at least be in the same area. Turns out, they each have an independent spirit and split up to implant. Looking forward to seeing that in their personalities! ;)
Our due date is August 2nd.... but that would be 40 weeks. 

     The ultrasound tech was awesome, and although the doctor was laaaaaate (we had the first or second appointment and instead of 8:15 she came in at 9- but polar vortex, right?) she was also great. We documented the itchiness and decline of nausea. We talked about making it to 38 weeks and that my kind of twins (fraternal) was the lowest risk of twins because they have their own placenta and nutritional source, and made a plan to stay healthy.  

   This ultrasound was another sigh of relief and we can rock and roll for a few more weeks before checking in on them again. 

    In the life of Lucy...she still has no idea, haha. Although she is too smart for her own little 2 year old self. She even asked me why I had a doctors appointment. She was content with the answer, "to get my belly checked." She's more concerned that the zoo is not open in the winter....she really wants to "walk through the beads and see the alligators. The bats are soon tute because they're so tiny. I want to feed the lorikeets water because they are thirsty. I only like the baby gorilla, not the big ones..." Deep breath child! 

     So she is busy making her own big summer plans and winning royal rumbles... and being a ridiculously cute toddler. She's basically an expert at stalling before bed- which is earlier than I anticipated. She can talk circles around needing milk, a different baby doll, no a different one, needa tell you somefing, kisses, hugs, stories, songs, blankets, no a different blanket, yada yada yada- until she's blue in the face. We've been using pictures of bedtime procedures since before the big girl bed and she was and is great with all that (thanks conscious discipline!) but the closing of her eyes and quieting her mouth have become our greatest challenge. Too much to say and too much to see! She's the definition of inquisitive toddler! All is well!