2 Babies!

Today was ultrasound day! Hooray! First there was the waiting. And then the drinking. And then the waiting. But here's something I probably shouldn't admit too freely. Back in the day when I was pregnant with X I was going for an ultrasound. "They" had me so paranoid about not having enough liquid in my bladder! But the thing was, it was either pee and reschedule, or embarrass myself. So I chose to pee. When I went into the ultrasound room, I told them it wasn't going to work, but the technician looked and said there was plenty of fluid! Seriously, they called me in 3 minutes after I peed. So, I was not so paranoid this time. I totally peed before they called me in, and the technician still made a big deal of doing the first round of important pics quickly so I could pee again! I know, I'm a bad person.

She asked if we wanted to know the genders of the babies (after confirming for me that there were still two and ONLY two) and I told her we did in fact want to know, but she still made me wait until the "medical" pictures were taken care of and she could call Marvin in and tell us together. She took the medical pictures pretty quickly actually, they had booked me for 2 hours, but she was done the "important" stuff in under one hour! I asked her what makes them label them twin A and twin B since she took the pictures of twin B first, and she explained that twin A is always the one closer to the "out" button. So it's not necessarily always the same baby that gets labelled twin A if you have multiple ultrasounds as they tend to move a bit.

Twin A is, at the moment, head down and to my left side.

Twin B is bum down and occupying most of my right side.

Now the technician couldn't really tell me anything about the size of them. She did tell me that since I was having twins I would be back for another ultrasound later on to make sure they are both growing at the same rate and that one was not "stealing" all the nutrients from the other. I asked if they looked "ok" now and she just said Mmmmhmmm. So, I'll take that as it is and ask for more details when I see my family doctor next week.

And now the reveal! Twin A, totally a girl. Twin B almost sure she's a girl too. Twin B was kind of in a more difficult-to-get-a-clear-picture position, but the technician said she thought girl, and from what she could (or couldn't) show us, I'm pretty sure they're both little ladies! Marvin took the news rather well, the look that crossed his face was one of grim determination. When we were driving away however, the near-by high school was releasing students and all of the sudden my husband is terrified of lulu lemon.

X's reaction was not so calm. He said "But I wanted a brudder! I don't like when girls are all over me!" Marvin convinced him that having a sister is not that bad, girls can play everything boys do. X is a little skeptical that girls play video games, but I think he'll be a great big brother! We also mentioned that his best friend F has a sister, and he likes her, so maybe it won't be so bad! :)

Now we have about 17 weeks (ish) to wrap our heads around "little girls" and how different it's going to be!! Oh boy. But I am super excited to see Marvin put together the double stroller and to start collecting girly things!! Heeheeheee!