Info on my twins!

Over the past 4 weeks since I found out that I'm carrying twins there have been a couple of developments. Firstly, my fabulous friend Fran did some reseach because she's being vicariously pregnant with me! She discovered 4 different kinds of twins, depending on if the babies are sharing a placenta, or an amniotic sac, both, or none. There is also the possibility of conjoined twins. The only information I had until this past Tuesday I gleaned from the quick glance I got at the ultrasound screen in my hyper-emotional state the night I found out! Being as educated as I am in the radiology field I could tell right away that they are NOT conjoined. That's as much as I knew!

This Tuesday passed I had my first appointment with my family doctor since my ultrasound and found out a little more information! They are in fact didi twins...short for dichorionic/diamniotic, I think is how you spell it, meaning they each have their own placenta and amiontic sac. They are also measuring a day apart in size, meaning there were two fertilization processes making the probability of identical twins super minimal.

My doctor also informed me that according to the size of both babies she was changing my dates. When I had the ultrasound I was 13 weeks 5 days, Twin A was measuring at 15 weeks and Twin B was measuring at 14 weeks 6 days. So right now according to my original dates I'm 18 weeks 1 day along, but maybe according to the babies I'm 19+ weeks. I don't really know what to make of this seeing as how my first baby was born 11 days "overdue" at 10lbs 11oz. We'll just have to see what the next ultrasound has to say. My "detailed" u/s is booked for 2 weeks from now and I'm getting anxious!

Funny aside, at my first appointment with my doctor, which seems ages ago now, I told her that I want a planned c-section as my first delivery turned out to be an emergency c-section, and that while I was there I'd to the tube-tying thing. I'm 33. I'll be 34 by the time these babies are born. I know I'm not doing this again! So last Tuesday she confirmed the c-section planned, also I would get my tubes tied. So I corrected her...tube. I only have one fallopian tube, which plays a major part in likely theories on why I miscarried in 2004. TUBE?! How does this happen when you only have one tube? Like I would know better than she? Twins do not run in my family, nor my husband's. My maternal great-great grandmother gave birth to twins and my grandfather's niece had twins. This is not a pattern. Then my doctor says, this is why God made you this way. If you had two fallopian tubes there'd be 4 babies in there! I don't think my husband would have survived that alternative universe!!!

So now I've told you everything I know about the two tinies growing in my belly. I hope to know their genders and up-to-date sizes soon! I am beginning to feel more defined movement. I've been feeling shivery tiny movements for a couple of weeks, but now it's starting to feel more like the cartwheels I remember with X, so it could get interesting fast!