12 week ultrasound pictures and updates

It's been a busy month! I can't believe I haven't had a chance to update my blog with my ultrasound pictures until now. As of today, I'm 14 weeks, 5 days and waiting until my first OB appointment on Oct. 24. I feel like I'm in the "boring stage" of my pregnancy - just waiting until everything starts happening. Soon enough I'll be swamped with doctors appointments and wishing I could get a break...but until then, it's a long wait.

I'm also counting down until my 3D ultrasound on Friday, November 3. We get to see the twins in 3D...and also find out their genders!!! I'm guessing that there is one boy and one girl in here - what does everyone else think?

Now for the updates:
1. I ended up getting my job back. Whew. I'm still teaching Grade 1, in the same school, in the same class. After all that stress, nothing changed.

2. I had my 12 week ultrasound on Sept. 22 and it's still twins! Both babies were moving around, one more than the other (my bet is that one's the boy! :o)

3. I have the measurements from the ultrasound - I'm not sure of the heartrates (the tech didn't tell me), but I did get to see their hearts beating.

The short forms are: CRL - crown to rump; NT - nuchal translucency; BPD - biparietal diameter
Baby A: measured 54.8 mm CRL, 0.8 mm NT, 16.6 mm BPD
Baby B: measured 64.8 mm CRL, 1.4 mm NT, 18.3 mm BPD

Basically, Baby B is the bigger of the two (by one cm). And both have good sizes for the NT measurement - anything lower than 3 mm has a lower chance for Down's.

And of course, they posed for pictures! I got two pictures of both babies on the screen:









The tech said that it was good she got pictures of both babies together - it would be the last time they would both fit on the screen at the same time, they are getting too big now.

I also have a picture of each baby. Baby A I'm having trouble loading the picture in...I'll have to post it later. And Baby B:



Aren't they cute already?! So now we're just playing the waiting game...until my OB appointment. It will be interesting to see how much weight I've gained then (down 1 lbs overall at my 12 week appt.).