Ultrasounds just make me nervous. This is only the 2nd one in this pregnancy but it still was quite the experience.....just wanting to see 2 little beating hearts. Knowing there's two in there and not always being able to feel Baby B move plays games with the mind. Yesterday brought with it nothing but amazing news....and pictures! Both babies are still very much undoubtedly little boys!!! Both are measuring slightly ahead for their gestational age with estimated weights of 4'10 and 4'8. And both babies are head down!! A very far cry from Garrison continually being head down and Grant forever being breech....and born that way! These two little guys went from both being breech at 21 wks when we found them to flipping to vertex around 28 or so weeks and just staying put. At one point B got a little sideways and was oblique/transverse but is now head down and has chosen to stay that way for quite awhile. The odds of 2 vertex babies are pretty slim to none so it was a very fun surprise and such a sweet thing to see 2 little heads pressed together yet again in this sonogram. Both little hearts beating perfectly and both boys wiggling around in their squished confines.
Baby A has yet to ever move his arm and hand away from his face. It definitely makes for some difficult face views. It was up there last time and refused to move this time around too. Just as Gavin slept for his 1st entire two years this baby sleeps also. Arm up by the face, head turned into it. Baby B is folded completely in half like a butt breech baby turned upside down and presenting vertex. His feet are up by his eyes and he sucked on his knee for the majority of the sono. Be interesting to see how he pulls that off once he arrives. His eyes remained open the majority of the time so we got lots of sweet views of him looking around. We did finally get one great 3D look at his entire face and from what we could see he looks like a little tiny miniature Garrett. Baby A's face was so squished up it was hard to tell who exactly he resembles....other than just looking exactly like the rest of everybody. He had the anterior placenta blocking one 1/2 of his face while his arm, the dividing membrane between babies and Baby B pressing in served to fitfully obstruct the other 1/2 of his face.
There is an excitement that motivates every fiber of my being when seeing these boys. I suppose after losing a baby at 14 wks it's hard to really feel connected or attached to this pregnancy. But after seeing two big babies moving, wiggling and each with their own personalities already within it brings with it an immediate love. To know already that they look like the others and resemble their siblings is just amazing to me. I anticipate their birth and no longer dread the pain in getting them here. It's an amazing thing to not have to worry about their delivery this time and have the peace of knowing we don't have to go anywhere. It's a very great blessing to have midwives that will attend a home birth and just be able to anticipate their birth without trepidation and all of the emotional turmoil that surrounded Garrison and Grant's. After seeing them yesterday there now exists an eagerness to meet them that seemed to evade me to up until this point. My sweet, sweet boys that grow within. I think I am in love. I know I am in love.
And how grateful I am for my husband that not only accepts the fact that I now rival the size of a male elephant and have taken on a new barrel like shape but has become quite endeared to it also. How very much in love I am with him. How he motivates me to carry these babies to the end even when I become a little too motivated to have them now. How grateful I am for how very much he loves me....so entirely massively pregnant and after the fact when I shrink back down to human status again.
Baby B is the 2 top left side pictures and the bottom right. The blurry parts in his pics is his very long umbilical cord draped all over the place. Bottom left and 2 top right are Baby A with his arm and hand forever up by his face. Blurry parts in his pics is the anterior placenta obstructing the view of him.
Baby A in the 2 pics on the left. A full face view but completely and totally squished between everything in there. Baby B in the 3 pics on the right with his knee and foot up by his face. It could be Baby A's knee and foot t hat he was sucking on. We never were quite sure by the end of it. But based on his position I think we finally guessed it was probably his own. 
And while the babies heads are way too big now to fit into one picture this will still be one of my all time favorite pictures of them. Taken at 21 wks when we found them and their heads were little enough to be pictured together.
7 more weeks!!
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