On Thursday, wifey, myself and “the unborn duo” headed to Delnor Hospital’s SAFEKEEPING High Risk OB. We met them during our last pregnancy after a scare with Julie and some bleeding around 24 weeks where the ER doctors determined her to be classified as high risk just to be on the safe side.

The first few times we visited we were extremely impressed with the staff, and over the course of the final trimester we enjoyed our time there, getting to hear our lil dude and see him on a reglar basis.

Costly? Yes. But who cares about money when you’re looking your unborn kiddo in the face and saying what up long before many other people get the chance to.

Of course, having twins puts her in the high risk category but we were told because the first one was high risk, the second one is most likely high risk as well, so we are doubly high risk this time around.

The goal for this visit was to get the NT test taken care of. The Nuchal Scan is done with ultrasound to screen for higher risks of Down syndrome. Because our last pregnancy only included one ultrasound at 20 weeks to determine the sex, we hadn’t experienced the test first hand, and this time we got to see it done twice.

The ultrasound technician, who was a ninja-ess in our opinion, was quick to point out the 4 arms, 4 legs, 20 toes, 20 fingers, 2 heads, 2 torsos, 2 stomachs, 2 healthy beating hearts, 2 bladders, 2 nasal cavites, and then we got to the ‘nuchal translucency’ party.

She zoomed in on each neck and measured the amount of fluid behind the necks of the twins. Both measurements were the same and in the safe category, so for now, things are looking good!

We’ve learned that our twins each have their own placenta, one anterior and one posterior and fused together in the middle. We were also able to see that the subchorionic hematoma and any and all cysts have disappeared.

Well, what else can we look at in there?
Surely we can’t find out the sex at this stage can we?

“I’ve had great luck the past few years with determining the sexes at this age, let’s give it a shot.”

The ninja ultrasound technician then started snooping around the pelvic areas of each sack and informed us that with practice she is able to pretty accurately determine the sexes based on the angle of the pelvic bone or something to that effect.

She then introduced us to our daughter, Baby A, Leah (spelling to be determined later) and our son, Baby B, let’s call him SuperDuperSquishyFace for now because we are in the midst of a battle for supremacy as far as boys names are concerned.

We’re having a matching set.

Salt & Pepper
Bread & Butter
Brandon & Brenda Walsh
Milli & Vanilli
Cream & Sugar
Venus & Mars
Awesomina & Awesoman

I could go on for pages, and I just might!

We have a permanent grin on our faces. We cannot wait to meet the pair.

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