The Big Ultrasound!

Again after an eternity passed, it was finally time for our anatomy scan. Otherwise known as the gender scan. Some people get them as early as 18 weeks, my doctor prefers to wait until 22 weeks...it's brutal! D and I arrived for our 8:15 appointment. Luckily we were late so it didn't seem like our wait was nearly as long! The nurse started with the cervical length. She didn't tell us the numbers, but D and I were getting pretty good at watching and doing a little mental math. They didn't seem as high as they did last time, but I figured it just meant we'd be coming back in another week for another check.  We also noticed that baby A's head was planted on my cervix, great for delivery, less exciting if I was having cervical changes.

Then it was time for the fun belly scan. It was amazing, the babies had gotten so big there were body parts everywhere. With twins I think it probably took at least 2 hours, there were a lot of measurements to get and apparently not as many angles to get them from. It was fun though because the babies were very active. They seem to respond to the ultrasound probes. I'm pretty sure they are going to be dancing fools! The nurse pointed out a few things here and there but mostly we just watched. It actually got a little painful at times when she was trying hard to get measurements, I certainly had a few sore spots by the time she was done. We told the nurse that we loved pictures so she printed a bunch out for us, turns out she just printed multiple copies of a few pictures. She took hundreds of them, I wish it was like a portrait shop where I could just pick out the ones I wanted! But we did get some clear (ok, mostly clear to her) gender shots. Baby A (on the bottom) is officially Baby Girl Witham, Baby B (on the top) is officially Baby B Witham. How blessed are we that we get to experience raising a boy and still get to revisit all those adorable things we had from Sophia!

(I'm having some technical issues with those pictures I'll try to get them up at some point!)

Officially Baby A's weight at the time was estimated to be 1lb 2oz, and Baby B 1lb 3oz, both spot on for their gestational age of 22 wks 2 days. Next up was our consult with Dr. S, the peri who was going to look at all our pictures.