September 10th, ‘09
Sep/090
I have contemplated this post for a week or more, wondering whether to just delete the ‘twins’ section or whether to carry on with it. As some of you will know, we lost one of our girls on September 10th and we are just about coming to terms with it, though still very bewildered by everything.
Five more weeks, big babies!
Sep/091
So, with my vacation about to start, we now have only five weeks before Althea and Zoe arrive!
One of the concerns our Doctor had was the weight of the twins, which he expected/predicted would be around 2 lbs at birth. Thankfully, we have now found that their current weight is already almost 2lbs each! This is going to cut down on the amount of time we have to spend at the ICU after the birth, which is brilliant.
Just a short update for you, now it’s off to find more baby stuff!
No membrane, no problem
Jun/090
So, the great membrane search is over. The good people at the IWK hospital didn’t find it, but they were the bearers of better news, including the sex of the babies!
A membrane, A membrane, my Kingdom for a Membrane.
Jun/091
So we’re leaving for Halifax again on Thursday morning and we have another appointment for an ultrasound on Friday morning. The two main points of this visit are 1) find the membrane! 2) find out the sex of the babies.
Finding a membrane would make the pregnancy much less of a risk, and would ease most worries about cord entaglement or twin-twin transfusion syndrome, which can happen in rare cases.
So, we’re having twins! with a catch
Jun/093
A couple of months ago, myself and Amanda found out we were pregnant again, which is fantastic news for us. Liam (our son) is also extremely happy. Two weeks ago, the pregnancy got a little more exciting: Twins. Identical twins.
Today, we found out that the twins are “MoMo twins”. “MoMo twins” is short for Monochorionic Monoamniotic Twins. MoMo twins are the rarest form of twins. In short, this just became a very high risk pregnancy, the highest possible risk for twins.