16 week ultrasound

We went to the high risk doctor on Thursday for an ultrasound. We'll go every two weeks for now, so they can check the babies' sizes, fluids and my cervix. Anyway, the appointment went well. The tech really likes looking at our babies in 3D, so we got a bunch of good shots of them in 3D. See below...

The tech started with a vaginal ultrasound to check my cervix. It was exactly how it's supposed to be. She said it looked great. Thank goodness! Then she switched over to the abdominal ultrasound to take a look at the babies. It was neat when she was doing the vaginal one, though, you could see a little leg kicking. It's amazing that we used to be able to see both babies clearly with the vaginal ultrasound and now all we could see was one leg. They've grown so much!

Baby A was quite active during the ultrasound, as usual, while Baby B was calmer. It appeared to be shielding itself from Baby A at times. They're very close in there- to the point that they almost looked like their arms were intertwined, although we know they can't be.

The heartbeats looked good, they were both in the 140s, which is slower than in previous ultrasounds, but still good. She took a bunch of pictures of them in 3D and then went on to do the measurements. Interestingly, they measure the bellies of both twins at this point. They do this to insure that they're growing equally. Apparently, the first place you can see signs on twin-to-twin transfusion is in the bellies. But both of their bellies are measuring the same- YAY! They're both measuring almost a week ahead. We were at 16 weeks 5 days and the babies were measuring 17 weeks 4 days.

Everything looks good for now. We go see Dr. Hodges on Tuesday and then go back for another ultrasound in two weeks. Now we just have to decide if we're going to check on the gender at that ultrasound...

I went shopping with Beth and Mollie yesterday. I think we're going to have my baby shower on April 5th. That's not too far away. Ben and I really need to get registered sometime soon. We'll probably start that process next weekend since Ben doesn't have to work.