The twins are both in the same position at the moment, lying across my belly with their heads on my left, with twin 1 under my belly button and twin 2 directly above twin 1. I was told that in the next few weeks they will probably pick a side each to lie on, but for now they are comfortable enough acting like they are in bunk beds already.
Anyway, for the last couple of weeks I have had a reoccurring dream that one of the twins is actually a girl, instead of them being both boys (like we were told at the last scan). For the most part I discounted the dreams as just crazy random sleep thoughts with no base in reality, but on a whim today I asked the sonographer to have another look at the gender. As soon as he looked at twin 1 he said it looked like it was a girl! When he told me this I was obviously very surprised (I had a little loony tunes moment, with the tweety birds flying in circles around my head) and made him check the twin over several times, (which he did after I explained that the sonographer at the last scan said that the twins were both boys). He then had a look at twin 2 and identified very, very clear boy parts (seriously, twin 2 is not shy at all) and confirmed to us that twin 2 was definitely a boy. By the end of the scan (and after a few more checks) he still thought twin 1 was a girl but said for us to be on the safe side and check again at the scan next month.
So I am not sure what to think really... is twin 1 a little girl or a boy? I guess I’ll just have to wait to see what the next scan says in 4 weeks time. Looks like I have my own little mystery to solve! Plus if twin 1 does turn out to be a girl I will have to take back my ‘in your face’ to Rob as he predicted originally that it was a boy and a girl, but I was adamant that it was 2 boys and in a fit of being declared right at the last scan I had a ‘Scrubs’ like moment and ‘in your faced’ him... I may soon be eating my words – not that it matters. Boy or girl, twin 1 is sure to be awesome, they both will be.
I don’t know what I would have done without Rob today, as I have pretty much lost my voice so I needed him to ask the consultant all the questions I couldn’t ask. Which was super helpful as otherwise I know I would have bugged my midwife with tons of questions (once my voice returns) and no matter what she said I would also have spent the next 4 weeks wondering what the consultant would have had to say, as well as driving Rob crazy over the next few weeks asking for his opinion constantly (which I may do anyway)!
I have also reached a nice milestone in my pregnancy. As I am now 24 weeks pregnant the twins are now considered 'viable' meaning that if they were born anytime from now, they would have a good chance of survival (with medical intervention)! Hooray for my viable little babies. It is a relief to get to this stage.
I have posted the scan picture that I got of them today below and I will post a bump picture update in a few days, as yes my belly is growing like crazy!
