15 Week BELLY Bump Picture

Here I am getting stabbed in the stomach by Saylor! Someone asked me the other day why I crop my face out of all the belly shots and there are a few reasons. (1) I have 4 inches of dark roots that need to be colored soon, (2) I usually take pictures in the morning before I get too big and bloated (and am not picture pretty early in the am), and (3) I am on a few multiple boards where you post belly pics, without a face shot.

The boys are about 4.5 inches now and are moving around like crazy. I don't feel it much, but seeing how active they are on the ultrasound made me a little nervous of the "movements" and "kicks" that are about to come soon. I've heard stories of twins/multiples causing internal and external bruising..... yikes! Twin B had a heartbeat of 150 at the last appointement and Twin A had a heartbeat of 135. I guess part of being "high risk" and seeing a Peri also means I see a genetic specialist. Not sure the reasons why, but with Keller's eye mutation, we'll happily accept it as part of this pregnancy. We've already declined the AFP and amnio tests with the specialist simply because even if our boys had a defect or disease, we wouldn't choose to abort them. The Dr. also noticed a possibility of the boys sharing a placenta. He wasn't sure, but well know soon enough with our visit to the Peri in a few weeks. Please pray with us that they are in separate placenta's, because sharing just one opens it up to a whole mess of problems ranging from cords being tangled to TTTS. There are quite a few websites that lead you to believe that a shared placenta indicates identical twins, but we won't truly know until they are born or even after!

Kingsley and I have attempted a few conversations regarding the names, but by his suggestions (Hans and Frans, or Remis and Romeulus) he appeared WAY TOO TIRED for those conversations.

On a side note, I got their crib set up today and it was so fun to see BLUE again. I feel like I just put all my pink stuff away and it was fun to see all the boyish blue stuff again! Saylor thinks I set the bed up for her and wants to sleep in the crib tonight... should be interesting!