The Zoe and Silas Show

We had my 18-week ultrasound this morning which, as many of you know, we were VERY excited about! The scans took over an hour because they check the brain, heart, kidneys, bladder and stomach for each baby. The good news is that at this stage both babies look healthy! Yay!!! And we were able to find out the sexes for both babies.... and we are truly blessed with one boy (Baby A) and one girl (Baby B)! The pictures below are a little freaky because they take 3-D scans. The reason I chose to post these two pictures in particular is because you can see them snuggling up, head to head. In the pictures, the girl is higher up on the right and the boy is a little lower down on the left. The sonographer had a hard time imaging all of the boys organs because the girl was squishing him. "Bossy already, like her mother"...

Here is a picture of the babies at the 12 week ultrasound. They pretty much look like aliens! The baby in the top picture is "non-presenting", meaning this baby will likely be born second. I'm assuming in future ultrasounds this baby will be referred to as "Baby B". Baby B did NOT want to cooperate for the specific kind of measurement they needed to get of the fold on the back of the neck. It was lying face down and fell asleep, then it flipped to be on its head hanging like a bat with feet up (which is what its doing in the picture). I had to change positions multiple times, get up and go to the bathroom, and finally the sonographer resorted to pushing down pretty hard on my stomach for over 20 minutes until Baby B finally cooperated for the measurements! The baby in the bottom picture is “presenting”, meaning this baby is closest to my cervix and will likely be born first. Baby A was awake for the entire scan and laid perfectly still – we had those measurem...