Once pointed out to you, could you actually see some stuff?

Didn't really need pointing out. Could see the face relatively clearly (one of the markers he was checking had to do with a nasal bone). He also looked at the chambers of the heart.

What was difficult was the amount of shifting both by the twins and by the sono itself. There is a fair amount of, "Which one is that?" Which, poor twins, they will have that for the rest of their lives.

The tests are interesting. There are several I'm not doing by choice because it doesn't change the decision I'm making. But yeah. plenty of them.

I've had more ultrasounds though (and I'm about ~13 weeks) than most people will have in multiple pregnancies.

Also, the fetal specialist always burns a DVD of his ultrasounds. Lori wants to put it up on YouTube and I keep thinking, But wait! That's my insides. That's WEIRD.

Which, poor twins, they will have that for the rest of their lives

Oh, so they're identical?

I've had more ultrasounds though (and I'm about ~13 weeks) than most people will have in multiple pregnancies.

There would be less as the time goes on, though, right?

the fetal specialist always burns a DVD of his ultrasounds

When a friend of mine (she just recently gave birth to her 4th child) was pregnant for the first time, she was the first person her age she knew who was pregnant, so she was extremely excited by the whole process, tests etc, as well as anything else. She made me sit through the movie of her ultrasound (it was a VCR tape, at the time, not a DVD), and muted the sound when the doctor told her if it were a boy or a girl because they were keeping it a secret. If they had YouTube at the time, she would probably have had it there, as well. Hee.

Oh, so they're identical?

Nope.

But even the non-identical twins I've taught end up being confused all the time. At least by me.

There would be less as the time goes on, though, right?

You'd think that right? It has not yet been my experience. The fetal specialist wants me to have an u/s every 3-4 weeks and it's probable that it will increase as we get further along, not decrease.

I still think the prospect of putting one of my medical exams (okay, not the whole thing, just the ultrasound) on the internet is totally messed up.

Which, poor twins, they will have that for the rest of their lives

Oh, so they're identical?

It doesn't matter if they're identical, or even three years apart. People have been getting me and my sister confused all our lives. When we were five and eight (or so) Mom took us all to get identical Dorothy Hamill cuts and then people would say, "Oh what cute boys you have! Are they twins?"

At least by me.

Well, those will be twins you won't mix up. Well, either that, or mix them up constantly, the way any parent mixes up their kids (my mom even calls us by the names of her siblings, as if she didn't have enough of us to confuse between them). [Edit: sort of x-post with Laga]

The fetal specialist wants me to have an u/s every 3-4 weeks

That's a little above average here, too. But only a little. At least, from what I know from friends. A friend of mine had a high risk pregnancy because of past miscarriages, and her exams schedule was even tighter than yours. Only it decreased with time, not increased.

Hi, Nilly!

Lori wants to put it up on YouTube and I keep thinking, But wait! That's my insides. That's WEIRD.

hahahahah, love that! Oh, and.... TWINS! So exciting!

my mom even calls us by the names of her siblings

Mom called me the dog's name once. His name was Butch.

Our family story is that once my mother ran through all the names in our family (there's only the two sisters) and got to Blueberry (the parakeet) before she got to my sister's name.

Everyone always mixed us up, and we were seven years apart, but that was because of the whole being Japanese in a tiny midwestern town thing.

And yay for the announcement! I'm so excited for the twins. Ultrasounds are completely fascinating to me.

About the publicness of it all; our friends who did in vitro had their first "baby" picture up on their fridge -- it was just cells. I remember standing mutely in front of it just profoundly moved. Something about the otherness of it all, about how amazing it is that we have this journey from just a few cells to, you know, us.

Mom called me the dog's name once. His name was Butch.

We've only had the tiny birds-in-a-cage, and nobody had to ever call them by name, the names that we gave them, which we tried to make as long and complicated as possible, so we never got there.

Whenever my mom does that, I answer "yes, SisterOfMomName".

Something about the otherness of it all, about how amazing it is that we have this journey from just a few cells to, you know, us.

I can't get over how amazing it is. It's as if all the laws of conservation are being broken in order to make this possible. Matter, energy, whatever. And yet, that's the basis of everything that can happen, well, pretty much, with everything.

Oh, and newborns are little aliens, in a way, as well. It takes time, for most of them, to become those cuddly pink adorable things, like Matilda in the pictures that Lee just posted a few posts ago. At the beginning they look and even act quite differently. It's fascinating.