Did Yesterday Really Happen?

As soon as the ultrasound tech put the wand on my belly, she asked, "Have you had any other ultrasounds?"

I said, "No, this is the first one this pregnancy."


She put this up on the screen

and asked us if we saw anything interesting.

Jonathan immediately said, "There's two!" And she said, "Yep there's two."

Those are their two little chests- the little black holes inside the grey blobs are their hearts.


This was the part when I covered my face shaking, crying and feeling like I was going to pass out. We were in there an hour measuring everything and I don't remember anything. I know that they were 9oz (Baby A) and 8oz (Baby B) and they looked perfect. The tech saw two sacs which is good but she thinks its only one placenta. We'll have a better idea when we have a Level 2 ultrasound at Maternal Fetal Medicine on Dec 2.


We had NO IDEA that there were twins. Not expecting that at all. Looking back we can see how this pregnancy was slightly different but not in any major way. We joked about it all the time. Just before we went in for the ultrasound, J looked at my belly and said, "I don't think its big enough for there to be two." I agreed. Totally kidding and never really expecting to actually see two heartbeats, lots of arms and legs and boy parts. The ultrasound tech said it had been two years since she had someone come in for an anatomy scan and find out that they were having twins. She said that I was the furthest along that she had ever diagnosed twins (18.5 weeks). Edited: We now know of a few twins in the family but twins do not run in the family.