(warning: explicit photos)
The results are in...
Baby A - girl
Baby B - boy
Baby C - girl
It's two girls and a boy! Two daughters and a son.
All babies are doing well. At 19 weeks and 3 days when we went to the doctor the babies measured:
Baby A - 19w3d
Baby B - 19w2d
Baby B - 19w2d
Baby C - 19w0d
All are still growing at about the same rate and are appropriate sizes. Each is about 6 inches, crown to rump measurement or about 10 inches, head to toe. Not yet a pound, they each weigh around 10 ozs. So far everyone appears healthy.
J is doing great though her belly is beginning to be an obstacle. She can't put her feet up to help keep swelling down and do schoolwork on the computer at the same time anymore. The laptop, to accommodate her belly, sits too far away for her arms to be comfortable typing, at the table or on her lap. We rented a hospital style table yesterday, the kind that adjusts up and down. Hopefully it will help. Only six more weeks of this semester left and then working on the computer will become optional.
If you don't want to see explicit baby genitalia on ultrasound don't look at the first three pictures below. Girls are indicated by three little lines and boys, they're a bit more obvious. Both girls were moving around and it took until the very end of the ultrasound for them to move into positions so we could tell if they were girls or boys.
19 weeks 3 days
Baby A, we saw three lines during the ultrasound but she was a little wiggly and only two of them were captured in the pic.
19 weeks 3 days
Pretty obvious Baby B is a boy.
19 weeks 3 days
Baby C, her three lines showed up better on camera.
19 weeks 3 days
Baby A looking straight at the camera and waving. She's still looking a little alien but you can see how her skull is developing. It's getting a little crowded in there and the ultrasound looks more like a jumble of moving parts now than individual babies. It is still very exciting to see each one of them moving around and get to hear each of their heartbeats.
19 weeks 3 days
Baby B, has his chin to his chest in this pic.
19 weeks 3 days
Baby C, she was moving all over. This is a great pic showing her rib cage development. Her profile is a double because she was moving.
Our next doctor visit will be the big 20 week scan (though ours will be at 21 weeks) where they will look very closely at how all the babies are developing. They will look at heart, kidneys, brain, spine, etc. Here's a link to a list of what they look for in an anomaly scan or as our perinatologist called it, the modalities scan.
