Thursday, September 4, 2008

NEW INFO, NEW POLL

So I found out yesterday at my appointment that unless we do some VERY expensive testing there is no REAL way to know if our babies are identical or not. Obviously if one is a boy and one is a girl they are NOT identical no matter how much they look like each other. :D If one has brown eyes and one has blue eyes: not identical, etc. But just because they look a lot alike and even exactly alike, unless we do the tests we still wouldn't know for sure that they were identical. (Of course most people don't do the testing because if their sons or daughters look exactly alike they're satisfied enough to call them identical.) But I changed the poll. The last one ended in 13 votes: 2 for identical girls, 2 for fraternal girls, 1 for identical boys, 2 for fraternal boys and a whopping 6 for 1 boy, 1 girl. I tried to just add these votes to the new poll but couldn't figure it out. So vote again if you want but I'll add the last votes to the final count later. We find out next month at our perinatologist appt what we're having. (Yes, we get two doctor appointments each month just as an extra precaution for the babies.) I can't wait. In other baby news, Baby A has a health heart rate of 160 and Baby B of 170!! (According to some old wives tale I found on line, this is an idicator toward girls.) Both are doing really well so far. In other body news, I have gained 8 inches around my waist (just above the hip bones near the belly button) and I continue to grow about an inch a week. If I continue at this rate I will add at least 21 more inches to my tummy but I've got a feeling it's going to grow bigger and faster than that. So I'm looking at tripling my original waistline. Hopefully I'll be as lucky with the stretch marks as I was last time. Pictures to come!

6 comments:

Christina said...

I'm still in shock that you are having twins! So exciting! I vote 2 boys!

Mosley Family said...

"I can just hear you getting fatter"...love ya! You are going to be THE cutest prego chick! No worries! I have a friend who has 5 1/2 kids of those, there are 2 sets of twins. She had both sets naturally and full-term. She sent me this video she is in and I thought you'd be interested...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7E-wULAaD50

Good luck with everything!

Sara Walker said...

I totally think you are going to have 2 girls. That's wonderful that their heartrates are so great. -Hey, the bigger the better. You will look darling no matter what. I think if you didn't get stretch marks with Miles then you won't with the twins -I think it has more to do with your genetic makeup than anything (hence the reason I did get one ugly stretch mark above my belly button with Ella...) -Totally worth it though!!

TheKeilShpeel said...

I don't know why but I say they are going to be boys. I don't I wouldn't worry about your body..look how amazing you look after one kid.

Becky said...

That heart rate thing was true for all of my pregnancies, the boys were always lower - in the 130's I think. can't wait to see the pictures!

Naomi said...

Ok, I still think "one boy, one girl...two hearts beating wildly!" haha....I can't wait to find out!!!