The easiest way to figure out if these twins are fraternal or not would be to discover that we are having one girl and one boy. What do you think? See the poll on the side and vote.
Yesterday, Michael came downstairs and said, "You are having two girls." He said he had dreamed it and was pretty certain God was delivering the message to him to say, "Get over it!" I asked later on how certain he was that they were both girls and he said he was 85% certain.
I personally think he had the dream just because so many people have commented on how it would be "karma" for Michael to get twin girls (thank you carolyn, jason and tracy) or poetic justice. To further understand why they feel this way, see an email below, back from when we were pregnant with Riley. He sent this to his sisters. (I left the spelling as Michael originally did it)
"Ow and metioned to God after you ask for the baby to be born healthy and the mother to come through everything okay, ask that it be a boy. Just if you can fit it in there, obviously not as important as the other request, but just in case God is feeling extra generious."
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Sunday, April 10, 2011
Is it wrong to wish triplets on my friends??
What do you think? You are probably wondering if you are the friend I am wishing it on? I have actually narrowed that wish down to a couple people...still wondering if it is you? I will settle for another set of twins if that makes you feel better! The first time I went through pregnancy I had several dear friends going through it all at the same time and one of my best friends had a 1 year old (my god-daughter) so I had alot of guidance...now this time around I have friends who are pregnant with me...but I really want someone else to be learning about multiples...so they can teach me!
I am honestly to tired to sit and read when I get home from work, so I have only gotten about 60 pages into my multiples book, and Gie Gie is super busy trying to get settled into their new house that they are in the process of buying...not to mention all of the sewing she has to get done! We recently realized that we only have one Christening gown! So now she is working on trying to get another one created to go with the one she made before my cousin Caroline was born. She has her work cut out for her!
So I first said we know that these twins are fraternal, I was wrong. They are most likely fraternal, but we cannot know that for sure yet. I first said multiples do not run in our families, and then we thought maybe their was a link, but now we are back to there not being a link! It is all very confusing. So below I am going to share some info I stole off another mothers blog who has fraternal twins. Her research matches up with what I have read so far:
-The average woman has a 3% chance of having twins, this is a 1 in 89 chance. (There is magic math involved here...I know this makes no sense but it is what i have read)
-Most likely these twins are fraternal because they are in seperate sacs with seperate placentas. Identical twins are more likely to have shared placentas or sacs depending on when the egg splits. However, if the egg splits in the first three days while it is traveling down the falopian tube then you can have seperate sacs, so at this point we cannot know for sure!
-Fraternal twins are hereditary. Identical are not.
-Identical twins are a complete fluke and doctors do not fully understand why it happens.
-The fraternal twin gene can be passed down to children either by the father or the mother. However, a man carrying the gene cannot effect the outcome of his own children being multiples.
-The fraternal twin gene does not skip a generation. If a woman is a fraternal twin, she's more likely to have fraternal twins.
Now this last little bit I am stealing from another blog, and I am going to be reading more on it, because I do not fall into either of these categories as far as we can figure.
-In order for a woman to get pregnant with fraternal twins, she would have to have the gene somewhere in her family (in most cases). Otherwise, it would most likely be due to fertility treatments. The gene, or the fertility treatments cause a woman to produce excess amounts of FSH, the follicle stimulating hormone, therefore allowing her to release 2 or more eggs at a time.
For those of you who heard me say that we found out multiples do run in the family...I was wrong. Two of Grandmary's syblings did have multiples, one a set of identical triplets, and another a set of twins. However, these were both brothers of hers and therefore the multiple gene was in the mother who is not a blood relative of mine. So I am still just a random 3 percenter.
Anybody know anything else they want to teach me about twins? Anything above sound incorrect? And I promise to post some pictures soon, so Michael don't bother with your snarky comments!
I am honestly to tired to sit and read when I get home from work, so I have only gotten about 60 pages into my multiples book, and Gie Gie is super busy trying to get settled into their new house that they are in the process of buying...not to mention all of the sewing she has to get done! We recently realized that we only have one Christening gown! So now she is working on trying to get another one created to go with the one she made before my cousin Caroline was born. She has her work cut out for her!
So I first said we know that these twins are fraternal, I was wrong. They are most likely fraternal, but we cannot know that for sure yet. I first said multiples do not run in our families, and then we thought maybe their was a link, but now we are back to there not being a link! It is all very confusing. So below I am going to share some info I stole off another mothers blog who has fraternal twins. Her research matches up with what I have read so far:
-The average woman has a 3% chance of having twins, this is a 1 in 89 chance. (There is magic math involved here...I know this makes no sense but it is what i have read)
-Most likely these twins are fraternal because they are in seperate sacs with seperate placentas. Identical twins are more likely to have shared placentas or sacs depending on when the egg splits. However, if the egg splits in the first three days while it is traveling down the falopian tube then you can have seperate sacs, so at this point we cannot know for sure!
-Fraternal twins are hereditary. Identical are not.
-Identical twins are a complete fluke and doctors do not fully understand why it happens.
-The fraternal twin gene can be passed down to children either by the father or the mother. However, a man carrying the gene cannot effect the outcome of his own children being multiples.
-The fraternal twin gene does not skip a generation. If a woman is a fraternal twin, she's more likely to have fraternal twins.
Now this last little bit I am stealing from another blog, and I am going to be reading more on it, because I do not fall into either of these categories as far as we can figure.
-In order for a woman to get pregnant with fraternal twins, she would have to have the gene somewhere in her family (in most cases). Otherwise, it would most likely be due to fertility treatments. The gene, or the fertility treatments cause a woman to produce excess amounts of FSH, the follicle stimulating hormone, therefore allowing her to release 2 or more eggs at a time.
For those of you who heard me say that we found out multiples do run in the family...I was wrong. Two of Grandmary's syblings did have multiples, one a set of identical triplets, and another a set of twins. However, these were both brothers of hers and therefore the multiple gene was in the mother who is not a blood relative of mine. So I am still just a random 3 percenter.
Anybody know anything else they want to teach me about twins? Anything above sound incorrect? And I promise to post some pictures soon, so Michael don't bother with your snarky comments!
A Day Out with Thomas April
Yesterday, Michael and I took Riley to Calera for "A Day Out with Thomas". Riley now considers himself to be quite the world traveler having been to the famous and imaginary Island of Sodor. For those of you who are not aware the Island of Sodor is where Thomas the Tank Engine and all of his other engine friends live and work. We met the McElroys there and the kids had a blast. Below are some of the pictures from our outing.
Thursday, April 7, 2011
On Tuesday
Monday, April 4, 2011
Thursday, March 31, 2011
11 Weeks
Today we had a doctors appointment. Baby A was measuring 11 weeks and 2 days and had a heart rate of 184, Baby B was measuring 10 weeks and 6 days and had a heart rate of 175. I asked Dr. Kouri about the difference in their measurements and he said it was more likely a human error in measurimg because the difference between their sizes is millimeters. And, they have moved closer in measurements. Last time they were 4 or 5 days apart and this time they are 3 days apart. Dr. Kouri said it is normal for them to measure differently and that there is no reason for concern until later in the pregnancy if they start measuring multiple weeks apart, say, 29 weeks and 34 weeks.
Anyway, here are there pictures:
Anyway, here are there pictures:
If you are curious about the way they are sitting, Baby A is lower than Baby B, and they are facing each other in the womb...not that they can see each other! Baby A was wide awake and bouncing up and down dealing with a case of the hiccups when this picturewas taken and Baby B was all curled up tightly sleeping. Our ultrasound tech, poked at Baby B and woke him/her up for a second, but then he/she settled right back down and went to sleep again.
Thursday, March 24, 2011
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