Based on a friend’s warning that it takes something like 10+ weeks for a crib to be ordered, we went shopping today for a crib. Although the twins might be able to sleep in a single crib side-by-side for the first month or two, we knew we would need two. They do make specialty twin […]

We had another OB appointment today. It’s a little before twenty five weeks, but I thought I would call it our twenty five week appointment anyway. At our last appointment, the doctor only did a cursory ultrasound to make sure that the fetuses both had enough fluid. This time, she also checked to see that […]

Two nights ago I had my hand on Agnes’ stomach as I was going to sleep. Agnes was already asleep. I felt a small thump against my hand from her left side. By now we would have expected to feel some kicking, but I wasn’t sure if this was it. I felt more carefully and […]

A few weeks ago on April 1, at twenty-one-and-a-half weeks, I had a fetal echocardiogram done. The fetal heart can be examined by ultrasound, similar to an adult echocardiogram, and it is done not by obstetricians, but by pediatric cardiologists. Dr. Dave Atkinson, who was my attending when I was a pediatric resident, and Ning […]

Last Friday we had another doctor’s appointment. The appointment started with some basics — a urine sample, a weighing and a measurement of blood pressure. With this appointment, Agnes has just about caught up to me in weight. At the start of the pregnancy, I outweighed Agnes by about twenty pounds. She says that after […]

We recently got a picture from a friend who is 24 weeks pregnant and thought that it might be nice to show what Agnes’ pregnancy looks like these days. Until now we’ve pretty much only been posting ultrasound pictures. There was one picture of Agnes last week in the post about the body pillow, but […]

So far this pregnancy has been relatively painless, but I am starting to feel some back soreness, especially when I wake up in the morning. One of my coworkers recommended a body pillow, which is basically a long pillow which supports your back, cushions between your knees, and supports your neck as well. Bernard insisted […]