We haven’t really been blogging much about other people’s pregnancies, but Susan has had her picture in one of our blog entries. Susan’s pregnancy had been progressing at about 12 weeks ahead of Agnes’, and last weekend on Sunday, Susan delivered about 5 days early. Anything from 38 weeks to 42 weeks is considered “full […]

Today’s appointment started out with two blood tests, one for the glucose tolerance test and one for my hemoglobin level. One hour prior to the appointment I drank the sickeningly sweet sugar drink that you take prior to having the glucose level from your blood checked. Actually it wasn’t that bad, because it’s carbonated, and […]

Happy Mother’s Day to all you mothers out there. In addition to seeing the maternity ward today (some of those pregnant women were huge!), today we also reached double digits in the number of days remaining before our due date. 99 days to go!

Today we went on a tour of the maternity ward at the hospital where we will deliver the twins. It was so much fun! We got there super late, but they had just sat everyone down in a large conference room, handed out some informational flyers, and served some tea and cookies. Just before we […]

One of the risks in twin pregnancies is that they arrive early, so starting from 22 weeks or so doctors start to monitor for signs of pre-term labor. In our last OB appointment, the doctor did a test to see if fetal fibronectin (fFN) could be detected. Fetal fibronectin is a protein that helps hold […]

We’ve started to get some gifts for the kids, so we decided to show what kind of stuff we got. There’s a new link on the side of the page called “Baby Stuff” which shows pictures of everything we have so far. No, we don’t actually have the cribs yet, but they are on order […]