Madeline & Mason!

Well, I had my 16 week appointment last Thursday and my OB was able to take a very educated guess at the genders of our twins!

In her expert opinion, Baby A is a girl and Baby B is a boy!

This makes sense since Baby A has always been about 4 days smaller in growth than Baby B. This is not significant at all except that it only says that our little girl is just a wee bit smaller than our baby boy!

Also, it tells us that Madeline will be the "big" sister since she'll be born first. At this point they won't change positions as far as who comes first. They will always be moving around in the womb, but Madeline will always be lower than Mason.

In addition to finding out the sexes, the OB said that everything looks just perfect still and to keep doing what I'm doing!

My next appointment is next Thursday 10/29 at 8am with Maternal Fetal Medicine for our second trimester routine screening. Basically they'll test for all the things they tested for in the first tri, and just ensure that things still look good.

I confirmed that after this series of tests, we'll be done with all the chromosomal tests and all I'll have left are the gestational diabetes, etc. tests.

The upside is that I'll get to see the babies on the big screen again next week!
Hopefully Scott will be able to get away from the office for this appointment. It's been about two months since he's seen them!

14 Week Belly

Yikes. That's all I can say. Oh, and also that the picture is an optical illusion. My belly button has not popped out...yet. :)

First Shopping Trip!

Well, this weekend I had my first two shopping trips for the babies with my mom and sister! We first went to Babies R Us to check out strollers, carseats and furniture. We saw lots of adorable nursery ideas but left completely underwhelmed with the double stroller selection. They had about 40 regular strollers and only about 5 double strollers.

I think I want a tandem double stroller, not a side by side because of the ease of fitting through doorways and elevators, but the selection at Babies R Us was depressing. The carseats snap in the strollers but not securely at all! They just kind of sit there and are all wobbley. No bueno. The search continues. We've pretty much ruled out the Graco brand of strollers at this point for the infant stage.

On Sunday my mom and I headed to the mall and visited Nordstroms, The Children's Place, Janie & Jack and Pottery Barn Kids! We found some really good deals on adorable pj's at Nordstorms and The Children's Place but I think I'll have to start saving now for the adorable-ness that is Janie & Jack. :)

At Pottery Barn Kids I fell in love with the "Lambie" bedding collection and if we're having a boy AND a girl, I think this is going to be the nursery!

First Trimester Screening Results

Well, all looks perfect with the Greene babies! I had the scan last Tuesday and the bloodwork the same day. On the scan, as I mentioned in a previous post, they like to see the nuchal fold measurement at below 2.5mm. Baby A came in at .91mm and Baby B came in at 1.57mm. Yippee!

Then, on Wednesday, I got my bloodwork results back. Here are the test detection rates:

90 out of 100 Down Syndrome
81 out of 100 Trisomy 18
97 out of 100 anencephaly (brain does not develop)
80 out of 100 open spina bifida
85 out of 100 abdominal wall defects
60 out of 100 SLOS (physical birth defects and mental retardation)

We recieved "Screen Negative" results for all the above defects. This means that the chances of our babies having any of these birth defects is so low that we don't require any further testing other than the standard tests.

Great news!