Dem Boyz

The boys have now been in utero for 25 weeks and 3 days.

I had a mini scare last week when the technician carrying out the ultrasound had trouble finding very much fluid around Baby A. This can be a sign of twin to twin transfusion syndrome, so they have asked me to go back in again tomorrow (a week later rather than my usual two). Fortunately, the doctor came in and did manage to find a pocket of fluid and thought it was just the position of they boys are in, i.e. Baby B taking up all the room leaving Baby A with none. My OB also found some fluid when I went to see her two days later, so I'm not so worried.

Baby B has also moved onto making more alien movements. Before it was little jabs and prods, but now it's feeling him brushing past my stomach, which means I can feel actual body parts. The other night, I'm sure I could feel fingers jabbing into my side as if to say, 'Oi! No! Don't sleep like that!'

Baby A has on the whole been more subdued, but he seems to be psychic. Whenever I worry that I haven't felt him in a while, he gives me a wee bump to show he's OK. Having said that, he did go off last night and was having a crazy party in there. Maybe the boys aren't so dissimilar after all.

We've started amassing stuff now. I have about a million bottles, a bouncer, a couple of other activity things, a formula maker, a million newborn baby clothes, and a stroller frame. All were free or bought secondhand. We've also bought two cribs and mattresses new, though they are still in the boxes along with the babies' new dresser as I'm still a bit scared to be tempting fate.

The apartment now looks like a creche.