Read the previous post to find out why I asked a midwife if I was supposed to shove a little plastic stick in my vagina. Read this post for more about the appointment!
Got the results for the combined Nucal test. This allows each baby to be given a risk factor for Down’s Syndrome. Both were low risk. The midwife said low risk is normally categorised as 1 in 800 babies. One baby was 1 in 4900, and the other was 1 in 4300. Little shining stars.
We also got to hear the heartbeats via doppler – she warned us they might still be too little to do so, but we got ‘em both…after some hunting around. She found Baby T’s eventually, and then I felt him/her flip away and she lost it again. She managed to find it again after awhile, and it was a nice strong heartbeat. Baby M also wasn’t playing ball – but instead of running away from the probe, she/he kept kicking it! Incredible.
This fits with what we imagine their personalities to be like.
So.
Names.
I had a dream when I was five weeks pregnant (before I had the emergency scan after being run over and found out it was twins) that we went in for a scan. Both babies were boys. The first was big, the second smaller but very well defined – he actually talked to me through the scan.
This was a nice dream, if a little funky. The disturbing part is what their names were in the dream. Names we would NEVER call a baby, even for pretend, and somehow…well, they’ve stuck. Don’t worry. We’re not going to name them these names. But I think the babies are stuck with them until August.
Baby 1 is on my lower left side. His/her name? Mano.
Baby 2 is higher up and on the right. His/her name? Torre.
Both with ludicrous Spanish pronounciations. I know.
In other news, we’re apparently ‘planning to deliver’ at 38 weeks pregnant, as the babies will be mature and I will be ‘very fed up’ by that point. The consultant was very pro vaginal birth, assuming they were both head down, so that was nice. I can’t help but note that 38 weeks is 11 August. Our anniversary (nine years!) is 15 August. Crazy stuff.
Tags: actualize, baby, doppler, dream, dreams, due date, flair, heartbeat, scan
February 27, 2009 at 4:54 pm |
Hey hun congratuilations on the twins! I love the blog – best of luck to you for the rest of the prgnancy! If you want to share twin stories here is a really great place to parents of multiple births to chat http://my.bounty.com/forums/Subject/180/1/1/Twins-or-more.htm xxx
February 27, 2009 at 9:18 pm |
I am glad the testing went well! My daughter, who happens to be adopted, has Down syndrome and I wouldn’t have it any other way. I know no parent would “wish” for their child to have a disabilitity, but I can’t imagine her any other way! I just found your blog and look forward to greeting the little ones via their blog!
March 1, 2009 at 9:50 am |
I know what you are saying. I said to TMD that, ironically, this was the only screening test offered at this point – but the ‘disability’ I would be happiest with would be Downs! We just saw the scan as another opportunity to see their little tootsies on the big screen. Nice meeting you!