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Our Daddy has learned that when he pushes on our uterus, we sometimes push back.

He has decided this means we are sophisticated enough to learn Morse code and communicate from within the womb.



No distinct messages so far, but our Mommy is somewhat less than thrilled with the increased poking from both sides of the uterus.

Honing our growing skills, week by week

We find out on Friday what our current estimated weights are, but clearly we are doing a bang-up job of usurping our Mommy's calories. Just look at us grow! Well, we are a little hard to see, but look at our Mommy's uterus grow.

It's his turn

We think our Daddy needs one of these:

Ideally the kind where you can have babies hanging off of every square inch of you. We'll invite a friend over if we have to!

Fantasy vs. reality

Our future bedroom, in our Mommy's imagination:



Our future bedroom, in reality:



Our parents have a lot of work to do.

Overheard in the uterus...

Our Daddy is a big fan of the newspaper, and he happened to read out loud to our Mommy an ad for the Milwaukee tryouts for this show:



We have never seen it, or heard our parents watch it, but we are practicing our routine on a daily basis. It's a double act with lots of kicking and tumbling.

Our Mommy has tried to convince us we will still be in utero when the auditions role around (March 20), but we keep a rigorous practice schedule just in case.

Snow days

Apparently outside of the uterus there's been a fairly substantial accumulation of snow. Because we've been rather active lately, our Mommy thinks we are spending these snowy days trying to learn this:



But in reality all we are doing is this:



Over. And. Over. And. Over. Again.

Make room in the uterus!

We have been cozy here for 26 weeks now, and we're slowly taking over.

Busy days

We are learning lots of new things as we grow.

Based on the intensity and quantity of movements we are making, our Mommy is pretty sure this is what we are learning today:

Watch us grow: January edition

Because we are twins, and because we share a placenta, we get ultrasounded frequently. Compare Baby A from January 11 and January 25 and see how much bigger we are!

January 11:


January 25 (the picture is a little blurrier, but compare head size with the previous picture. That's Baby B's arm floating above Baby A's abdomen):


Today our estimated fetal weight was almost 700 grams-- we each weigh about 1 pound 8 ounces! We continue to share our placenta nicely and both have good fluid levels.

We are very active and certain fetuses-- not to name names, but this would be Baby A-- kept kicking the ultrasound probe during our scan today. The poor ultrasound tech had to try 4 times to get a nice view of the heartrate because of all the kicking.

Our next ultrasound is in 2 weeks, and we plan to continue growing in the meantime.

Watch us grow

This is Baby B on December 21, weighing in at about 330 grams (that's 11 ounces)



This is Baby A on December 21, also at about 330 grams.



They checked to make sure all our arms and legs and other parts were forming normally and were growing like they are supposed to-- we passed on all counts!

Uterus sweet uterus

This is where we live now:



We are scheduled to stay here until May.

See what we mean about our growing prowess?

10 Fetuses

So far, growing and kicking are pretty much our only talents. We hope to develop more skills in the future.