24 Weeks (aka 2/3 of the way there)!

Today I had my 24 week visit which included the gestational diabetes test – yuck! I had 5 minutes to down this sugary fruit punch flavored drink and then an hour later had a blood draw to see if my blood sugar had come back down. Early on in the pregnancy Luke told me “wouldn’t it be fun if you had GD and we could be diabetic together for a little while?” Fun isn’t really the word that comes to mind.

We had been told that somewhere around the 24 week mark we could have a 3D ultrasound. The machine in the doctor’s office is capable of doing it at any time, but they didn’t want to do it before the 24 week mark because the babies would still be pretty skeletal looking up until that point.

I asked the ultrasound tech about it and with a click of a button the ultrasound flipped to 3D mode. Unfortunately the girls weren’t really cooperating (I think they were still reacting to the sugar rush), but we got a brief look at baby A before she put her arm in front of her face – she definitely looks like Luke. The face she was making is the same one that I get from Luke when I try to wake him up before he is ready. On the bright side, there is no question that these are Luke’s children (not that we were questioning it before), but I felt strangely sad that they don’t look at all like me. That may change as we see more of them, but it’s a little frustrating since I’m the one who gets the “joy” of carrying them around for 9 months.

The girls are back to lying on top of each other, so there was a jumble of arms and legs that made it hard for us to get a picture where they didn't look like aliens. Hopefully we'll get some better ones in the coming weeks, but for now here is the best one we got.

Since we just had all their measurements done a week ago, the doctor didn’t re-do them today. Fortunately there was no change to the length of my cervix this week, but the doctor wants me back in another week to get everything checked out again.