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Pregnant with Twins (Embarazada de Mellizos)

Filed as Classical Fencing, Destreza (Spanish swordplay), Fencing, General, Historical Fencing, Italian Rapier on February 19, 2010

My lovely wife is pregnant with twins and the first trimester officially ends on Thursday, February 25, 2010.  Of course, you want to see the pictures and I won’t deny you.

Baby Pictures

Here is the latest Ultrasound from this last Thursday:

Our twins at Week 11

Our twins at Week 11. (Click for High Resolution.)

Things seemed to be going fine with the Ultrasound when the doctor noticed some strange behavior.

Twin A turned to face Twin B so as to minimize his profile.

Twin A turned to face Twin B so as to minimize his profile.

Fortunately, I was there and was able to interpret what was happening inside Mary’s tummy.

From Twin A's invitation in 4th, Twin B attempted to find the sword in 3rd hand in 2nd. Twin B, executes a cavazione di tempo, but executes it as a feint. Twin B counterattacks in in 4th only to be parried by Twin A in 4th who responds with a riversa to the outside cheek which Twin A

From Twin A's invitation in 4th, Twin B attempted to find the sword on the outside line in 3rd with his hand in 2nd. Twin A, executed a cavazione di tempo, but executed it as a feint. Twin B counterattacked in 4th only to be parried by Twin A in 4th who responded with a riversa to the outside cheek. Twin B eluded the cut to the outside cheek by lifting his hilt into Italian sabre parry of 7th and then in a sudden transition Twin B attempted to pass and seize the off hand of Twin A with a Spanish Movement of Conclusion. Perfectly in synch with Ettenhard's theory, Twin A eluded the circular footwork with circular footwork of his own and the phrase ended.

Seriously Now…

When Mary and I got back from Spain, we got our lives back into a semblance of order and then gave it our best shot.  We got pregnant almost immediately and had a bit of a scare at 7 weeks when we thought we were out of the game for awhile.

We were scheduled for an emergency ultrasound and that’s when we discovered not only was Mary still pregnant, but that there were two little hearts beating in there.  We’re incredibly happy and things are going very well for us now.

Because of the earlier scare, we have been keeping this quiet but with the first trimester ending next week we’re lifting the veil of secrecy.  My blog has been remarkably quiet of late and that’s because a good deal of our effort has been consolidated into writing up our experiences as we go through the pregnancy on Mary’s blog.  Until today, these entries have been password protected with only immediate family having access.

The due date for a typical pregnancy would be about September 9, 2010.  With our twin pregnancy, we expect the twins to arrive sooner, sometime in mid August.

Mary’s Baby Blog

We’ve been blogging about the whole thing since we found out and you can read about it here:

If you want to read all the posts (which is not required by any stretch of the imagination), start on January 1, and use the calendar on the right to select the different dates.

We’re having a wonderful time working our way through the process.

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  1. [...] and if you haven’t seen Puck’s most recent post on his blog, take a peek: http://www.puckandmary.com/blog_puck/2010/02/pregnant-with-twins-embarazada-de-mellizos/ Posted by Mary Beginnings Subscribe to RSS [...]

    By The Accidental Appointment on February 19, 2010 9:51 pm

  2. Love the ultrasound interpretation!

    By Linda Dellett on February 19, 2010 10:08 pm

  3. Bet nobody else has an ultrasound like that one! Your babies are clever indeed and the fun starts when they get bigger and more crowded and she feels that “fencing”.

    By Myrtle on February 19, 2010 11:50 pm

  4. This is such wonderful news! I wish I lived closer to you so I could help you with the babies as much as you helped us with Kate. Are the twins Pucklings or little Meewees?

    By Therese on February 20, 2010 7:12 am

  5. Photoshop is a dangerous thing in the hands of people who do a family calendar each year.

    I’m so pleased the veil has been lifted, it’s so HARD not to tell.

    By Cindy on February 20, 2010 7:36 am

  6. We won’t have any information about gender for awhile and it is making us a bit nuts when it comes to figuring out names. We go see the Baby-Ninja next Friday and he reportedly has the high-tech imaging machines with very qualified minions to interpret it. It might still be too early to tell or maybe we learn something.

    Either way we’re happy about it and we’re decidedly neutral as far as preferences go.
    :-D

    ~P.

    By puck on February 20, 2010 9:07 am

  7. Is Mary going in for surgery to make room for the bladework for the Movement of Conclusion, or will they need to be restricted to only using certain lines of attack until after they are born?

    By Ernesto on February 20, 2010 10:17 am

  8. Congratulations!

    By Charles Blair on February 20, 2010 10:20 am

  9. HEY! I just wanted to write and congratulate you both!! I know you guys will be great parents. Congrats again!!

    -Dave

    By David Kolmel on February 20, 2010 3:26 pm

  10. Congrats again. My sister and I were a month premature. Of course I’m sure things have changed since we were born 58 years ago! Twin dynamics are interesting, especially if they are the only two children. Important to treat them equally, while allowing each one to develop individually. Dressing alike is cute for the first year only! And all the rules are different for 2 boys, or 2 girls, or a boy and a girl. By the way, parents of twins, like mine, are the most perfect parents in the world! I’m so happy for you two.

    By Lucais/Larry Bishop on February 20, 2010 5:04 pm

  11. Congrats from Academia Duellatoria!

    By Jeff Richardson on February 20, 2010 5:58 pm

  12. I’m so excited for you both. You’re going to be fabulous parents!!!

    By Mercedes/Stephanie Drake on February 21, 2010 6:15 am

  13. Felicidades a ambos, Mary and Puck!

    By Ramon Colon on February 22, 2010 11:10 am

  14. Thanks everyone for the kind thoughts and I apologize for the fencing geek humor. Still, with my healthy wife and her good genes, I can’t help but imagine these kids with swords.
    :-D

    ~P.

    By puck on February 22, 2010 2:10 pm

  15. Congratulations, Puck & Mary. You’ll be great parents. I’ve found the hardest thing is not laughing at what brats they are being while I’m trying to discipline them.
    –Russell

    By Russell Kinder on February 22, 2010 2:51 pm

  16. Good grief! And I though my boys having a surfboard and rollerblades, respectively, was bad! Though the second one did seem to be doing lunges off the bottom of my lungs toward the end…

    Massive and doubled congratulations!

    By Cerridwen on February 24, 2010 1:20 pm

  17. Wow twins!! Congratulations! That pass sounds… bumpy (for Mary) in the confined space. Perhaps either could close for a pommel strike to the face. Not very chivalrous, but then they are siblings…

    By Xeno on March 2, 2010 2:49 am

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