Home again…

From the Twin-Daddy:

I traveled to Denver on Tuesday to do some on-site training for a customer and didn’t get back until late Wednesday evening.  I don’t like leaving my wife alone for too long, but she is nose to the grindstone right now doing teacher stuff at the end of her academic quarter and is simultaneously cranking out PhD dissertation pages.   She made certain I knew that she had food to eat while I was gone and that helps, but I’ll try to convince her to post the story about her Wednesday morning breakfast cooking disaster later.

Coming home to a wife, a dog, and babies on board.

After I landed in Sacramento my cute pregnant wife was waiting for me at the airport in her “Twins on Board” T-shirt.  Getting home, we took the Great Dane for a quick walk around the block, started up an episode of Mythbusters, and then I promptly fell asleep on the sofa.  My wife prodded me until there was room for her to lie on me which meant she got to snuggle why I slept.  Sometimes life is pretty good.

Today is our next OB-GYN appointment this afternoon and we’re hoping to get an Ultrasound that may give us a clue to the gender.  Last night I had a dream that the babies had arrived and while a bit tiny they were very healthy and happy.  I even dreamed I found out the gender and I figure the dream has a 50-50 chance of being correct.  Trust that if we do find out we will post that here almost immediately.

It is also Twin Day here meaning we have now reached Week 15.  Our goal is at least 36 weeks and that means we are only three weeks from Halfway Home Day.

Babies Countdown – The Double Header

175 Days until September 9

• Today is Twin Week number 15 and is the next OB-GYN appointment.
• Thursday, April 1 is 17 weeks and we are expecting ultrasounds about every two weeks after this to watch out for twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome.
• Thursday, April 8 is Twin Week number 18 and Halfway Home Day.
• Thursday, April 22 is week 20 and we should be feeling regular baby kicks by then.  (By this time we should also know the gender via ultrasound provided the little ones have not been shy.)
• Thursday, May 7 and the twins become viable as early as 22 weeks.
• Thursday, May 20 and 90% of twins born at 24 weeks survive and that number only gets better from here on out.
• Thursday, August 12 and we hit our goal of 36 weeks minimum.  From here on the twins could come at any time.
• Thursday, September 9 and we hit 40 weeks.  This is our due date even if we expect the twins to possibly come sooner.
• 4 Weeks Post Delivery – Look for baby smiles.
• Sometime After the Delivery – 4.5 months of the Twinsanity Interval.