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Thursday, March 26, 2009

We've accumulated quite a collection of glamour shots by now, some good, some eh. The UWMC ultrasound tech did several that we liked a lot, so here they are!

You can see the rib cage and knee of one girl in the top left, while her twin is in the bottom of the shot:
Although it looks like this girl is alone, that is the foot of her sister above her face:

Having two babies in the same place apparently makes 3D very tough to do. It's like a Rorschach picture - what do you see here?
The right side of the picture is one girls head, turned facing the middle, with her left hand up by her chin and her right hand a little bit in front of her face.
The left side of the picture is her sister's leg.

And my favorite - this picture shows both girls at once. There is a head on the very left and a head on the very right and between them are legs and arms, although it's tough to distinguish which limbs or whose! They are very nestled up with each other.
Because there is no membrane keeping them in their own spaces, they move around quite a bit in the amniotic sac (hence the cord risks). At one point one of them was head down all the way at the bottom. The tech moved away from her for a few minutes and when we came back the girl was head up! They label the babies based on which one is closest to the cervix that day, so baby A might be baby B the next day. At some point their growth may differ enough that a measurement would be able to tell them apart, but it's pretty close right now and I'd prefer them to stay that way!

2 comments:

Unknown said...

These are great pictures of the girls... but where is the photo of YOU! You promised me. I guess I'll look forward to a personal picture on my phone this evening :)

Unknown said...

Thanks for the Q&A Britt - saved me a lot of trouble asking every single one of those questions. Glad to see you haven't lost your sense of humor...you're gonna need it! Ha!