23 week appointments

My 23 week appointments with the peri and the OB were on Thursday. They went pretty well, I think. The peri was first thing in the morning, which is the way I like it because I usually don't have to wait too long. The u/s tech was very good. She took all the measurements and made sure that thing one was still a boy. Sure enough he is! There was a clear picture this time of the penis, I asked for a print out of that, but she didnt give me one. :( Then she made me empty my bladder so they could do the transvaginal one to check my cervix. As soon as she put the probe in to measure my cervix all I could see what thing one's head bumping up against the wall. It was pretty funny. She said I had a great closed cervix. Why thank you. Always what you want to hear from someone!
So I went back outside and waited for the peri to call me back. I was only in there with him for 3 minutes if that. He was like you are doing great, the babies look great and your cervix is as solid as a rock. Again, thank you! ha. He told me to come back in two weeks and then again in 10 days after that. I scheduled my appts and left.

I went to the OB about an hour and a half after I left the peri. That was just as easy. I only gained 3 pounds this time, which I am very proud of! He said my blood pressure was fine, my urine was fine, everything looked good. He went to use the doppler to find the heartbeats and he couldn't find them, so he gave me the option of going to the sonogram room or just leaving, since they were already heard that morning. I chose to see them again on sonogram. They looked so much better on his sonogram than the one earlier. But still no picture. He said he was a little worried about there being a little too much amniotic fluid around the babies, but he said better too much than too little at this point. However, the cause of too much amniotic fluid is gestational diabetes. I am going to get tested on Tuesday, so I hope that all turns out well! Yikes.

Here are the latest stats of the babies.

Thing One:
--head down this time
--measuring exactly 23 weeks
--weighing 1 pound 4 ounces
--heartrate of 138
--6.9 cm of amnio fluid
--in the 45th percentile for weight!

Thing Two:
--started out breech, then moved to transverse again
--measuring exactly 23 weeks
--weighing 1 pound 4 ounces
--heartrate of 148
--7.96 cm of amnio fluid
--in the 50th percentile for weight!

Cervix was 5.3 cm. Which was better than last time!

They appear to be doing great, so let's keep our fingers crossed that they stay like that!

Oh and the important information is that we have a c section date!!

Their birthdays will be November 19, 2009. :) Let's hope they make it!!

Still no progress on names, we have't even talked about them. One day.

All for now. I will post their 20 week pictures now.