Week 19

Still going strong. Jenn had a little bit of worry this week as she was having some cramping around Tuesday night I believe. She went to the doctor Wed and found she had a bladder infection, which she got antibiotics for. More pain on Thursday, but different pain, a sharp stabbing, which turned out to be round ligament pain it looks like, and nothing to worry about. We figure we've passed the halfway point, seeing as how twins rarely go full term.

The course of all these she had a couple of sonograms done (we were scheduled for one anyway this week), and both babies continue to look good. Heartbeats were visible, arms were moving, etc. No attempts were really made to confirm the "It's Girls" prediction as they were just very quick checks. Sounds like we may be getting a more detailed sonogram with a high risk specialist sometime in the next few weeks.

Everything has arrived for the home theater (except for a couple of HDMI cables which should be here next week), we got a TV stand this week, it's all sitting in the basement ready to be setup. That's the task for this weekend, Dad will be coming down to help me out.

I'm going to Orlando the week of June 9-13 for an MSDN conference. After that, probably have to get serious about getting the upstairs spare bedroom cleared out, getting some of that furniture moved into our bedroom, in preparation for the nursery.

Linda found out she's having another boy the other day. They didn't seem to like my suggestion that only 3 more and they'd have their own basketball team.

Say hello to the Vogts Girls (maybe)

Jenn had another sonogram yesterday afternoon (Ruth went with her as I couldn't make it), and talked the doctor into taking a stab at finding the sex of the babies. And while he cautioned her "Don't start painting any rooms yet", he apparently did find some tell-tale signs of girls in one of the pictures.




The last picture in particular apparently shows the detail. Hard for me to see but that's why I'm not wearing a white coat right now I guess. Aside from this everything still looks fine, Jenn and Ruth got to see them moving and such, growth of both were still within expected and both are still growing at the same rate. Everything is right on track.

16 Weeks

Had a 16 week sonogram this past Thursday, a more "official" sonogram on better equipment. The pictures the machine spit out were not that great, but the machine apparently did have better resolution. Tech was able to see details like leg bones, fluid in the bladder and stomachs of both babies (which means the kidneys are now functional), measured head circumference, etc. Everything was still looking great. The measurements I saw the tech take were all coming up with late 15/early 16 week measurements, both babies were moving around. Did not find out the sex, tech did not even try, said it was way too early. Jenn will be going for another doc appt with a sonogram on the regular machine next week, and probably we will be having another sonogram on the "good" machine somewhere around the 18 or 19 week time frame.

This week Ruth is having a garage sale. We took over some of our old stuff we don't want anymore, mostly just stuff that was sitting in storage, a bunch of my old games and movies that I can't imagine what I was thinking when I bought them. As a side effect of this the basement is now pretty much cleaned out and ready for a new TV. Looking at a Sony 46" LCD model, just a matter of figuring out where to buy it from at this point.

Another sonogram

Had another sonogram Thursday afternoon. It was supposed to be next Monday but Jenn had to move it up due to work conflict. She had emailed me about it but I had completely misread the email and thought it was just a time change on Monday so kind of ignored it, then coincidentally had taken off this afternoon to go get my hair cut and run a couple other errands. I'm standing in Gamestop in the mall waiting on Mastercuts when Jenn calls me and wonders if I can make the appointment in 30 minutes. Oops.

Sonogram went fine, everything is still looking great. We saw a lot of movement out of them again this time, baby B in particular curling up and stretching out, moving their hands, etc. Jenn finds it hard to believe she can't feel anything yet with as much activity as we see on the sonograms. We have an "official" sonogram scheduled for Thursday of next week, using a machine with better resolution and such. Should have some pictures of better quality, and with a little luck we might even find out the sex as well.

~13 weeks down

Which as I found out means that we are just now passing the first trimester, and not last week when I posted. Oh well.

Sonogram this past Tuesday. Was supposed to be this past Monday but our doctor was caught at the hospital delivering a baby. We were scheduled to go to his west side office, which I did, getting there a bit early, only to find a note on the door, "We've moved to some random address on 13th street". A quick call by Jenn confirmed that their new offices are in the old Albertson's on 13th and Tyler. So we made it just in time to wait 30 minutes in the waiting room.

But the appointment was good and got us these pictures:

- Baby A
- Baby B
- Baby A and B
- Baby A Heartrate
- Baby B Heartrate
We took video too which I have not uploaded from the camera yet, but will. It didn't turn out too well as the camera was having problems focusing on the sonogram monitor, the refresh rate was noticeable through the lens and the camera kept trying to refocus, but Jenn and Ruth watched it and apparently you can see some of it OK. The little ones were quite active at times.

Everything is progressing fine, both babies had heart rates in the 150's and measured around 13.5 weeks.

Jenn continues to have a "heaviness" in her abdomen, as she describes it, which the doc confirmed was just her uterus growing. She's very anxious to feel them move. She's also quite anxious to know if they are boys or girls, going so far as offering the doc a bribe if he'd try to find out, but he flat refused. He gave us a "maybe" at our next appointment which will be around the 16 week mark. Jenn seems to be past the worst of the tiredness, but still gets a bit nauseous if she's hungry and doesn't get something in her stomach pretty quickly.

We're also getting serious about picking names. Or at least I am, as Jenn has had a list several dozen long for quite some time now.

One third of the way there

We are passing the first trimester, sometime last week/this week. Jenn has said this week that she is starting to "feel pregnant". This weekend she was feeling what I think she called a "heaviness" in her belly/abdomen, which worried her some, but a quick call to the doctor on Monday reassured her that yes, it's the uterus growing, pushing other stuff out of the way.

Jenn's still feeling tired most nights by the time she gets home, but seems to be coming through that OK, albeit slowly. For a while there she was lights out by 8:30 or 9 easy, but lately it seems like it's more "physically tired" than sleepy, as she'll lie down and watch TV until I come to bed. Nausea still present as well, but by all accounts not too bad so long as she's able to get something in her stomach when she's hungry.

I have heard that the second trimester is the "nesting" trimester, and this will likely be true for me at least. Major projects include finishing up on organizing the basement, purchasing an LCD TV/sounds system/stand for down there, moving some of the current spare bedroom furniture into our bedroom (matching stuff), moving the rest of the spare bedroom stuff downstairs to storage, and I assume painting and/or decorating the room for the babies. Plus other stuff I'm sure I'm just not thinking of right now. This weekend me, James, Becker, and maybe Ron are going over to Kevin's for a "Day of Debauchery", but after that I'll definitely have to use my weekends to get going on all the other stuff. I have a feeling May, June, and July are going to be over almost before they begin.

My 3 Pointer

Let me show you it.

Some notes about this season of KU basketball:

* 20th anniversary of the 1988 championship (as everyone knows).
* 5 years since KU was last in the finals, a loss to Syracuse (the same year Jenn and I were married).
* First overtime championship game since Arizona-Kentucky in 1997. Arizona that same year defeated overall #1 seed KU in the Sweet 16. KU's '97 team is generally considered one of the greatest KU teams of all time, featuring future NBA players Jacque Vaughn, Raef LaFrentz, Paul Pierce, and Scot Pollard, as well as Jerod Haase, Billy Thomas, and Ryan Robertson.
* And of course, this season will be remembered for one of the all time greatest quotes from my mother, "They won the year the babies were born!"

As mentioned in the opening post, Jenn is pregnant with (identical) twins. The pictures below are from about 10.5 weeks; we will likely have new pictures after our doctors appointment this Thursday from about 12 weeks (short a few days perhaps).

Long abandoned...

...it is time for this blog to have purpose again.