Week 15 and Week 16
I am doing two weeks in one because these weeks were so perfect and beyond uneventful!! Everything has been going great. My next appointments are scheduled for February 21st with both the Maternal Fetal Specialist and my regular OB. I have completely switched around on this pregnancy. I was so sick before, now I feel like eating all of the time. But it is funny because I am VERY picky on what I eat. And I already am one of the world’s pickiest eaters, and both of my guys will tell you that is the truth for sure!!!!!!
I am feeling much more relaxed and have definitely felt movement!! It isn’t a lot, just a bit of fluttering here and there. I feel Baby A (who is on my right side) much more than I feel Baby B. It is amazing that they are finally big enough to be getting felt when they move!!! I love the feeling and try nightly to get them to be felt through my stomach. I can’t wait until the guys get to come and feel this with their own hands. I am sure they won’t want to move when they are feeling them.
On Valentine’s Day, I decided to take my very first belly shot. I know it isn’t much, but I think I am at that point where I finally have a bit of a pop. So here is the belly shot:
On Valentine’s Day, I decided to take my very first belly shot. I know it isn’t much, but I think I am at that point where I finally have a bit of a pop. So here is the belly shot:
On to week 17!! Wow….week 17!!!! I can’t believe we are almost near the half way mark!!!
Week 15:
Your appetite may be growing and you do need all the proper nutrition you can get for your baby twins.
By week 15 of your twin pregnancy your may feel some movement. Your babies are more active inside uterus and some may even be sucking thumbs.
Babies' eyebrows are starting to grow as well as the hair on their heads. Babies veins are visible through their thin skin. Your babies are getting covered with fine hair or what is technically known as lanugo.
Depending on the type of twins your are carrying, especially if they share one placenta, or if your twin pregnancy is categorized as high risk for any reason, you will be having more ultrasounds from now on.
Here is a bit more about week 16:
By 16 weeks, your twins will grow to 6 inches/ 14.2 centimetres long from crown to rump. They now weigh about 7 ounces/ 190 grams each. Your twins' unique fingerprints are already in place. And when you poke your stomach gently and they feel it, your twins will start rooting and sucking whatever is in front of their mouths, whether it is a hand, foot or an umbilical cord. This sucking reflex will give them the training they need for breastfeeding after birth.
If one or both of your twins are girls, they will now have approximately 2 million eggs in their ovaries; and they will have only a million by the time they're born. They will have fewer eggs as they get older, and by age 17, the number will have dropped to 200,000.
The fetuses' bodies are now growing faster than their heads. Your twins' parchment-thin skin covers itself with thick, downy hair called lanugo. Though eyebrows are beginning to grow and the hair on top of the head is sprouting, this hair may change in both texture and colour after birth.
Their legs are growing longer than the arms now, fingernails are fully formed and all the joints and limbs can move. You may be able to find out the sex of your babies by ultrasound now, since the external genitals may be developed enough that a sonographer can tell you if your twins are boys or girls.
At 16 weeks your twins' skeletons are mostly rubbery cartilage, which will harden later. A protective substance called myelin slowly begins to wrap around the spinal cord.
Their chests move up and down to mimic breathing but they're not taking in air, only amniotic fluid. They also start to have hiccups. Hiccups are an essential reflex used to train their diaphragms, the muscles they need for breathing when they are born.
If one or both of your twins are girls, they will now have approximately 2 million eggs in their ovaries; and they will have only a million by the time they're born. They will have fewer eggs as they get older, and by age 17, the number will have dropped to 200,000.
The fetuses' bodies are now growing faster than their heads. Your twins' parchment-thin skin covers itself with thick, downy hair called lanugo. Though eyebrows are beginning to grow and the hair on top of the head is sprouting, this hair may change in both texture and colour after birth.
Their legs are growing longer than the arms now, fingernails are fully formed and all the joints and limbs can move. You may be able to find out the sex of your babies by ultrasound now, since the external genitals may be developed enough that a sonographer can tell you if your twins are boys or girls.
At 16 weeks your twins' skeletons are mostly rubbery cartilage, which will harden later. A protective substance called myelin slowly begins to wrap around the spinal cord.
Their chests move up and down to mimic breathing but they're not taking in air, only amniotic fluid. They also start to have hiccups. Hiccups are an essential reflex used to train their diaphragms, the muscles they need for breathing when they are born.
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