The Barker Blogs: Twins At 18 Weeks

Today was my 18 week doctors appointments. I had two appointments today. The first one was with Dr. Moore at 11:15 and the second was with Dr. Richardson at 2. We dropped Liam off at Ryan's parents house because it is so much easier to go without a 2 year old! We left early because I had bought some carseats from a girl on Craigslist and we were meeting her husband before we went to the appointments. I was skeptical about buying them used but after talking to the girl I was sure these were in good condition. This time around I am not as picky due to the fact that I have to buy everything in pairs. Plus, throw in building a house on top of that! So I figured that getting 2 carseats for $150 instead of paying $180 a piece for them was a deal! Here is a picture of them! I love them! It's hard to tell but they are orange and grey not red and grey.

Here is what it is going to look like in public. Lord, please help me!

I have made some awesome twin mommy friends who have sold and given me some great things! This snap and go stroller was one of the things that was given to me!

Dr. Moore was happy with my progress. She said all my labs were good except she wanted to monitor my TSH level a little more. So I had my blood drawn again. She said that I will redo my glucose test around my 26 week appointment so I'm not out of the gestational diabetes woods yet! I had a quick ultrasound at her office to look at their heartbeats. Both are beating like they should!

After that appointment we ate at our favorite place to eat right now, Firehouse Subs. If I wasn't pregnant with twins and in the middle of building a house, I would invest in one of those in Manchester. If you haven't tried it then you need to next time you are in Murfreesboro. We stopped by Sam's to get some water and Old Navy to waste time before our next appointment to picked up Liam more pajamas. Then it was time for our next appointment.

Dr. Richardson wasn't in his Murfreesboro office today so we didn't to talk to him. We had our ultrasound to look at all of their body parts to make sure both were growing accurately and evenly. I don't see how they know what they are looking out. Being in the medical field I can sometimes figure out what things are but I just don't get how they know where to move the transducer to know where to look for things. It blows my mind! But we got some good pictures and they both weigh 8 ounces each. They were once again confirmed that they were boys! We see him back in 2 more weeks for another ultrasound. We were told that we will eventually do an Echocardiogram of them both to check their hearts. She said that at 20 weeks their hearts are the size of quarters so anywhere after 20 weeks we will look into doing that. All in all it was a good appointment day. Everything seems to be going the way they should. Hoping for an uneventful pregnancy and delivery!

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