Luck Favors the Prepared

As soon to be first time parents, we have been looking back at all of our experiences with babies and realized that they haven't amounted to a sufficient body of knowledge. This doesn't really worry us because of all the support we have in our friends and family. Nevertheless, when we feel nervous because of everything we don't know, we seem to collect another parenting book.

Most of these books talk about similar things such as feeding, sleeping, changing, scheduling and health. My personal favorite so far is The Baby Owner's Manual by Louis (M.D.) and Joe (D.A.D) Borgenicht. This book features a parts list and chapters titled things like "Feeding: Understanding the baby's power supply" and "Programming sleep mode." Male and female babies are referred to as different models, and the mouth "makes loud noises upon delivery." I recommend this book even if you aren't expecting a child.

If anyone who reads this blog has any advice to give or questions about any of the books we are reading, please add a comment below this posting. Thank you for all your support.

The Gaggle

Week 21 Ultrasounds

Here are the ultrasound pictures from week 21 as promised. I especially like the last picture in the slide show which has baby B in a full curl.

In other twin news our surrogate went to a concert the other night and said the girls were dancing. We are going to see her this weekend... maybe we will be lucky enough to feel them kicking, though they may be too small still.

Week 21 Update

The perinatologist in Portland (cover your mouth when you say that out loud) told us that it would be a waste of time for us to make every single doctor's appointment since most of them don't last very long and not a lot of ultrasound is done.

Today was one of the ones we missed. Our surrogate gave us the following update:

"I'm doing good. Girls are great and playing. They are 13 oz each. Everything is looking great."

She also has 8 ultrasound pictures that I will post just as soon as I get a chance to pick them up. In the meanwhile to hold everyone over... here are a couple of websites which give you an idea of what babies look like in the 21st week.

http://www.pregnancyguideonline.com/wk21.htm
http://3dpregnancy.parentsconnect.com/calendar/21-weeks-pregnant.html

We are doing great, the babies are doing great, our surrogate is doing good. Its a great day for the gaggle!