Twins cooking nicely
So - another scan, and once again these two girls are doing fantastically well. They care little about my lumpy legs, swelling induced restricted finger, even arm movement, stiff joints and intermittent lower back spasms that without fail bring on a face worthy of a gurning competition. Another way to look at it is that they are well aware and are behaving impeccably so as not to add to my burden (woe is me…). Good girls, keep that up when you’re born please.
This time their measurements are almost identical, just one millimeter between their head sizes, and the same story with femur length and abdominal circumference. One cross slap bang on top of the other and both still slap bang on that desirable middle line on the chart. Now once again I can’t help wondering if that points to identical twins, as why would fraternals at this late stage be so similar?
Speaking of which we were told again that they weren’t due to the presence of two chorions, the outer sacs. “Oh” I said, looking out of the window, pretending to accept the well meaning nurse’s explanation. Paul’s becoming increasingly frustrated with this, and speaks of taking in some good teaching material, calling a staff meeting and giving a brief lesson on the exact permutations of twins and their amnions, chorions and placentas. Go Paul…
Such a common misconception is this, that I heard of a mother in the States recently that scooped first prize two years running for her baby sons in the ‘fraternal twins that look most alike’ competition. (Do we have those? No, didn’t think so…) The following year DNA testing found that they were in fact identical. Oops!