Jack and Jill

Those who haven't heard, we had our ultrasound (almost 2 weeks ago now!) It was on Max's birthday and I have never felt so much anxiety! We took Max to McDonald's for his birthday and then headed over to the Dr.'s office. My doctor doesn't do the big ultrasound so that the tech. can take more time with everything. After more waiting (of course) we went into the ultrasound room and got started. Now I know their job isn't just to figure out what you are having but as most of us know that is the #1 question- I guess along with, "Is everything OK?" So we start on the first baby and everything looks great. She says that it looks as if they were sharing a placenta which can only mean identical twins. She was very perplexed by the placenta as we later figured out I was having a contraction (non-labor) at the same time and she was confused by a separate mass. Then she continued on with baby A and discovered that it was a boy! She said that she was going to finish everything on that baby before she went to the next one (I was frustrated with that.) She kept mentioning that they were sharing a placenta so I said "That means identical twin boys right?" She then decided to go and check the gender on baby B. She took a look and said "yep! another boy!" My heart sunk a little. I had felt that it was a boy and a girl since I got pregnant and it was hard to let go of what I had been feeling. I should be use to it by now as I thought both of my boys were girls. Josh could tell that I was a little sad and he came to comfort me saying: "it will be fine, we know how to do boys." I had told myself that if it was both boys that I could be upset for a few minutes but I knew I would fall in love with the idea eventually. As Josh was comforting me she stopped and said, "wait a second, I think I was checking the same baby, they are really close- hold on" she then confirmed that she was in deed checking the same baby and decided to check the other baby. The she said, Oh wait, wait- this one is a girl! I was so excited- exactly what I had thought and wanted. She said that their placentas might have fused together or they might just not be able to see the brake. Everything looked healthy and good! After Josh took the print outs and sat down with Turner to explain what was in the pictures, Turner came over to me and said "I get a baby brother and a baby sister!" He is very excited and every time we go to the store he wants to buy something for them. We are pretty excited too!