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We heard the babies’ hearts beat for the first time today!

It looks like I’ll be doing all of my antenatal (pre-natal for those in the colonies) care at the local hospital so they can keep a closer eye on the three of us (normal care in the UK would be to alternate back and forth between appointments with my GP (family doctor) and a midwife (they are big on midwives here), only going in to the hospital for scans).

Today we met with the consultant, which means a senior doctor (get this, when you get to be a consultant, they stop calling you “Dr” and start calling you “Mr” and “Ms” again. I was so confused when we made the appointment with “Ms S—–”, wondering why we weren’t seeing a proper doctor!). She informed us that we are having the “best kind of twins” (at least from a medical perspective) as they each have their own placenta and amniotic sac (dichorionic and diamniotic, in twinspeak (which I am learning!) — i.e. probably fraternal).

The babies are a lot higher than they were three weeks ago, now sitting up by my belly button (people, you should see my stomach — it’s bigger EVERY. DAY. Everyone give three cheers to a friend from work who brought me all of her maternity clothes, without which I would have nothing to wear. For real. I would have to call out of work naked). One of their heartbeats is faster than the other, but both are apparently normal (Normal — I have never loved that word so much as I do these days!). It wasn’t as breathtaking an experience as when we saw them in the ultrasound a few weeks ago, but nonetheless, it is definitely amazing to have more evidence that there really are two little people inside of me!

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