Intelligender

I did the intelligender test today...and of course I screwed it up. Something like this is always bound to happen to me, but after I put the pee into the cup (you have to put in an exact amount with a syringe) I dropped the container on the floor! Thank goodness it only has a SMALL hole in the top so it didn't spill, but it definitely shook up the contents and the directions specifically say DO NOT SHAKE....of course, right? So, I don't know if its accurate or not, but the result we got was GIRL. For twins that means they are both girls, whereas if you get a boy result that means that one or both babies could be boys. Scott seems very certain that we are not having 2 boys. He thinks its either one of each or 2 girls. Of course, we can't come up with another girl's name because those are the most difficult for us. I was planning on sharing our name choices after the ultrasound, but then I thought maybe I should wait since we needed to pick out 2 more names. I guess I will go ahead and share the two that we are pretty much set on. I REALLY hope we will decide on 2 more names before the ultrasound on March 11th because I want to start calling them by their names. Anyway, the names we picked before we knew we were having 2 are:

May Adeline Childs

Brennan Levi Childs

I also want to say that May is my great grandmother's name (and she is going to be a great great grandmother for the first time with our babies). Adeline is Scott's grandmother's name and although we did not know when we picked this name, she has liver cancer and probably will not be with us much longer. Brennan is Scott's middle name and we have been set on that name since before we were married. That was the easiest for us to decide. Levi is a name that we actually really liked for a first name, but we decided to use it for the middle name (as of now) because we thought things might get confusing with my name being Leah and our nephew being Lee. That's alot of similar names to have in one very close family. I will let you know our other names when we decide them. I would like for all of us to be able to refer to the babies by their names and even more importantly, to pray for them by their names.

As far as other news, we have been able to listen to both babies hearbeats with the doppler. It seems that I was listening to baby B. B is easier to find still and is higher up. Also, B's heartbeat is usually louder, although this morning A was really loud. They both have about the same rate of 150-160 (so maybe 2 girls?).

I am going to be looking for a good book about twin pregnancy. If anyone knows anyone who had twins and had a good book, let me know. I also am starting to really think about more things...the fact that I may not be able to work up until the babies are born (sometimes twin pregnancies require bedrest), the fact that these babies could be born early and our time will dwindle quickly for getting everything prepared. I feel like I need to have everything set up by 34 weeks just to make sure. I truly hope that the twins will wait to make their entrance until close to 36 weeks at the earliest, but I know that twin pregnancy can be very stressful on the body, so I want to be realistic. Also, I am kinda sad that I probably will need a c-section. Not many twins deliver vaginally these days, so my chances aren't great. And, you know I am super cautious because I have seen the bad things that can happen, so if one of them is breech I will not take the chance of delivering vaginally. But, I am trying to take things as they come for now. Reading up on some stuff can't hurt though.