We wasted no time to visit the Doctor's office once we discovered we were pregnant again. We wanted to make sure everything was going well so far. The Doctor understood our eagerness and did an ultrasound right in his exam room. The machine he was using a little older so the picture was not very clear. He scanned the belly and showed us our baby and said that the blinking light was the baby's heartbeat, but in corner of the scan there was another flashing light. Hmm?
I said, "Are we having twins?"
He said, "Thanks for stealing my thunder."
Shocked we were.
He then sent us to an off site facility to determine which type of twins we were having; identical or fraternal. It was discovered that we were having identical twins, because both babies were located in the same placenta, but with separate amniotic sacs (monochorionic/diamniotic). It was then that it really dawned on us that our family would soon be a family of 6! My wife seemed to take the news well, except for the fact that she would have to trade in our Jeep Cherokee for a much despised mini van!
