Growth Ultrasound #3

This morning I had another growth ultrasound with the Maternal Fetal Medicine Specialist.  These ultrasounds are very long since they measure both babies in depth.  The ultrasound tech comes in and does a 45-60 min ultrasound first and starts with measuring the cervix, looking at the membrane, umbilical cord and placenta.  She documents positioning of both babies, which today both babies were head down kind of in a c shape.  It is fun to see both heads together.  I never get any pictures, but she takes a lot (doesn't print them).  She moves onto looking at one of the babies first and today she started with baby b.  She measures the femur bone, abdominal cavity (both kidneys, looks for bladder, stomach), chest cavity (heart chambers, blood flow), head (different spots in the head, brain).  Fluid around each baby is very important and today Baby A was 5 cm and baby B around 7 cm which is both good.  I got a little peak at one of the baby's face today and the cheek bones reminded me of Brooklyn.  Usually I don't see a good shot of the face since they only measure the important parts of the baby. 
When the ultrasound tech is done with all of that, I wait 5-10 min for the doctor to come in and then he spends a good 30-45 minutes measuring other things that are important for him to see.  He really goes in depth on the blood flow which is very important for twin to twin transfusion.  During the ultrasounds, there is a way you can see the arterial and venous blood flow and it shows on the screen red and blue, but when they put this setting on, the babies DO NOT LIKE IT!!!  They kick and move around like crazy!  

Today both babies heart rates were in the 150's and the sizes are:  
Baby A 1 lb. 2 oz. measuring at 23 weeks 1 day
Baby B 1 lb. 9 oz. measuring at 23 weeks 5 days.

Tomorrow I will be 25 weeks so both babies continue to be a little behind, but they have been this whole time.  They have dropped to 28% difference in weight.  It is good news that everything looks good, but I am bummed that the difference in weight has gotten worse.  I am trying to do everything that I can to help this.  I am just an incubator and hoping that baby a will catch up a little.  

I love being able to see my babies move and their hearts beating each week.  What a relief!