We're Halfway There!

On Saturday, we hit the halfway mark of 20 weeks!!! Okay, so we are probably more than halfway there since it is unlikely we will make it the full 40 weeks. But we'll go ahead and call this the halfway mark.

Here is what babycenter.com has to say about babies at week 20:

Your baby weighs about 10 1/2 ounces now. He's also around 6 1/2 inches long from head to bottom and about 10 inches from head to heel — the length of a banana. (For the first 20 weeks, when a baby's legs are curled up against his torso and hard to measure, measurements are taken from the top of his head to his bottom — the "crown to rump" measurement. After 20 weeks, he's measured from head to toe.)

He's swallowing more these days, which is good practice for his digestive system. He's also producing meconium, a black, sticky by-product of digestion. This gooey substance will accumulate in his bowels, and you'll see it in his first soiled diaper (some babies pass meconium in the womb or during delivery).

The "meconium" section sounds really gross. :) I guess I have a lot of gross stuff coming in the near future. Hopefully, it will be different when it is your own kids.

Here is an artist's rendition of our baby boy and girl. As you can see in the picture, twins normally hang out in the womb head to foot and have "marks" designating their gender.

One final note: Do two 20 week twins add up to one 40 week full term baby?