Here are some visual pictures to help everyone understand our situation.

Another mom having momo twins had this on her blogspot and I thought it was a very good visual. To read more about her story go to www.klassentwins.blogspot.com.

The first two pictures are examples of the most common types of twin pregnancies. The last picture is a picture of mo-mo twins which is what we are having and is very rare.



Here we have a set of twins with two outer sacs (chorion) and two inner sacs (amnion). They are called dichorionic-diamniotic or di-di twins. This is your best case twin scenario, and typically this is what fraternal twins look like. They result from two ovum being fertilized by two sperm. However, identical twins could look like this if the single egg fertilized by a single sperm split very early on. In this case, the only way you would know for certain if the twins were NOT identical is if they are boy/girl twins (because yes, identical twins are ALWAYS girl/girl or boy/boy). Also, if the same sex twins look markedly different, you would assume they were fraternal. Sometimes it is not so easy to tell.

Here we have your typical identical twins. They have the same outer sac (or chorion) and two inner sacs (amnion). They are called monochorionic-diamniotic or mo-di twins. This is also a good scenario for twins. These twins are always identical too.

OK here are our sweet babies!!!!

Here you see what our doctors think we have right now-- one outer sac (chorion) and one inner sac (amnion). These are monoamniotic twins. No need to reference the monochorion, since of course there has to be one chorion if there is only one amnion! These twins have skin to skin contact. From this picture you can see how dangerous the cords can be.

We have our next doctors appt. tomorrow Nov.23rd at 10:00 am.

Please keep praying for our little ones.