But seriously, S and the babies have been doing great Alhamdulillah. We have our big anatomy ultrasound scan in about 13 days and that's when we could potentially find the gender of our two little ones. Being identical twins, they'll both be of the same gender, but I have had two dreams recently in which they turned out to be a boy and a girl. So a small part of me is secretly thinking that maybe some thing might happen and the doctor will tell us that their previous scans were incorrect and we're having a boy and a girl now. haha ... wishful thinking right?
Anyway .. so I had said that we could POTENTIALLY find the gender of our babies in 2 weeks. Now the reason I say potentially is because S and I have been having a small difference of opinion on this matter ... ok.. ok. who I am kidding ... it's not a SMALL difference of opinion, but S has this romantic notion of waiting until the day of the delivery for the doctor to announce 'Congratulations .. it's a boy/girl'. Me on the other hand have been trying to convince her to find out the gender. So lets think about this picture. First of all we'll be spending several painful and nerve wracking hours in labor leading up to the start of the delivery at the hospital. Then god knows how much time it'll take during the delivery in which I'll probably be cursed at and shouted at by my wife for getting her pregnant with not just with one kid but two! So lets say we promise each other that we won't have any more kids and things are all dandy between us and we're able to get through all of that. I'm sure we'll be emotionally and physically exhausted by the time the first baby comes out. At that time, do we really want to be staring at the doctor waiting for him to tell us whether it's a boy or a girl? What if he doesn't tell us and starts working on the second baby? haha ... I don't think we'll be feeling all warm and fuzzy at time by having that surprise just revealed to us. I'll probably be more concerned about how the baby is doing at that time.
So yeah ... I think knowing the gender now would be more fun for us as we'd have the next 20 weeks to think about names and do some shopping etc. So we'll see how that goes. btw, I'm downloading a documentary called 'Business of birth' ... will post a review if it turns out to be any good.
