Proud Big Brother!

He was so excited to hold his babies today. The girls are starting to become more fussy and active; almost as if they've finally realized they've been born. We are still just waiting for them to eat and grow. It's more the learning to eat than the growing I think at this point. Some people (you know who you are) have complained that I don't have updates on their weights but we're too preoccupied when we're there to ask and often if we ask the nurses don't have time to look immediately and then we all forget. Basically we know they can't come home and we know it will be another week or two at the least.

Anyhow, Erica is on the left and Megan is on the right in this picture and Jack is in the middle; happy to be holding his girls. I still can't tell the babies apart. We're really starting to wonder if they are indeed identical. There's only a small chance that they might be since they implanted as two separated embryos. Apparently around 10% of identicals split early enough to implant separately. My former neighbor had identical twin boys that were completely separate and I know of another set of twins that appear identical but swear they aren't because they were separate. Even the nurses at the hospital when I went in this last time sounded a little wary of believing they could be identical and have been in the same sac. The nurses on the maternity floor know that this happens but apparently it's not a well known phenomenon.