Good news: Aden gained a total of 14 ounces over the last 20 days, and his umbilical blood flows, while still a little stressed today, are acceptable, so the babies get to stay in the mom until Wednesday.
The details: Hunter weighs in at an (estimated) 5 pounds, 3 ounces, while Aden tips the virtual scales at 3 pounds, 3 ounces. Both are active and besides for Aden's noted issues, seem happy and healthy.
On Wednesday they found a private room for Liz, and she's settling in nicely:
(Click on the image for a panorama of Liz' home-away-from-home.)
So the routine will be for the nurses to monitor the babies twice a day, with another Doppler study scheduled for Monday. If everything goes smoothly and the babies keep kicking the stuffing out of Liz, they will defininitely be delivered by C-section on Wednesday. At the first indication of danger to Hunter, Aden, or Liz, they'll do the C-section immediately.
So at the latest, we're talking about being parents by Wednesday.
Now, more pictures.
Hunter has been good about giving us good pictures. She's been above and in front pretty much the whole time, so her images have tended to be less "fuzzy" than Aden's. Plus, the kid moves a lot. Well, here's the latest of Aden:
Still not great, but mostly because of the angle. Here's a detail, rotated:
He's going to be not only a rogue (inferred from all the consternation he's delivered so far) but a handsome rogue to boot.