Week 18 & 19

I had a regular OB appointment the week of the 18th and a specialist appointment my 19th week. Both went good! The specialists appointment was our first since Houston. Thankfully everyone is finally on the same page and past stuff that is no longer an issue is now in the past and no new issues have shown up. They measured both babies as they will every 2 weeks from now on and Baby A was 9oz and Baby B was 10oz. 

There is nothing like twin ultrasounds. You barely move the probe and another baby's  body part is in view. This week they we laying vertically looking at each other. They are always moving so much during my ultrasounds. We saw Baby A swallowing too! 

Next appointment is in another 2 weeks to the specialist and 3 weeks to see my regular OB.

Week 17: The week of Aug 29-Sept 4

This was by far the craziest week I have experienced.

Monday- had an another appointment with the specialist.. Last week the bad news was the flow of one umbilical cord flow was different and the outcomes from them were terrifying! We expected the worst!
She then said we will be coming back bi-weekly!

Tuesday- I called my OB and asked to switch specialists. I just couldn't go back there anymore! I was tired of the news from her office and the way she talks to us! We were done!

Wednesday- We had our first appointment with the new specialist which technically isn't new to us...its the same one we went too with Jacie. We had the ultrasound and waited an hour for the doctor to come in. He told us he is not a risk taker, will not take chances and we will get answers. He wanted us to go to Houston! Houston is where the "twin specialists" are located. There are only 2 in Texas and Houston has both!

Thursday- Could not fake it at work so stayed home. I spent 4 hours on the phone that morning with the doctors, hotels and insurance. We left around 5pm and got to Houston around 10. We checked into our hotel and tried to sleep. I finally feel asleep at 4am and was up at 6. Not the best night I've had.

Friday- I was so nervous... I think the most nervous I have ever been. Got to the medical center at 8 and   was called back by 8:20. We went into the ultrasound room. It lasted about 2 hours. Although we were scared because the technician walked out about 30 mins into it but a doctor walked in and was able to talk to us during the rest of the time. He said she was having a bad migraine and needed to leave.... He was super great and very detailed and gave us so much information and made us feel soooooo much better. After we were cleared for no surgery we were told to go eat and then come back for an echocardiogram. After another intense hour heart ultrasound we got good news and both their hearts looked great.

The outcome to this appointment was both babies look great, all body parts all organs including heart is great the ONLY thing we are dealing with the location of one of the umbilical cords implanted itself in a different location than the other baby. Its not wrong, just different. It doesn't mean anything bad is going got happen and as long as both babies keep growing at the same rate we don't have to go back and can continue being monitored every 2 weeks at home.

We felt pretty good after that. We headed home that day! My next appointment was with my regular OB doctor on Thursday.

Update: Week 13-16

So I have fallen behind for a few weeks. This has been the scariest and most doom and gloom weeks of my life!

So here is the update:

13 week appointment- Went to specialist for the 1st time. They did the NT scan and found that one of the babies necks was measuring bigger (4.3) to be exact. Which put its outside the normal level of nothing higher than 3ml. The doctor wrote the word "cystic hygroma" on a pieces of paper and handed it back to me. After that appointment and the scare of what that could mean I had the first round of blood work for genetic testing. The was the last week of summer!

Waiting..... the following week, my first week at inservice...we received the call that the blood work was inconclusive. Her office then scared me more by telling me the reason it could happen is because of genetic problems which was the point of the whole test! They told me not to retest and to come back in 2 weeks for the amnio. I was not liking that idea at all!!

The next day I called my regular OB doctor office. Told them what was going on and she made me feel better saying in no way it could mean a genetic problem and sometimes those results come back just because the babies are too small. I went the following day to retake their blood test.

More waiting.... On the first day of school we got the call at 5:30 that our results came back negative! and we were having girls!!!! It was a great 3 days because we thought everything was going to be great!!!!

I had another specialist appointment that Thursday. I was looking forward to telling them they made a mistake and that I can't believe they told me just to skip the blood test and to pretty much throw it in their face and these babies will be perfect!!!! It didn't go as planned..... Once again we got more bad news!

10 week appointment... or so I thought!

Monday, July 11 I had my next appointment. My blood pressure was good and I was excited because I thought I was going to get the genetic/gender screening done.

At the ultrasound both babies were measuring smaller than what my original due date says they should be measuring. There were both measuring in 8 weeks with heart rates in the 190s. Because of that I could not get the blood work done since I have to be at least 10 weeks along. I now have to wait until my next appointment on Aug 8.

It was confirmed the twins are identical and they were said to be mono/di....meaning there is a membrane separating them within the sac and it is the safest way to carry identical twins.  My doctor saw the membrane during the abdominal ultrasound.

I was also told that I will begin seeing a specialist for extra monitoring on the twins. That appointment is set up for Aug. 1.

June 30

I had my follow up from the hospital today. Everything is good! Both babies have heart rates in the 170's... so that is making me think girls! 

ER

Early on I was having some spotting every few days but nothing to be concerned about. Sunday, June 26 though I did get concerned. It was more than my usual and I had lower pain to go with it. We headed to the ER at 10:30pm. Long story short everything was good. Told I needed 24 hours of bed rest and was finally sent home at 1:30am. I needed to schedule a follow up with my doctor that week.

First sono

June 22 we went in for our first ultrasound. They called us in early because their machine had gone out so they were going quickly getting people in.

I went straight back with a tech. Soon after it started she said "Do you see what I see?" At that point I did think I saw what she saw! 2 babies! We found out we were having twins. Both had heart rates in the 130s and were both measuring 6 weeks. Many many many emotions were felt that day and the coming weeks but happiness and excitement are the most common ones. Twins make all the risks even higher so I will be watched closer and have ultrasounds every time I go in.