8 Week 2 Day Ultrasound: Everything's Looking Great! :)
Hi Everyone!
So I had my second ultrasound today...we had to wait about 45 minutes in the waiting room...I was soooooo nervous! But everything is looking great!
Both Baby A and Baby B are measuring right on track.
And have good, strong heartbeats.
And my OB says at this point there is nothing to worry about.
She also said as of today we're about 85% safe as far as not losing these babies.
Also that she sees me as just a normal twin pregnancy...does not see me in the high risk category, which makes me feel so good. I'm going to get to be a normal pregnant girl! (I hope!)
My next appointment is 9/13, and I'm going to be trying sooooooo hard just to trust that everything is OK in there between now and then. I am feeling better after today's appointment, even though last time I was pregnant (and miscarried) everything looked perfect at this point, too. But even so, each hoop we successfully jump through makes me feel like we might actually make it this time...that there might actually be real live babies at the end of all this.
XOXO
11 Week 5 Day Ultrasound: It’s Over
My worst fear in being pregnant has been a missed miscarriage, which is where you’ve lost the baby but don’t know it. I haven’t talked about it, because in a weird way I thought doing so might make it happen.
Well, it’s happened anyway.
No heartbeat today at our OB appointment, and our baby hasn’t grown much beyond the 8 week ultrasound we had where everything was totally fine.
I had some scary stuff happen last week (which I’ll talk about at some point), but before that nothing, and after that I convinced myself that everything was going to be OK because I still felt so pregnant. My fertility clinic now says the placenta’s still in there making hormones, which explains why I’ve still felt like everything was going along as planned.
D&C tomorrow.
We are pretty much just numb at this point.
Ugh.
Oh, and PS, yesterday our dog Newton chewed the baby sweater I was knitting to shreds…the needle that was in the knitting is now in 10 pieces. My husband and I have been joking that the dog was trying to let us know.
And PPS, I can’t believe I missed the entire snowboarding season for nothing. My brother said he’ll meet me, though, if something (A Basin?) is still open once I’m recovered from the D&C. Bless him.
We’ll be doing a frozen transfer as soon as we can. Need to be nice to ourselves in the meantime.
Oh, and I know this post sounds kind of flippant and devoid of emotion…the shock and grief and anger are coming, I’m sure. Right now I just can’t believe this is happening.
Ultrasound #2
Baby's on the right in the black circle. Little white circle to the left is the yolk sac. So amazing we get to see this...my mom told me today she didn't have a single ultrasound the whole time she was pregnant with me.
Wow, 8 weeks 6 days and we have what kind of looks like a little baby in there! (Versus the little round blob we saw on our first ultrasound.) According to the doctor everything is looking really good. I was so relieved to see the good, strong heartbeat. This is feeling more real every day.