Friday, February 1, 2013

Update


We went in on Wednesday to confirm that both of our babies were viable. I stressed for an entire week about it. This is news that I know some people don't ever want to hear, but for us the thought of having twins was such a blessing. It been four years of trying and losing a baby and not knowing if we were ever going to get pregnant again. So I stressed that we weren't going to see the second baby when we went in for this ultrasound.
The doctor looked at the screen and first thing he said was well there are two healthy babies in there I see both heartbeats. He went on to measure them and make sure they looked like normal little "blobs" my mom gets mad at me for calling them that but for now that's really what they look like two little blobs on the screen. Dr H then started to look much closer at the screen we were both worried that something might be wrong. After what felt like forever he said " The reason I'm looking so closely at this ultrasound is because I see a third sac." Insert heart dropping followed by quickened breathing, Shawn didn't even say a word but later told me he just about passed out when he said three. All I could mutter was "oh gosh." The med student that was with him confirmed that she too saw the third sac. In the next breath Dr H calmed our nerves and told us that he still considers this a twin pregnancy because the third sac is empty. He said he is confident it will only be two babies and not three since by this time we should have seen something in the third sac for it to be considered a third baby. HUGE SIGH OF RELIEF!
 I know I said twins are a blessing and something we welcome with open arms but we never even thought of the idea of having a third and it freaked us out! Two is going to be a ton of work and neither one of us is delusional about it. But I know I'll be able to adjust and take care of both of our babies and be just fine. I don't know if I can say the same for three, that may require help. Coincidentally I just found out that a lady at church is indeed having triplets sometime this summer. We're going to be growing by lots of little feet in a short time period.
We are extremely excited that we have been blessed with these babies and can not wait to meet them. I am somewhere between 7.5 and 8.5 weeks and will go in next Wednesday to my OB (way cool I got to graduate from my specialist, but sad to leave him at the same time) he'll date the pregnancy and we'll have a more solid due date. Either way look out for the Marra Twins to be making their grand arrival sometime between Aug and September of this year!

Twin A

Twin B

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