11w, 3d
Off to get my first trimester genetic screening today. It was insane! Firstly because as I was waiting to get called back, a woman was escorted in by two police officers. The woman was in handcuffs that were attached to a chain around her waist. I knew that whatever happened, I was probably not having as bad of a day as she was.
I had to wait a long time since I got there early. Not sure if any fertile people will "get it" but I finally felt like I was in "the club". The area I was in just did u/s for pregnant women so all the patients who walked in were in different stages of pregnancy. Including me. I was actually one of the pregnant people.
I had kinda forgotten that I was worried about the vanishing twin thing while I sat there until my friend sent me a txt to let me know she was thinking about me today. Thankfully that didn't send me off in a tizzy of worry. Most of my worry was just to prepare myself in case there was bad news. In my heart I knew everything would be okay. Or maybe in my stomach I knew it because as much as I am throwing up I figured there still had to be two rascals in there adding to the distress.
The u/s tech was really great and nice to talk to. She found two babies right away and I breathed a small sigh of relief. It was the first time I had seen them that they actually looked like babies. It was also the first time I really felt a great connection to these babies in me. Guess it was just hard to fall in love with a little nondescript blob that made a noise like a heartbeat. But these were babies! There were heads with eye spots, noses, mouths, and what looked like it could be ears. They both had two little arms with fingered hands and two legs with toed feet.
I asked some questions and learned that the standard is to label the baby closest to the cervix as Baby A and the one further away as Baby B, so A and B should stay the same. Once they get bigger, and particularly if they are different genders, the position to the cervix won't matter quite as much because it will be pretty determined where each of them is generally located.
Baby A was pretty excited about life! The tech was laughing and kept saying things like, "How cute!" and "Isn't that adorable!" The arms were waving all over the place and the legs were kicking up a storm. Baby A kept arching its back making it bounce all over the place. The tech said she needed it to stay still for 5 seconds to get a heartrate and she was having a lot of trouble getting that to happen.
Baby B was happily snoozing, or at least chillin'. We got a quick view of Baby B's entire little hand at one point with all the little fingers which was really neat. Baby B decided it didn't want to move much at all which made it a little more difficult for the tech to get one of the measurements that she needed.
All worked out. Heartrates were 160 and 161 bpm. We could see both babies had two hemispheres in their brains, two arms, two legs, and were measuring on schedule for their number of weeks gestation. She checked out my kidneys (I have two of them) and ovaries. My left ovary looks good but my right one is measuring 14 cm, which is a half cm more than it was measuring when I was hospitalized. This sucker better start shrinking soon! It is supposed to start going down here soon, at the end of the first trimester. I'm not in pain so I guess it isn't that big of a deal.
I walked out of there happier about this pregnancy than I have been since I got a positive blood test. Pretty much everything after that has sucked: shock of having twins, illness, UTI, hospital stays, pain, sickness, and more sickness. I also walked out of there with 7 u/s pictures. Then I had to go have bloodwork done which wasn't so much fun.
The u/s tech said that at this point my uterus is stretched so that it looks like a normal uterus. This is the closest to a normal uterus I have ever had! Of course this is no indication of how my uterus is going to behave in the next couple months.
A couple more days and I am going to tell everyone in the world I'm pregnant with twins. Can't wait to get it over with.
I had to wait a long time since I got there early. Not sure if any fertile people will "get it" but I finally felt like I was in "the club". The area I was in just did u/s for pregnant women so all the patients who walked in were in different stages of pregnancy. Including me. I was actually one of the pregnant people.
I had kinda forgotten that I was worried about the vanishing twin thing while I sat there until my friend sent me a txt to let me know she was thinking about me today. Thankfully that didn't send me off in a tizzy of worry. Most of my worry was just to prepare myself in case there was bad news. In my heart I knew everything would be okay. Or maybe in my stomach I knew it because as much as I am throwing up I figured there still had to be two rascals in there adding to the distress.
The u/s tech was really great and nice to talk to. She found two babies right away and I breathed a small sigh of relief. It was the first time I had seen them that they actually looked like babies. It was also the first time I really felt a great connection to these babies in me. Guess it was just hard to fall in love with a little nondescript blob that made a noise like a heartbeat. But these were babies! There were heads with eye spots, noses, mouths, and what looked like it could be ears. They both had two little arms with fingered hands and two legs with toed feet.
I asked some questions and learned that the standard is to label the baby closest to the cervix as Baby A and the one further away as Baby B, so A and B should stay the same. Once they get bigger, and particularly if they are different genders, the position to the cervix won't matter quite as much because it will be pretty determined where each of them is generally located.
Baby A was pretty excited about life! The tech was laughing and kept saying things like, "How cute!" and "Isn't that adorable!" The arms were waving all over the place and the legs were kicking up a storm. Baby A kept arching its back making it bounce all over the place. The tech said she needed it to stay still for 5 seconds to get a heartrate and she was having a lot of trouble getting that to happen.
Baby B was happily snoozing, or at least chillin'. We got a quick view of Baby B's entire little hand at one point with all the little fingers which was really neat. Baby B decided it didn't want to move much at all which made it a little more difficult for the tech to get one of the measurements that she needed.
All worked out. Heartrates were 160 and 161 bpm. We could see both babies had two hemispheres in their brains, two arms, two legs, and were measuring on schedule for their number of weeks gestation. She checked out my kidneys (I have two of them) and ovaries. My left ovary looks good but my right one is measuring 14 cm, which is a half cm more than it was measuring when I was hospitalized. This sucker better start shrinking soon! It is supposed to start going down here soon, at the end of the first trimester. I'm not in pain so I guess it isn't that big of a deal.
I walked out of there happier about this pregnancy than I have been since I got a positive blood test. Pretty much everything after that has sucked: shock of having twins, illness, UTI, hospital stays, pain, sickness, and more sickness. I also walked out of there with 7 u/s pictures. Then I had to go have bloodwork done which wasn't so much fun.
The u/s tech said that at this point my uterus is stretched so that it looks like a normal uterus. This is the closest to a normal uterus I have ever had! Of course this is no indication of how my uterus is going to behave in the next couple months.
A couple more days and I am going to tell everyone in the world I'm pregnant with twins. Can't wait to get it over with.
Labels: first trimester down syndrome screening, twins, unicornuate uterus twin pregnancy, UU
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