Alright so Tom and I had our first ultrasound on March 1! I can't even begin to describe how nervous I was. The woman on the phone with me when I made the appointment told me to drink at least 24oz of water an hour before my appointment. Clearly she didn't know I'd have to pee about 3 times before even making it to the appointment. That's why I hate pelvic ultrasounds, I never know how much water to drink. Anyway I had a bottle of water and went to the bathroom as soon as I arrived (20 minutes early) and then continued to chug my water while I waited. The tech tried to call me back right away but Tom hadn't gotten there yet so I requested to wait a little longer. I suppose I should let the father of my child in on the ultrasound ;-)
After Tom arrived and we got called back the tech asked some questions about possible dating and had me lie down for the abdominal portion of the ultrasound. I was actually assuming she'd skip right to the transvaginal part but she told me she'd look around on top before things got more invasive, ha! The abdominal ultrasound didn't show much, she told us she could see the gestational sac but nothing else at that point.
Time for the transvaginal ultrasound, yay! Ok, not really, I've had several before and it's not the most glamorous procedure. If you've never had one you basically position yourself like you would for a pelvic exam: undressed from the waist down, ass hanging off the table and feet in the stirrups. Nice. The tech then has the probe she basically covers with a condom and lubricant and inserts it into the vagina. Sorry if this is too much for anyone, I'm a nurse and nothing is ever TMI with me, so I forget that with some people it may be, ha! Ok enough blabbering-to the good stuff!
As soon as the tech turned the monitor toward me I saw what I was NOT expecting to see, even before she started explaining things. She explained the gestational sac is the baby's "home" and said we'd see the baby in there. She then asked me what we saw. We both had noticed before she said anything and responded "There's two in there?" The tech responds "Yep! Congratulations!" I'm not really sure what I felt all in that moment. Hell, surprise was one emotion, twins were something I never considered. Also excitment (ohmygosh, TWO babies!?!?), fear (will everything be ok? how will we make this work?) and anxiety (will this change my prenatal care? will I end up on bedrest?). The rest of the ultrasound was kind of a blur. The tech took measurements and showed us the babies flickering heartbeats, very cool to see, however, they're so small they don't look much like babies yet. They were both measuring a couple days behind where I was thinking I was and the tech said my doc would provider might order another scan soon. I suppose I should also add that both babies are in the same gestational sac which based on my research means they're probably identical! And in case you're wondering and since we're already getting asked, identical twins do not appear to have a genetic component, that's more for fraternal twining. Apparently we're just one of the lucky one to end up with random identical babes!
After we left I was still in a total daze still. We drove to my dad's since we planned to have dinner with him. We had planned on telling him we were expecting and now we were going to tell him we were having not one but two babies! We ended up telling him at dinner that we had some news, I could kind of tell by his face that he probably already knew what I was going to say. We told him I was expecting and then added "yeahhh and today we found out there are two babies in there!" We also showed him the ultrasound photos to prove we weren't making anything up! We told my mom the next day and she was just as shocked as I probably was at the ultrasound. I'm still sort of in disbelief when I think about having twins but I'm coming around, just have to rework our plans a little.
So that's my update. Helluva update right?
After we told my mom she hugged me and said "God has a plan" Oh he certainly does, and a sense of humor apparently. :0)
P.S-apologies about my previous entries (and possibly this one) I feel like I did a lot of babbling and repeating myself, can I blame pregnancy brain already? Please?
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