Well the past two weeks have been pretty crazy for me. I have finally been completely weaned off of all of my medications, aside from my prenatal of course. I also had my first OB appointment, which was boring because it was just the maternity counseling appointment. I was just asked some questions about my previous pregnancy and my own health. It was kind of awkward because a lot of the questions did not really have anything to do with me since the eggs were donor eggs, and of course my IF sperm. The nurse was pretty awesome though and we laughed through the awkwardness of it.
So, I will start with the good news first. My IF has changed his mind and will be keeping BOTH babies!! I got a call from my agency earlier last week asking if we (IF and I) had talked about the pregnancy at all. I thought it was weird for her to be calling and emailing me about it (she sent an email before calling). She said that he decided that he did not want to go through with the reduction. She also said that he expressed having concern that I would not want to carry both babies anymore since we had been planning on a singleton pregnancy this whole time. I reassured her I was 100% willing and was always willing to carry both babies. I also sent him a text and we had a pretty good chat about everything and how he was feeling about the whole situation. Also, a few days before I got the news about the reduction, I found out that both babies are
GIRLS! I am going to assume this is why I have been SO sick, which I will talk about later. But I am feeling a lot better and now preparing myself for a twin pregnancy!!
This next little bit of news isn't good, but it also isn't horrible as of right now. Last night I experienced quite a bit of bleeding. I had been sleeping and woke up because I had to pee. I laid there for a minute before getting up. All of a sudden I had this feeling like I was leaking...so I thought that I as peeing myself! I jumped up and rushed to the bathroom to pee. As I was peeing I had looked down and saw two drops of bright red blood on the toilet seat. I looked into the toilet and it was all bright red. My underwear was also completely saturated in blood, but I did not know at the time because I was wearing dark undies. I called the nurse hot line because I know that sometimes bleeding is common in the first trimester. I hadn't had any cramping at the time of the bleeding either.
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After speaking with the nurse, she told me I needed to be seen within the hour. So off to the ER I went. They did blood work, some kind of other lab work where I had to have a catheter put in for them to test to make sure I did not have an infection. Which by the way was VERY uncomfortable and slightly painful. The nurse did bring in a Doppler to find heartbeats. She found one for sure, that was very strong, but was unsure about a second since she only had one Doppler and said it could be picking up the heartbeat we already heard. Then they also did a pelvic exam of course, which was one of the worst ones I have ever had. I am pretty used to all of that going on down there by now, but this was very different and also slightly painful. I couldn't bring myself to just relax. The ER doctor was also not very pleasant or vocal about what was going on down there. At one point he asked for forceps (without saying why or anything mind you) So I am freaking out thinking that he sees one of the babies coming out or something. I had still been bleeding off and on for the past two hours before he did the exam. He ended up pulling out a blood clot that was about two inches long. Then he pretty much got up and left after saying he was going to get a hold of OB in LaCrosse.
Eventually, the nurse came back in with this tiny ultrasound machine. She showed me both babies and both girls had heartbeats and were moving all around. I was so happy to see them both with little heartbeats! One baby was VERY active, but there has been one that is a lot more active at each ultrasound than the other. So at the moment I am on bed rest until I get an actual ultrasound to figure out what caused this bleed. As of right now I do not know. I am supposed to call right away tomorrow morning to get in with my Midwife and see what is going on. I will update if I get answers tomorrow.
Other than those two things, I have been off and on crazy sick! Some days I get sick about 4-5 times a day. Other days I can eat a TON of food, almost as if my body is making up for the three or four days I hardly ate anything. I have of course lost weight, but nothing that is concerning to my Midwife since I am still hydrated and can at least keep water or tea down most days. But since I am almost 13 weeks now, I am hoping that it will soon pass! Other than that I feel good and my body is feeling good, no pain there yet!
