18 weeks

G is now 18 weeks pregnant with mono/di twins (identical).  She can now feel them.  She has been feeling movement for a few weeks but felt them from outside last night.  I didn't get to feel it tho because I was holding sleeping R and couldn't get up.  I hope to feel it soon tho!

G's appointment Nov 10th went well. I wasn't there I was at work but G and her mom went.  They listened to babies heart rates and they were in the 160s.  They scheduled the next appt which would be the big Ultrasound appt for Dec 4th.  We really thought it would be earlier since he kept saying 18 weeks and we really want to know what they are.  So the next day I made a phone call and was able to get it moved up till Nov 24th.  That is only a few days away now!!  We can't wait to know if we are having 2 boys or 2 girls!!

Last weekend Nov 15th when G was 17w4ds she got another bladder infection.  This is now the 2nd one already.  They called her in antibiotics and she is doing better now but we are hoping she doesn't keep getting them!

R is doing well.  He is baby talking up a storm lately.  He will be 15 months on Monday.  Here are some pics of him!

A Scare

First we had our next appt with the Dr. Oct 13th.  It was an quick an easy appt once we finally saw the doctor.  Listened to the heartbeats and basically that was it.  We scheduled the next appt for a month and were on our way.  Well the next evening G started bleeding.  She was 13 weeks.  I have been there I know how awful it feels but I also know that it's not always terrible.  I bled a few times with R and he is fine.  I had placenta previa so I figured that was it.  My bleeding started around the same time. I was able to stay calm but G of course was very scared and I called the doc.  Thank god I was the one that called!!  It was the on call doctor and she basically told me she thought G was loosing one of the babies but to not go to ER to just wait and come in and see our doctor the next day.  I told G that she said it happens a lot and not to panic that we would see doctor the next morning.

We went in Oct 15th to see Dr. Farrell.  I asked him if the bleeding could be the same as mine since it was around same time and he told me he doubted it.  He said "bleeding doesn't happen often and shouldn't happen.  Even tho its the same time as yours doesn't mean its the same thing."  This scared me because that is not what I was told and why couldn't it be the same thing??  I might have been upset.  Anyways they did an ultrasound 13w1d and everything was fine.  Babies looked great and were moving all around.  Looks like she had low lying placenta like I thought!!!  Doctor came in and told us that and acted like I had never even mentioned it.  I wanted to say "I told you so" but I was just so happy everything was okay that I didn't.  He told her to take it easy and rest for the next 2 weeks.  That led us to our next problem.  We had vacation scheduled and we were leaving for Florida on Saturday that same week.  He would tell us if we should or shouldn't go so we just decided to wait and see if the bleeding stopped. G had the next 3 days off work before we were leaving so she was just going to rest all that time.

Luckily the bleeding stopped the next day and we did go on vacation.  We relaxed most of time but did get to take R to Magic Kingdom one day plus we were able to do a few other fun things.

G's next appt is later today Nov 10th and she is 16w6ds and she has had no more bleeding!!  Finally got this blog back up to date lol but I am sure that won't last long.  Isn't as easy to blog with a toddler!!

Here are a few pictures from our vacation

New Doctor

So Sept 17th was our first meeting with the new doctor we had to pick since we were having twins and our midwife won't deliver twins.  At first it didn't seem to be going well because we waited a very long time to see him and the nurse wasn't very nice or helpful.  I asked her some questions about G's medical records being transferred and she automatically said "no" without even looking.  So I then asked how long it takes them to get them into their patients file (because I knew they were already faxed there I had contacted the REs office to double check) and she said "right away" which shocked me because our OBs office still uses paper files.  So I then told her they were already faxed so they must have them somewhere.  She acted irritated but finally looked into the file and found them.  Ugh!!  So right away we were like oh no we made the wrong decision!!

But Dr. Farrell came in and we loved him right away.  He was so nice and friendly and sat down and talked with us not at us.  He tried to hear the heartbeats with the doppler but couldn't which didn't concern us since G was only 9w1d.  Dr. Farrell I think was concerned tho and wanted to make sure everything was okay and ordered another ultrasound.  We weren't going to argue with seeing the babies again!! Below you can see our little beans!! Both had strong heartbeats.  I think they were both 170.

After we saw the babies again they took us to Dr. Farrells office to speak with him which I thought was nice.  He had pictures of his 4 girls in there.  Yes he has 4 girls!!  He answered all our questions and said he would do the delivery as natural as possible.  That was our big concern with switching to a doctor,  He said as long as Baby A is head down he will do a vaginal delivery.  He will let her go to 38 weeks before talking induction.  And he won't "make" her get an epidural but might suggest one if baby B isn't head down because turning that baby could hurt.  He said he would never "make" us do anything so it was great to hear.  We are very happy with our decision.  

Another thing we did learn was that it is VERY hard to go to the OBs office with a toddler lol Rayden was with us and he wanted to get into everything and he didn't like all the waiting.  Guess we need to get used to this!!  

Ultrasound #2

G's next ultrasound was scheduled for Sept 3rd.  We still hadn't picked a doctor but Wendi said she would still see her.  G went to the appt without me since I had to work.  They again saw both babies and they believed they were in their own amniotic sac.  Which is great.  Identical twins can be more risky but monochorionic, monoamniotic or monomono can be even riskier.  We are hoping they are are each in their own sac and have their own placenta (dichorionic).  But most identical twins are monochorionic-diamniotic or monodi.  We have to wait to know for sure.  Below is the ultrasound picture.  You can't see it in the picture but they think they have a membrane separating them.  The babies were 7w1d but measuring a little smaller.  No one seemed concerned they just thought it was because 2 different techs did the ultrasounds.

After the Ultrasound G met with Wendi and they discussed which doctor we should pick.  They ended up deciding on Dr. Farrell.  Wendi thought he was the best fit for us and G made an appt with him for Sept 17th.  G was very sad to be leaving Wendi  We were really looking forward to going to her again!!

Big Surprise

When I last posted about G's pregnancy we were waiting till Aug 27 to see my midwife and hope she would request a ultrasound.  Also we were sure there was only going to be one baby based on the HCG numbers.  When we got there everyone was confused why we were there and why they didn't schedule us an ultrasound.  I explained as best I could and they acted like whoever I talked to on the phone made a mistake. I'm not surprised that is how this pregnancy is going.  Wendi our midwife was so happy to see us and was glad she would get to delivers G's baby.  She did request an ultrasound right away without a problem and said we would talk more after.   We go in and they put all her info into the machine.  We had to figure out "date of last period" based on day of retrieval since we did IVF the day isn't real.  Anyways she started ultrasound and saw one sac with a heart beat.  That is what we expected to see.  Of course we were so happy.  She asked us how many embryos we transferred and as I'm answering she says "wait did you see that?"  I start think oh no she found the other embryo.  (Which of course isn't bad but I was just hoping for one healthy baby because two will be lots of work).  She points at a second white dot with a heartbeat in that sac.  I start saying "OMG it's twins" a few times lol then "oh no what will my parents say"  ( they really only wanted us to transfer 1).  G is so happy because she wanted twins.  Then all of a sudden I say "wait they are in same sac doesn't that mean they are identical twins?" She answers yes and starts saying stuff about mono and di but I tune it out because I keep saying "omg" lol Then tell her to look for the other embryo because it could be triplets now.  She looks and thankfully doesn't find a third.  Thank god because then we would have some decisions to make.  3 would be very risky.   I was in shock big time tho.  I never thought it would be twins and never even considered identical twins.  So G almost got her wish.  She wanted twins one boy one girl but they will be two boy or two girls.  She printed our pics.  See one below then we went to see Wendi again.  We waited awhile because she got paged a few times.  She comes in and tells us what we didn't want to hear that she doesn't deliver twins so we have to see a doctor.  We are very sad about this.  She did say she would see G till she was discharged from our RE tho.  She got paged again so she said she would schedule G for the following week and do all her paperwork then.  She told us a few things about the docs and told us to research before we decide which one.  We left there happy, sad and in shock.

1st Birthday

I can't believe R is 1 year old now.  Wow time has flown.  He is walking all over.  Actually running now.  He had a Mickey Mouse Birthday Party.  I reserved a pavilion in town near the park and invited our family and requested they just come celebrate and not bring gifts.  R doesn't need a bunch of toys and he doesn't even care to open presents now.  I never expected many people to come.  I thought maybe 20 people.  Well over 50 people came.  We ran out of food in the end.  I was shocked.  A few people did bring presents but most listened so R only had to open a few.  And my house isn't filled with toys he won't play with!! =)

I will add some pictures below.  I do not have many because my camera wasn't working right till after the cake.  Yes this did upset me and yes I did cry.  I really feel bad I don't have pictures of most of his party.  =(

Tests continued...

Okay so now I am finally going to finish up what I wrote in the last post that got deleted.  So we later found out that her first number was really 261 not 216 like she was told.  G was looking around at her test results online and found out.  Soooo that means since the 2nd number was only 479 it didn't double.  I am not too concerned because the double time is still 57 hours which is well before 72 since they want it to double in 48 to 72 hours.  I just think that means there is only 1 baby.  Which I am okay with.  G probably not.  But I know she will be happy either way!  I also talked to the nurse about the crinone because it was causing irritation so she called in a script for endometrium plus said G could cut back on the crinone for now and didn't have to take full dose of endometrium since her Progesterone levels were so high.

The other thing I talked to the nurse about is an ultrasound.  They want her to have one but they don't take her insurance.  Won't even run it outta network (which upsets me).  So we don't want to do her care up there anymore now that she is pregnant and insurance will cover her appts.  It is too far to drive and will cost too much.  I asked if we could be seen at my midwife's office.  She said that would be fine but they won't see her till she is 6 weeks.  That is their policy.  Well that is fine with us.  You don't see much at 5 weeks anyways.  She gives us a requisition for the ultrasound and I go to schedule that and of course it's not that easy.  They won't let G schedule an ultrasound till she sees my midwife, Wendi.  So I schedule the appt for Aug 27th and they tell me that if Wendi orders the ultrasound that day they should be able to squeeze us in for an ultrasound the same day.  So we have our fingers crossed!!

The other thing the nurse told me Friday was that G's TSH number is rising so they want to watch it.  So she needed retested Monday which would have been Aug 18th.  The TSH number Thursday was 4.85.  So Monday she goes for her retest and of course no one calls her back so Tuesday afternoon when we still hadn't heard anything I call.  The nurse said "oh I left a message with G her level came back at 5.21 so we want her to continue her med"....I was like "wait what?"  1st you didn't call G i just talked to her and she hadn't heard from you and 2nd she isn't on medication.  The nurse says "well Chris decided Friday she wanted G to start meds for thyroid so she called them in"  I was like "umm no I went to the pharmacy Friday to get the script you called in and there was't anything else"  and I knew there wasn't my friend is the pharmacist so she would make sure to tell me.  So she looks at the notes on file and says.  Chris tried to call G and couldn't get ahold of her so didn't know what pharmacy to send it to so didn't.  Ummm now I am getting upset.  1 she didn't call G's phone 2 they sent in a script that same day so they knew where to send it and 3 isn't this kind of important so they should try to keep calling G or maybe call me?????  So I find out they have been calling the home phone (which we really don't use) even tho our cell phones are suppose to be primary contact.  I check the messages on that phone from Friday and this Chris person said "this is your doctor office please call us back" that is it no name or reason.  Doesn't sound too serious does it?  Well it is this could be life or death for our baby!!  I can't believe this!!!  So anyways she finally calls in the med and G runs right over to get it to start it.  We are hoping our baby is okay.

So I am pretty upset with our fertility clinic.  The care since I was there is awful.  You are just a number and they make lots of mistakes because they see so many people.  It is really sad.   Nothing seems to be going that smoothly this time but it is okay as long as we deliver a healthy baby around April 21st.  Which will be the due date!!