Part 2: Due January, February & March 2019

[kikurose]

Hey girls. I had my first ultrasound today. Thought I was 8w3d. Ultrasound showed a fetal pole and no heart beat. They did draw an hcg and will recheck on sat to see if it is doubling but I am not hopeful because I was temping and knew when I ovulated. So thanks for your support ladies. I wish you all healthy babies!

KJ, I just went through something like this. I hope for a miracle for you. But if you want to chat, I'm here.

[Kelbear]

Thanks TP, I am keeping everything crossed that the bad nausea means it's a girl but I know that owt has been disproven so many times (my DS2 was worse than DS1). I found tums helped with DS1 and needed them daily from 20 weeks, I also had to not eat too close to bed time. With DS2 I couldn't get tums (not stocking them here anymore) so tried mylanta chewable tablets which only helped a little. Not much helped towards the third trimester with DS2 was just uncomfortable most of the pregnancy. He was born with lots of hair so maybe that was part of it but that doesn't explain why we get heart burn so early on in the pregnancy. Hoping the heartburn improves for you and that the bad heart burn so early means you are having a boy.

[Kelbear]

Hey girls. I had my first ultrasound today. Thought I was 8w3d. Ultrasound showed a fetal pole and no heart beat. They did draw an hcg and will recheck on sat to see if it is doubling but I am not hopeful because I was temping and knew when I ovulated. So thanks for your support ladies. I wish you all healthy babies!

Fingers crossed everything turns out ok for you and that your numbers double. Sending you strength in this difficult time

[Throwaway_panther]

I had zero heartburn with my boys and they both had a lot of hair

I think heartburn is from high progesterone - from what I've read all indigestion issues are usually from progesterone because it slows all the processes down. So maybe if your progesterone is higher you'll have more heartburn. I'm having allllllll kinds of tummy issues this time and heartburn. Actually almost every symptom I have when I Google it says it's a result of progesterone! So my level must be high still.

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Oh wow, really?!? I'm actually still on the supplementation because the midwives saw how nervous I was and said, "How about until 16 weeks?" Assuming the placenta's taken over, maybe I really am having too much prog!! Lol though I also hoped once I weaned off other supps my symptoms would change and didn't, so maybe just wishful thinking!

and simmn, we have both in the U.S.! I'm just so paranoid about taking anything!

[Throwaway_panther]

Hey girls. I had my first ultrasound today. Thought I was 8w3d. Ultrasound showed a fetal pole and no heart beat. They did draw an hcg and will recheck on sat to see if it is doubling but I am not hopeful because I was temping and knew when I ovulated. So thanks for your support ladies. I wish you all healthy babies!

I am so, so sorry. Thinking of you ♡ I know how hard it is and am here for you.

[ABC.2606]

Oh wow, really?!? I'm actually still on the supplementation because the midwives saw how nervous I was and said, "How about until 16 weeks?" Assuming the placenta's taken over, maybe I really am having too much prog!! Lol though I also hoped once I weaned off other supps my symptoms would change and didn't, so maybe just wishful thinking!

and simmn, we have both in the U.S.! I'm just so paranoid about taking anything!

Yea that would make sense. I bet it's the progesterone you're on. It seems like most of the hormone-related discomforts of early pregnancy are from the progesterone - especially anything indigestion-related!! Obviously it's such a critical hormone for developing/sustaining pregnancy but it also really does seem to be the devil hormone in terms of how many different, awful symptoms it causes!!!

[ABC.2606]

I had my appt today at 10-ish weeks and I thought they were just going to do the doppler to hear the HBs but they said given that I'm 10 weeks and it's twins the doppler wouldn't work and they needed to do a quick ultrasound to check things out. So I got to see babies again! No measurements on size or heartbeats but things looked good and they were moving around, which for some reason shocked me - it's been so long since I've seen a baby move on ultrasound! One of them wasn't moving much though and it was bugging me (which I told the doc) so he poked at my abdomen for a few seconds and sure enough it seems like the baby felt it because he/she immediately starting moving!! I've been struggling pretty bad the last two weeks with all the symptoms and so it felt really nice to see them again today and remember why I'm having to go through all the discomfort right now!

And I did get blood drawn for the Panorama test, so we'll see - hoping everything is ok. I told doc I don't want to know genders immediately when the results come back but they'll have that on file for whenever I decide I want to know

[Pbn3]

Abc do you feel like you actually know you're having twins?! Like has it fully sink in? Have you been reading much about it yet, both pregnancy and born? I think my mind would break from reality if I had been told I was having twins [emoji23] In all seriousness though, it truly is a something remarkable and special and I'm delighted you get not one but two rainbow babies ([emoji130][emoji6])

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[ABC.2606]

Abc do you feel like you actually know you're having twins?! Like has it fully sink in? Have you been reading much about it yet, both pregnancy and born? I think my mind would break from reality if I had been told I was having twins [emoji23] In all seriousness though, it truly is a something remarkable and special and I'm delighted you get not one but two rainbow babies ([emoji130][emoji6])

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Pbn - I think it has sunk in now but it's still very overwhelming to think about! I told DH tonight that seeing them today (even though it was my 4th ultrasound of this pregnancy already!) felt weird b/c they are looking more like babies and seeing two babies side by side is so odd. I have read some things about twin pregnancies but honestly there is SOOOO much scary stuff online about it that with as much of a total worrier as I am, I really have to be careful about how much I let myself read. Basically with twin pregnancies you're at higher risk for EVERYTHING, things could go very wrong at any time, etc etc. So I'm trying to just pray a lot and keep myself distracted from the what ifs as much as I can. Even my doctor at my first appt with him said I seemed really freaked out. He tries to be reassuring and he's going to be doing a lot of extra monitoring so that helps.

As far as thinking about when they are born and what life will be like with twins (and 4 kids total!).... I can't even think that far yet!! That TOTALLY overwhelms and terrifies me! I'm basically in a "let's take this one week at a time" mindset right now. We did tell our boys and DS1 is SO excited - he's talking constantly about how he's going to take care of them and feed them and change their diapers, even the poopy ones! He said today he's going to be the best baby parent ever, LOL!! When we brought DS2 home he thought it was the greatest thing in the world so I know he's sincere in his excitement. So for him alone (in addition to the rest of us), I really hope things turn out ok with these little ones! He wants "girl babies" and I know my parents are hoping for one or both to be girls so that scares me too - so much pressure in addition to my own GD!

[ABC.2606]

Abc do you feel like you actually know you're having twins?! Like has it fully sink in? Have you been reading much about it yet, both pregnancy and born? I think my mind would break from reality if I had been told I was having twins [emoji23] In all seriousness though, it truly is a something remarkable and special and I'm delighted you get not one but two rainbow babies ([emoji130][emoji6])

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Pbn - I think it has sunk in now but it's still very overwhelming to think about! I told DH tonight that seeing them today (even though it was my 4th ultrasound of this pregnancy already!) felt weird b/c they are looking more like babies and seeing two babies side by side is so odd. I have read some things about twin pregnancies but honestly there is SOOOO much scary stuff online about it that with as much of a total worrier as I am, I really have to be careful about how much I let myself read. Basically with twin pregnancies you're at higher risk for EVERYTHING, things could go very wrong at any time, etc etc. So I'm trying to just pray a lot and keep myself distracted from the what ifs as much as I can. Even my doctor at my first appt with him said I seemed really freaked out. He tries to be reassuring and he's going to be doing a lot of extra monitoring so that helps.

As far as thinking about when they are born and what life will be like with twins (and 4 kids total!).... I can't even think that far yet!! That TOTALLY overwhelms and terrifies me! I'm basically in a "let's take this one week at a time" mindset right now. We did tell our boys and DS1 is SO excited - he's talking constantly about how he's going to take care of them and feed them and change their diapers, even the poopy ones! He said today he's going to be the best baby parent ever, LOL!! When we brought DS2 home he thought it was the greatest thing in the world so I know he's sincere in his excitement. So for him alone (in addition to the rest of us), I really hope things turn out ok with these little ones! He wants "girl babies" and I know my parents are hoping for one or both to be girls so that scares me too - so much pressure in addition to my own GD!