It’s a…….BOY!!!
Wow! I am so behind on posting. I am really behind on posting about the new baby due to arrive in December. I am half way there and I haven’t wrote anything. Maybe because I spent the first three months resting whenever possible! So from the beginning….
In April I started having pain in my lower back and hip. I have had this before and I went to the chiropractor and it went away for over a year. So I headed back to a chiropractor. He wanted to x-ray my back. They asked the standard question, “Are you pregnant or could you possibly be pregnant?” I sat there for a minute and then answered, “I don’t think I am but I can’t say that I’m not.” Needless to say, they did not do the x-ray and told me to let them know when I found out. I still did not think much about it but a few weeks later they asked if it was okay to go ahead with the x-ray. I had to tell them no. That afternoon I bought a pregnancy test and it was positive!!!
I wish I was patient enough to surprise people with the news in a creative way but I am not. I immediately called Nick at work. I then called two friends to share the news with them.
A few weeks later I started spotting. I called the doctor’s office and they scheduled an ultrasound for that morning. I was on the table and the technician was quickly able to see a heart beat and I was able to relax. I asked her, “Are you sure there is only one?” She assured me there was only baby and that everything looked fine. A little bit later I could tell she saw something interesting on the screen. She looked at me and said, “I am going to have to take something I said back. There is not just one baby.” She then turned the screen to show me two beating hearts! However, she said something about the babies being in the same amniotic sac. This did not mean much to me. I thought it just meant that we were having identical twins.
They were identical but as I soon found out babies in the same amniotic sac face many risks. My doctor called and I could tell she was not happy about the situation. So I started researching and found out that the mortality rate was 50% for both babies. They would also have to be delivered premature. You can read more about mo-mo twins here.
Thursday, I went back for another ultrasound because I had started bleeding again. At this appointment I found out that only one baby had a heartbeat. I had a tear in my placenta. The tear was located next to the baby without a heartbeat and the doctor thinks that baby lost blood supply. Part of me was relieved that I would not be facing such a high-risk pregnancy but the rest of me was sad at the loss of a baby. I like knowing that the babies were identical twins so in December I will get to me our new little guy but I will also get to find out what the second baby would have looked like too!

I was sick a lot the first trimester. I could still function to do the things I had to do but I was constantly nauseous. I also continued to have bleeding. This was the result of a blood clot that had formed near the placental tear. Because of this I had several ultrasounds which always showed a healthy little baby but it also caused a lot of stress on mommy. We had one ER trip, and many visit to the doctor’s office but by about week 15 or 16 things seemed to be better. I was feeling the baby move which is always such a great sensation.
I had an ultrasound at 17 weeks and they were able to tell that the baby was most definitely a boy! I was a little worried about how Bailey would handle another brother but she did great. She was excited and said she would love a boy. Noah said, “That’s great!” Luke does not have a clue what is going on but I think his life is going to be the most disrupted in December!
The day after the ultrasound the doctor’s office called back to say that I needed to have another ultrasound at 20 weeks. When I asked why they said they would have a nurse call me. A little later, my doctor called. From past experience I know that this is not usually a good sign. She told me that the babies bowels were echogenic. I had never heard of this before. My doctor said that she was just going to consider it another one of my weird things and hope that it would be gone at my next ultrasound. She did say that it could be a possible soft marker for cystic fibrosis and down syndrome. So, I headed to the internet and researched echogenic bowels. I then decided to quit reading all the horrible stories and just believe that my baby was being knitted together perfectly!
I went back yesterday for my 20 week ultrasound and was told that they saw no sign of echogenic bowels! They also did a very detailed scan looking for any defects that are typically associated with down syndrome. The baby had no sign of any defect!!! He was active and turned his face so that we were able to get a lot of views of him. The tech was also able to confirm that we were having a boy.
We can’t wait to meet our new baby in December! We are thankful that he is fearfully and wonderfully made!

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