What a wonderful day!

Ok - work is finally done for the day, dinner is done, DH is playing x-Box, and our dog is chewing an incredibly stink bully stick by my feet. So now I am taking a few minutes to write more about today since my earlier post was hasty.

We arrived at our appointment at 9:01 (thanks to shitty traffic) and proceeded to wait 25 minutes for our name to be called. All the while my stomach is so flip-floppy I feel like I'm going to hurl at any moment. What a ball of nerves I was!! And BTW, it wasn't just me. DH had a hard time falling asleep last night as his mind raced at the thought of how today would go, all we're going to need for multiple babies, where we're going to fit multiple babies in our little 2 bedroom apartment, etc. You know, all those things new dads worry about when they realize "Holy shit, I'm going to be a dad!"

Anyway, they called us in, I emptied my bladder, hopped on the table, and the doc & nurse came in shortly after. Doc said her hello's and then said that because this was only the 6 week ultrasound we may not see much. She said ideally what she'd like to see by this point is a gestational sac and a yolk sac. And that if we saw a fetal pole or a heartbeat that's cool too, but we shouldn't expect to see those this early on. Ok, so let's begin. She puts the vaginal u/s wand in and starts moving it around. She said she's going to look around first and then she'll explain to us what she's seeing. I spot the 2 sacs as she's fishing around with the wand but I don't say anything (after all I could be wrong and I don't want to sound like a Miss Know-it-all patient.) So she then says there are 2 sacs and she points them out to us. She instantly spots the yolk sac in the more prominent sac in the picture I posted and at first says she doesn't see a yolk sac in the second one. Then she moves the wand slightly and says, "oh wait...yep, there's a yolk sac in both." WOW!!! We're thrilled!! So 2 sacs, 2 yolk sacs - AWESOME news! The picture she gave us wasn't the best one, but oh well, we're just happy to have this first pic of our little ones.

Doc is happy with the results and says we'll repeat the u/s next week and that one should be the "fun one". By next Wednesday night when we have the u/s we'll be 6 weeks and 6 days so there's a really good chance of seeing the heartbeats. (Still a chance that we won't see them, but good chance that we will.) And the doc that's doing the u/s next week is my fave, Dr V. As you remember, he's the one who did my emergency surgery in August and managed to save my last ovary. So that u/s will be Wednesday night at 7:45pm - odd that they'll be open that late the night before Thanksgiving and damn that's going to be a LONG day of waiting for that appointment but hey, we'll take it!

So where do we go from here? Well, we certainly don't run out and buy two of everything yet. I'm no Debbie Downer, but I'm a realist and at this point we've seen 2 sacs with 2 yolk sacs, but a heartbeat is what we need to see before we can really say "We're having twins". Even DH said he feels the same way - like we're both beyond excited that so far everything is looking great and it looks like we're having twins, but it won't really sink in and be official until we see the heartbeats. Because a lot can happen in a week - perhaps they'll both have beautiful strong heartbeats next week (would love this option.) Perhaps one of them will just stop growing and we'll be down to a singleton (don't like this option but it does happen often and we'd love one as much as we'd love two.) There's even still a chance that there could be more than 2 heartbeats. If one of the embies split, one of the sacs we saw today could end up having a set of identical twins in it. (This most likely will not be the case, but it could happen and scares the shit out of me.)

So yeah, we'll wait to see what happens before we go stocking up on baby stuff, but I do need to call the OB and get my appointment made for after the RE releases me in a couple weeks. Since I'll be a high-risk patient now for 3 reasons (I'm old, it's multiples, and I have a cervix that may need to be stitched up) this blog will probably be hopping the entire pregnancy with OB & perinatologist appointments left & right.

But for now I'm going to sit back and smile. We have 2 lovely sacs with yolk sacs. They are in the uterus this time so it's not an ectopic pregnancy. Within the next week, we'll get to see our new additions again. And then the very next day we'll spend a wonderful Thanksgiving with my kids, my granddaughter, my siblings, and my parents. Life is very, very good.