May 29th I went into the fertility specialist to have a Viability Ultrasound. This is common after IVF to ensure that you are actually pregnant as many of the fertility drugs can cause false positives. It is also done because not every pregnancy will actually progress to a baby. At this ultrasound we found that the pregnancy was viable. Not only was the pregnancy viable but its twins!
I was only five weeks a long so they could not see heartbeats but the could see two sacs each with their own spine. On the way home from our appointment we called the few people we had told about our pregnancy to tell them that there was two.
On June 6th I went back in for another viability ultrasound since the heartbeats had not been seen on the first ultrasound. It was on that day that we heard their heartbeats for the first time.
Baby A
The doctor let us know everything looked great and gave us a referral to a Maternal Fetal Medicine Doctor (MFM) a specialist in high risk pregnancies. We were given a due date of January 25th and instructed to continue all medications including the progesterone shots until the second trimester to increase the probability of a successful pregnancy. I went on feeling great I didn't have a lot of morning sickness and I was able to easily resolve it by eating a popsicle. I attribute never having much morning sickness to feeling sick during the years of fertility treatments - haha. I had a different perspective on what sick was. After this appointment we told the rest of our family and close friends about the pregnancy but still kept it pretty private.
June the 17th I was in extreme pain and thought there might be something wrong with the pregnancy. We called the fertility clinic to see what we should do. The on call nurse said the pain wasn't in a location that was a concerned while pregnant. It could be a sign of something else like appendicitis so we should go to the hospital. At the hospital they did an ultrasound to check on the babies.
Since everything was okay with the babies I went in for a MRI to see if there was something else going on. Everything came back fine and we were told to get into the MFM right away for a double check.
June 21st we went in for our first appointment with the MFM. Another Ultrasound was done at this appointment to double check on the status of the babies. This was the first time I had not had a Transvaginal Ultrasound during all the fertility treatments and the pregnancy up to this point.
Baby A
Baby B
I had continued to be in a lot of pain which she explained to me was because our babies were growing at a faster than average rate. The stretching associated with this was the source of the pain and was not going to go away. The rest of the appointment went on like a normal obstetrics appointment would. We talked about how to have a healthy pregnancy, what to expect, and I asked questions. There was two big things I asked about. One was if it was going to be safe for me to travel because I was leaving on vacation in a couple of weeks. The second was if I was going to be having a c-section. The doctor said that even with the pain it was completely safe for me to travel but i would need to wear a belly brace from this point forward. She also told me that twins does not mean you must have a c-section. We were also given a new due date January 4th. This new due date was our twin due date. A twin due date is given because multiple gestation pregnancies are less likely to go forty weeks.
In July we went on vacation to California to see my grandfather for his ninetieth birthday and tell him in person that I was pregnant.
We had a great time. We went to San Francisco,
we hiked through the giant sequoias in Calaveras Big Trees State Park,
and enjoyed some time at Lake Tahoe.
Once I returned from vacation I had the last appointment of my first trimester. On July eighteenth I went in and everything looked great.
We were a third of the way there and the largest risk of miscarriage had past. It was at this point that we announced our pregnancy to the world.
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