Bedrest stinks!!!

So Friday was my first appointment with my new OB, and I really like her. She's a no-nonsense doc which I love. So it wasn't the greatest first appointment as she had some sort of bad news. It turns out that I'm suffering from an Incompetent Cervix, which means that it is already opening due to the added weight of the twins in my uterus...that shouldn't happen for a while and if not fixed, I will lose the babies. So I've been scheduled for a cerclage to stitch my cervix shut on Wednesday. Not looking forward to the surgery, but will do whatever it takes!!

So now I'm on bedrest as my cervix is also shortening and I'm at high risk of losing the babies before then, so around I sit. And it's BORING!!!!

Anyway, say some prayers that I don't have any problems and can make it to Wednesday without any issues. Also pray that the surgery does it's job and keeps the babies nice and safe inside of me!!

12 week update!!!

Today was a wonderful day in Babies Novilla land!! I got to see the little ones and they were soooo active!! It was so amazing to watch them, I could have stayed there all day if it weren't so uncomfortable! They were squirming and moving all over the place!

This is the funny part. Because they are in the same placenta and only separated by a very thin membrane, it makes it more difficult to get measurements. So when the dr would zoom in on one of them, you would see out of the corner of a screen this foot come flying into the picture and push the one we were measuring down. I laughed so hard! Then when we'd measure the other one a hand would come flying into the frame. It was so funny! I guess with normal twins they are in their own sacs and at this early in the game, they aren't really that close to each other yet. But with identicals, since they are sharing the same placenta, they are pretty close to each other. I can see troubles with these two later if they are boys...why do I see a lot of wrestling matches happening...lol.

Here are the stats, I am so thrilled because they are both doing AMAZING!!! They have finally caught up in their size and their heartbeats were just perfect!!

Baby A: Measuring 12w0d, Heartbeat 158 bpm
Baby B: Measuring 11w6d, Heartbeat 155 bpm

I have my first appointment with my new high-risk OB on Friday!! I am very excited to meet the woman who will be caring for me and the babies for the next 6 months! She's up at Women's Hospital in the Med Center area, so I'm not looking forward to the drive, but supposedly she's one of the best high-risk OBs in town and I'm honored that she's taking us in!! On Friday, I will have some more testing done and get some more ultrasounds of the babies, so hopefully I will have some really great pics to post. The ones from today weren't that good because they kept moving around!!

10 week update!!

Today was our 10 week visit to the doctor and the babies seem to be doing well! They are still measuring a little behind but I hear that is normal. Now we wait again for another two weeks for our 12 week appointment. That will be a big one because we'll be officially "released" from the reproductive specialist to an OB...that will be nice! Unfortunately, those appointments will be in downtown Houston....not so nice. LOL. So here are the stats! I'm starting to hope they might actually be girls!! What do you think??

Baby A: Measuring 9w5d, HB 173
Baby B: Measuring 9w3d, HB 162

The old wives tale is anything over 160 is a a girl....hmmmm....one just never knows....the wait is killing Kiko!! He he he...