8 week ultrasound!

Here are the little peanuts!!! Baby A really likes Baby B and wants to be as close to him/her as possible! LOL! Hopefully this doesn't cause problems later! Stay tuned for more scans!

8 week visit!!

We just got home from our second ultrasound and the babies are doing great!!! We have a great ultrasound but my scanner is not cooperating so I may have to run over to my neighbors house to get them up on here! I'm beginning to think they may actually be boys...if you believe the old wives' tales about the heartbeats...what do you think??

Baby A: HB 152 bpm, Measuring 7w5d
Baby B: HB 148 bpm, Measuring 7w3d

My next appointment is in two weeks. Baby A is really close to Baby B in the gestational sac so it made it kind of hard to measure Baby B's size. So I'm staying optimistic that everything is just fine with the little ones. Their heartbeats looked nice and strong so we were very happy!!

Can you say SHOCKED?!?!?!?

Miracles do happen. I'm still in shock. Kiko and I had our first U/S appointment this morning and it looks like we are having IDENTICAL TWINS!!!!! We had one gestational sac and TWO heartbeats!!!! They were also separated by a membrane which is good news, means less complications further down the road. I'm just shocked. The blood test numbers gave absolutely NO indication of twins, in fact even the doctor assumed we only had one when he came in. When he saw the sac and the second heartbeat there was no mistaking it. I started crying from all the emotion because I just haven't "felt" pregnant this entire time...so I was starting to prepare myself for the worst...this was like the BEST news of my entire life and I just can't help but smile. God has truly blessed us....TWICE.

So here are the stats...Both babies are measuring 6w1d. Baby A's Heartrate was 107 and Baby B's Heartrate was 111. Perfect!!!

Obviously it is still early, but the risk of miscarriage goes way down after you see the heartbeat so I am feeling very optimistic now. Next appointment is Monday, July 28th for our 8 week visit!!

So any guesses??? Boys or Girls??? I'm hoping for girls, Joey and Kiko are wanting boys!!

Tired of all this waiting...

It seems like all I do is wait...I am not a patient person, everyone who knows me knows this...it's going to be a LONG 9 months for me and probably everyone around me...LOL.

So tomorrow is a big milestone...6 weeks!! I still want to see what's going on in there, but that won't happen till Friday...sigh...so it's hard to know if the baby is still going or what!?!?!?! Sometimes I don't feel pregnant at all and that worries me...other times, there is no doubt, nausea, boobs hurting, tired, peeing all the time...but those aren't constant (which I guess is a good thing). Not complaining about not being sick mind you...just wishing I knew everything was ok. Someone told me the worrying won't stop till their 18...probably never...

Anyway...stay tuned for Friday...hopefully we'll have wonderful news to post! I can't wait to see our little bean!! I think I'll call him Howard....just kidding...

The Blood Doctor...

So today I had my appointment with a hematologist to make sure all was good with the pregnancy and my APS (Antiphospholipid Syndrome). His nurse is an idiot...but I liked him. I called last week to make an appointment and she was extremely rude and I just about didn't go to see him but he's the only one in Houston that specializes in APS...so I kind of had to go. Here's a sample of my conversation with her while trying to set up my appointment...

Me: "I'd like to set up an appointment with Dr. Escobar, please".
Her: "Why?"
Me: "Um...I was just diagnosed with APS and I just found that I'm pregnant and my rheumatologist said...."
Her (cutting me off): "How do you even know you have APS in the first place?"
Me: "um...because my neurologist ran a bunch of tests and the bloodwork came back testing positive for APS. My rheumatologist said that I needed to see..."
Her (again cutting me off): "Well that doesn't make sense, nobody just tests for APS. I don't think you know that you have it because it isn't something you just know you have".
Me: "umm...okkkk....but I have the tests right here and it says I do have it"
Her: Have you had any blood clots yet?
Me: Not that I'm aware of...
Her: So why do you need to come in??
Me: Because my rheumatologist said I needed to see Dr. Escobar.
Her: SIGH...I don't know if he'll want to see you just because you seem to think you have this disease and it's just really not something that you should joke about...

WTF??!?!?!?!?

yeah, ok...so fast forward to today...I see the dr (oh and Miss "your an idiot" was there too and was just as sweet as she could be). Anyway, he wants to see me every other month during the pregnancy and to help me coordinate with a perinatologist when the time comes for the delivery. I wanted to just scream at her sitting there being all nice to me in front of the doctor when she was so terrible earlier...ugh.

Ok, I got that off my chest, I needed to vent...

Back to waiting for next week when I get the ultrasound...I hope everything is going ok down there. I keep cramping which I hope is normal. Boobs don't seem to hurt as bad, but I hear that's normal too. I have no idea what is normal at this point.

Oh and congratulations to Melanee and Chris who just found out that they are having TWIN GIRLS!!!! WOOHOO!!!! I was wrong, I admit it.

Third beta!!!

Today was our third and final beta and the number is 984!! The doctor's seem happy, so I guess we are too! I have no idea what is good or not, really. LOL. Anyway, next appointment isn't until July 18 for our first ultrasound. We'll be about 6.5 weeks along then and hopefully we will be able to see the heartbeat. I will feel much better once I see that!! Also, we'll find out how many are in there too...my guess is still only one...what do you think???

Second beta is in...

Today was the second beta test. When you are pregnant early on in IVF, they check your HCG levels to make sure they are rising properly like they should. The rule of thumb is for the beta to double every 48-72 hours (or at least a 60% increase by 48 hours). So far:

6/30/08 Beta #1: 101
7/2/08 Beta #2: 192

So it's close enough to doubling for me :). Since it's not rising at a rapid rate, we're assuming that there is only one baby that made it based on the lower numbers (twins are generally twice this high)...however we won't know that for sure until our 6.5 week ultrasound!

Next beta is Monday, July 7...our 1 year wedding anniversary!! Please keep the prayers going as our little angel is not out of the woods yet!