Guess it's time to make an intro.

dolphinsmakemesmile · May 2011

Hi ladies,

I lurk here..A LOT. So, I am here after 3.5 years TTC, 7 iuis, 1 miscarriage, and an IVF. I am terrified of having another miscarriage, but am trying to enjoy this pregnancy as much as I can.

So I had my first OB appt. friday (after being released from my RE). It went well. We saw the little peanuts and one was moving around so much. DH was like they can move??? Stick out tongue The OB laughed and said yes, they are babies. I'll be going once a month to him (aagghh-how will I ever make it monthly?). I was just there 2 days ago and am already stressing how long it's gonna be till I can see the babies again.

I have my NT scan at 12 weeks. He usually does them in the office but said because it's multiples he's sending me out to the hospital for all my scans. He also said I'll be getting monthly sonos (yay for that!!!). He said it's precautionary and it's to make sure both babies are growing at the same rate.

I'm also getting pulled out of work at 26 weeks. I was completely shocked!! Surprise He said he does this with all his multiple moms because the risk of pre-term of labor is very high. His goal is to get me to 35-36 weeks and he said by doing this he's been very successful at delivering full term twins. He's very thorough which I love. It's just crazy because obviously I hadn't told work yet and wasn't planning to until August. I'll have to change that now seeing as my last day will be September 1st. He said he told me now so I have plenty of time to make arrangements and do whatever I need to.

Anyway, I'm going to try to enjoy this as much as I can (even though I'm a nervous wreck) and am looking forward to gaining knowledge from you BTDT MoMs. Big Smile

babya2010 · May 2011

Congrats and welcome to the board! Best wishes for a very happy and healthy pregnancy!!

AlishaMay · May 2011

Congrats and welcome out of the closet! Wink

Wishing you a happy and healthy 9 months!

KozieKim · May 2011

Welcome! and happy and healthy pregnancy!

Babsie7 · May 2011

Welcome to the board! Sounds like you've had a long journey to get here. I'm glad you came out of lurkdom! Congratulations!!!

Mrs. Alice · May 2011

Welcome and congrats on your little miracles!

The first trimester went by painfully slow for me, now things are starting to pick up. So hang in there Wink

monkski · May 2011

congrats and welcome! I just have to say though, I would've been ticked to get pulled off of work that early. My pregnancy went fine and I worked up until 37 weeks (the day before my scheduled c-section). There is no way I would've wanted to use up my maternity leave time before the babies came. If you can pull it off, great, but you might want to think about that one twice if your pregnancy is going ok. of course, there are many reason why lots of MoM's get pulled out of work legitimately. You want to do what is best for your babies, but I wouldn't say that just because you have twins, you need to be off of work..just my two cents

RedWingsFan · May 2011

Congrats and welcome!

I agree with PP about being pulled out of work at 26 weeks - I had planned on working up until 34 weeks (that didn't happen - see my siggy), with the understanding that at any time, if things changed, I would be put on bedrest.

As it turned out, I was put on strict bedrest at 26 weeks and remained that way until I delivered, but there are a lot of MoMs on here that worked right up until the end of their pregnancies without any issues. Every pregnancy is different.