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1st Trimester
Shock.
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Re: Shock.
Make a pregnancy ticker
"Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?...But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Matthew 6:26-27&33-34
Wow, what a surprise! I think I would have fallen off the table! Congratulations!
As for what you were told on the multiples board, they probably weren't trying to necessarily be rude or mean, more likely they were approaching you with suspicion. If I am not mistaken that board in particular has had a lot of problems with people introducing themselves with "fake" multiple pregnancies. So a person with no bump history who posts their very first post as an intro with triplets will be met with skepticism. I am sure that once things progress and they get to know you better all will be well and you'll learn a lot from those ladies.
Christ on a cracker...get over it.
She wasn't rude to you, not even a little bit. Everything she was said was true and she was just trying to be helpful. You'll realize that when you get your head out of the clouds. Also, if I had walked into my doctor's office expecting triplets and he/she had told me that they didn't forsee any problems with a triplet pregnancy AND they'd not had much experience I would run (not walk) the other way and look for a more competent and experienced doctor. Even if he/she was just telling you that to ease your mind, it's still not really helpful or realistic. Multiple pregnancies, especially triplets, are very, very rarely without issue.
This exactly.
Also, ditto running from an OB who thinks a triplet pregnancy will not have any problems. I 'only' had twins and was still on bed rest for 8 weeks before they were born at 35 weeks. It's incredibly exciting to be pregnant - especially when it is a first pregnancy and multiples to boot - but it's important to have people in your life who will keep you grounded and remind you that you're already 8 weeks into the most important battle of your life. It's going to be a tremendous battle to carry your babies long enough that they won't need to be in the NICU and perhaps impossible to carry them full-term. That's all we're trying to help you realize. And while it's exciting and precious and puppies and rainbows when they hold hands walking across the yard, you have to remember that it was a tooth and nail fight to get to that point.
If you're for real, don't check out of here, you can learn a lot and it's a great resource. Triplet mama here. It's overwhelming. It's intimidating. And yes, names are a problem. Get a new doctor, one with multiples experience. Get a perinatologist (or MFM) to do scans and make sure it looks okay. And if you have that u/s picture we can help you figure out if they are all in one sac or in seperate (which makes a big difference in terms of complications)!