I will start this post with the very first scan.
8th July 2013
8.5 weeks along and I had so far had the elusive morning sickness which had not showed its ugly head with our first wee darling Harry. This led to us thinking, well it's either a girl or (said jokingly) it's twins....
We saw something straight away although thought perhaps it was my bladder or another organ, I eventually asked the sonographer, "ummmmm what's THAT!" Without hesitation she replied "that's your OTHER baby".......
Lots of nervous laughter and disbelief followed accompanied by shifty glances at each other as we thought to ourselves, how are we going to handle this?!! We are so happy though! Two more beautiful babies to love!
The scan showed one large sac and one much smaller one. The smaller one held a wee foetal pole which measured a week behind its womb buddy.
Measurements were taken and a dr was called in to deliver the prognosis.
This is the point where we are told that our baby 'b' is not likely to survive even a week longer.
This is due to the likelihood of a chromosomal abnormality which is suggested by the small size of the baby but also the sac is measuring three weeks behind the gestation of its occupant, but as they are both di/di twins (separate placenta and separate sac) then it should not affect baby 'a'.
There wasn't much solace in this news as a baby is a baby and it was OUR baby.
We are told to wait and see what happens thus beginning the long wait and see journey that is our twin pregnancy...
Next would come our 10.5 week scan...
The first time we saw that it was TWINS!
Twin A large sac
Twin B small sac
Here you see both babies and Twin A's yolk sac
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