A look Back on our first 20 weeks

It all started on March 25th, 2009....... This is when we started taking the low dose fertility drug called Clomid to regulate my Lutel Phase. The clomid cycle was a 5 day course, over those 5 days and about 2 weeks to follow I experienced a few side effects such as: Hot Flashes, Mood Swings and Cramping. I was extremely emotional about 2 weeks into April, this is when my lovely husband suggested that we test early. We decided to test on April 17th, 2009, this was the night of our Submarine Ball. We tested in the morning and guess what!!!!!! POSITIVE!!! For us it was a little surreal because we had tested 5 days before my cycle was due!!

We had our first ultrasound at 5 1/2 weeks along where we were suprised to see 2 sac's, they said congratulations you have TWINS! They kept looking around at my ovaries and all of a sudden a tiny little sac appeared, as the doctor panned through there was sure enough 3 sac's. However, that 3rd sac was extremely smaller than the other 2, so they said for now definately twins and we will take another look in a week. At 6 1/2 weeks we retured to the doctor where we were completely shocked to find 3 heartbeats, we now know we are expecting fraternal triplets. We continued with weekly ultrasounds until just after our 12th week, just to ensure babies were growing correctly due to our past losses, everything was going great! At 15 weeks I was sent to the Perinatologist (high risk prenatal) to continue care. We were seen every 2 weeks to make sure there was no complications going on.

Since Carl and I are impatient we did not want to wait until 20 weeks to find out the genders of our triplets, so at 15 weeks and 5 days we had a 3/4D ultrasound and found out that we were having 2 little boys and a little girl!!! We were so excited!!!!


We are now at present: On August 12th, 2009 we went in for a routine ultrasound and after 3 long hours of measuring each part of each baby we found out that we had a VERY short cervix. My cervix should be 3 to 4 cm and it measured only 1.33, they checked it 2 other times and it stayed stable at 1.38 and 1.40. So after and 8 day stay in the hospital we were sent home still on strict bedrest only able to get up and use the restroom. You know some people think it may be hard to stay put in bed but I love these babies and would do absolutley ANYTHING for them!! Our goal is 33 weeks gestation so hopefully they can get there, we also have our mini goals the first is 24 weeks that is when the babies are viable out of the womb! Wish us luck!!!