Twice Blessed (First U/S Ment.)

A few weeks ago, I proclaimed January 22nd to be the best day of our lives, because we received our first-ever definitively positive beta. And today, February 9th, is the new best day of our lives, because we got to see this…

And we got to see and hear two perfect, strong little heartbeats…

One baby measured 6w5d and had a heartbeat of 135 bpm, which is perfect…

The other baby measured 6w2d and had a heartbeat of 125, which is fabulous as well…

There was one little area of concern, although it will likely turn out to be nothing. My local RE spent a lot of time checking out the first baby, over and over again, without saying a word. Finally I said, “Is there something wrong?” He explained that he had been looking carefully because directly to the left of the first baby, there was a small cystic mass of some sort. He was concerned that this could be an identical twin, although he saw no heartbeat or anything. He concluded that it’s likely nothing, but I will definitely need to come back next week or so to rule it out. Um, for anyone not counting, that would mean three babies. A little scary, especially since my DH is a triplet and has a little trauma from his rough start to life (super premature, collapsed lung that required emergency surgery, etc.). Another possibility is that the mass is part of the endometrium that has just fallen away a little bit. We will watch this very closely.

Based on how far along we are today (6w4d), our due date for a singleton would have been September 30th. With twins, it will likely be several weeks earlier, so we are looking at early- to mid-September if both twins stick around for the long haul. We feel so amazingly, incredibly blessed today.

Those of you who voted twins in my poll were correct! : ) This is truly a miraculous day for us, and we thank you for reading along and sharing in our joy!