Well once again it has been an eventful month which is starting to seem pretty normal now. As I mentioned in the previous blog we had our Level 2 ultrasound at OSU MFM the first week of this month. It was really awesome to see that many pictures of the babies! All the measurements were great and the babies were both 10oz! However after we thought everything was fine the doctor came in and told us that they found the bowel to be brighter than it should be, known as echogenic bowel. This could be nothing at all, the baby could have swallowed blood during one of my episodes, a soft marker for Cystic Fibrosis, or a soft marker for Down syndrome. They said they would not think it to be downs as none of the other markers were present that they checked for and also with us being younger its not as common. But what they are wanting to check more into is the Cystic Fibrosis. I did have genetic testing done when I was in high school but what we found out that none of the doctors ever pointed out was that I only had the basic screening done to check for the cystic fibrosis gene, I think I was tested for the 23 most common and 47 others. But there are over 1600 different CF genes that I can be tested for. We have to go back the beginning of next month to see if the echogenic bowel is still showing up and if it is then I will have the full CF gene sequencing done. They told us we could do an amniocentesis but we do not feel comfortable doing this especially with the miscarriage risk being higher with this procedure when your having twins. Below are some of the pictures we got during this ultrasound! (baby A is Eli and baby B is Aly)
We also got started on our nursery! We have both the cribs and changing tables up! Zack did an awesome job putting them together by himself! It was funny though that while he was putting the first crib together he did it in the living room. He didn't realize till it was already put together that it would not fit through the nursery door lol but thankfully he didn't have to take it completely apart though to get it through. Of course we still have all the decorating to do and need to get our gliders but at least that's a big step out of the way!
Now onto this week. On Monday I started spotting, which was not like it was the other times as far as gushing, but it has been happening a couple times a day. I talked to Dr. Roberts on Monday and since it wasn't heavy or getting worse they decided to wait to see me until my regular appointment I had scheduled today. They did an ultrasound and the babies heart rates were good and once again looked great! I did figure out I am not crazy and Aly is laying parallel near/at times under my ribs. She said with twins they can get higher earlier than with singletons. The women performing our ultrasound did ask how our OSU visit was and we told her about them seeing the echogenic bowel. And she acted like its nothing to worry about and said that a lot of times it goes away and doesn't show up again! They also measured my cervix to make sure its not shortening and it is still really long with being over 4cm.
WARNING! THIS COULD BE TO MUCH INFORMATION FOR SOME READERS: But Dr. Roberts decided to do a pelvic exam and check my cervix. She used a q-tip to touch my cervix to see if it would do anything. When she took it out it was bloody which indicated that my cervix is irritated. So now that pretty much means I am not on modified bed rest yet but its probably coming in the near future. She told me as of now I can't lift hardly anything, stand up to long, or walk very long distances. Here is the 3D picture they got of Eli today but Aly would not cooperate and had her face in my back the whole time so we didn't get a picture of her.
For those of you that don't see me regularly here is the progression of the pregnancy bump this month with the last picture being from today!
So if you could keep us in prayers once again over the next month for the echogenic bowel not to show up again, my spotting to stop, and the babies to continue growing like they should! We just always remember no matter what the doctors tell us God's got this!
