Thursday, June 4, 2009

First OBGYN Appointment

I was released to my OBGYN! WooHoo!

I went for my first appt. today after being released by my RE. It was actually a pretty uneventful appointment. Since I've already had so much monitoring and tests etc. all she did today was talk to me about delivering twins, answered questions and did some more blood work. I was kind of relieved since my cervix seems to be easily irritated, I really didn't want anything done that could upset it further. I've still had a few bouts of red bleeding.....but more spotting now, instead of bleeding like before our ER visit last week. My Dr. seemed completely unfazed by it and said that 1 out of 4 of all of her patients experience bleeding in the first trimester and are fine. She said it's actually about 50% of women carrying twins or more though, so that made me feel much better. :)

My official due date is January 10, 2010, however since it's twins, my "twin due date" is December 19th. (37 weeks) She said if you haven't already delivered, they will schedule a C-section at 38 weeks. (The day after Christmas!) Twin pregnancies are ALWAYS C-sections with her practice and I would be delivering at Delnor in Geneva. It's much riskier and stressful on the babies to try a vaginal birth because it's hard for them to turn etc. when they're sharing such a tight space with another baby, so they automatically do C-sections. I had hoped I would be able to at least try to deliver the old fashioned way, but I have so many friends who labored for hours, only to have a C-section anyway. To be honest, I would rather just do the C-section and be done with it. :) Plus, I want to do whatever is safest for the babies no matter what.

We don't have another appointment with my Dr. until June 29th, however since I am officially categorized as "high risk" we are meeting with their high risk OB, Dr. Pombar, next Thursday. He will determine when our next ultrasound will be etc. They monitor twin pregnancies more closely, so Dr. Pombar will explain what they will watch for etc.

All in all, it went well.

We are SO lucky to have all of you in our lives and we can't wait to share our journey to parenthood with all of you!!!!!

Please keep the prayers coming!!!!

Thanks for being here!!!

Love,
T & A (and the twins)

5 comments:

Josée Martens said...

I am so glad your OB made you feel so good. And congratulations on graduating to the OB! THat is a BIG milestone!

Merry Christmas to yoU!!!

Brice Barnes said...

Very Exciting that you have Graduated to the OB. Yay what a monumental step! We go to the OB on June 18 for the first time...so exciting!

Sounds like everything is looking great!

Kris said...

Sounds like your appt went great! How exciting to graduate to the OB:) I was in labor with L for 36 hours and ended up doing a c-section too. He was too big and didn't move AT ALL after pushing for almost three hours.

michaela said...

I am so excited things are progressing well for you and you had a great appointment!! You have tons of prayers from me!!

Chelsea Leis said...

I never knew twin deliveries are far more riskier than normal deliveries. It's also good to see that your first visit to the OBGYN went fine.