Hi guys!
I thought to up date those who is following our story as last time I did it was 1 month ago.
I am 20 weeks tomorrow(Monday 24 October) and size of a house.
Since I haven't had any morning sickness what I ve been doing constantly during this pregnancy is putting on weight !
So before starting IVF (ICSI) I was just under 80 kg and now 100 kg...
Im sure( and hope) its all water!
Im feeling fine and even better since I stopped working 3 weeks ago. Unfortunately I have tendency of not sleeping through the night and seems 2a.m. -5a.m. is the time of struggle...
I cant really feel proper kicks yet but little flatters only when lying down on one or another side and to be honest I have no idea which baby /babies doing it.
So as most of you know im carrying 2 sets of identical twins which is a high risk pregnancy by itself but since sometime we realised that both sets might be developing TTTS due to discrepancies in sizes of babies in each set. So we ve been shifted from having scans every other week to every week...
So 2d set (Boys) doing not too bad now and doctors hoping it will go that way. Babies have 14-17% size discrepancies but share equal size of placenta.
However 1st set (Girls) are always been more worry since day 1 as it was obvious not only size discrepancies but unequal sharing of placenta. Couple of weeks ago size discrepancy shifted to 30% and level of amniotic fluid in the smallest girl sack went really low. She was diagnosed with sFGR type 2 and last Thursday we ve been told that she is not doing very well and will be dead within week or so...
The problem is with identical twins they not only share same placenta but vessels which connect one to another and when one twin is unwell/dead another one starting to develop same symptoms and basically die too.
In my case as I carry 4 babies and have 2 placentas one of the placentas( with girls in it) is right under another ( boys in this one) .Even though boys wont be affected if both girls become unwell or die the position of placenta ( close to the cervix) will make it impossible to carry whole pregnancy .
Anyway before I bore you to death with the details in nutshell it looked like that if we leave thing with out surgery we would loose whole pregnancy ...
So decision was made to go ahead with laser surgery (performed by prof K.Nicolaides in Kings College Hospital) to separate girls vessels (connecting them to each other).
As scary (and painful) this experience was it was amazing to be able to see their little feet, hands , tiny nails and little lips through the camera!
Medicine is amazing thing!
So we don't know what outcome will be and of course we are hoping for the best outcome possible to have 4 healthy babies by the end of this pregnancy we still need to pray as now that 10% of survival for or smallest girl only in God's and nature's hands!
*Sensitive* BFP
Confusing six-week scan: reflection?
Boys Boys Boys!
