I had my first ultrasound on Friday, December 19th. James was still in Bahrain so I promised to IM him with the results. I was very nervous; still in shock that I was actually pregnant. Dr. Martin came in and got to work. She showed me the "yolk sack" - really it was just a dark spot on the computer screen. She did some measuring and some more poking around. Low and behold there was another dark spot. Ahhh, this one was just a cyst on my ovary. But wait, ANOTHER dark spot. Dr. Martin did some more measurements and yes, this, too, was a yolk sack. There are two. Two. TWO! I did not know if I should laugh or cry. We knew going in the chance for having a multiple pregnancy was much higher than normal. But that happened to other people, not us. We had joked about having two. Even joked about three. But WE were joking. The ultrasound was not. Two!
Dr. Martin was great (as she always is). We discussed the possibility of a "vanishing twin" - where one of the yolk sacks disappears. It was still so early she did not want to confirm this as a "twin pregnancy". We scheduled another ultrasound for 4 days later.
As soon as I left Dr. Martin's office, I sent James THE text - - "there are two". I immediately got a phone call. "Two what" he asked. "Two yolk sacks" I responded. Then it was quiet. After a long pause I got James' reaction; "oh my, twins!". I explained what Dr. Martin explained about the vanishing twin and still too early to tell. All James could say at the point was "wow" (and that's all I got out of him for a while). We just held our breath and wait. Oh what a long weekend it was going to be!
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