8w1d u/s pics

We're calling them Huey, Dewey, & Daisy...

u/s update

Everything looks great!

Baby A: measuring 8w3d
Baby B: measuring 8w2d
Baby C: measuring 8w1d

Heartbeats look great as well.

8 weeks

Webbed fingers and toes are poking out from your baby's hands and feet, his eyelids practically cover his eyes, breathing tubes extend from his throat to the branches of his developing lungs, and his "tail" is just about gone. In his brain, nerve cells are branching out to connect with one another, forming primitive neural pathways. You may be daydreaming about your baby as one sex or the other, but the external genitals still haven't developed enough to reveal whether you're having a boy or a girl. Either way, your baby — about the size of a kidney bean — is constantly moving and shifting, though you still can't feel it.

Updates

- I am back from my grandfather's funeral and am so incredibly grateful I was able to attend.

- I made my appointment with the perinatologist for May 12th (I have to go 4 weeks w/o an u/s).

- Our interview for Fertility.Chase is this week (Tuesday and Wednesday) and I get a free u/s on Wednesday for the show (SCORE).

- I am having trouble eating the amount of food the nurse told me to in order to support these babies. She wasn't kidding when she said eating for this pregnancy was a full time job.

- I am terrified that we will go for our u/s this week and we will have lost a baby (vanishing twin).

I will leave you will pics of when we told each of our parents about the pregnancy...priceless.

My mom & step-dad

My dad

MIL & FIL

Telling our Parents

Yesterday's news is starting to sink in a little more. I did wake up at 4 am though and go, "OMG, we're having triplets!!!" Needless to say, I couldn't get back to bed.

With the recent news of so many babies and in light of what's happening in our lives right now we've decided to tell our parents this week. I am going to see my dad on Thursday for the funeral and want to tell him in person even if we aren't that far along (he lives in AL so I don't see him but once a year). We are telling my mom and step-dad tomorrow night, and MIL this weekend (her bday is Thursday, what a great present huh?). We figured that like a lot of you said, we will need their support if anything happens and we're just too darn excited. Can you imagine their reactions?? They didn't even know we did a FET, now we're having triplets! WOW! I plan to take pics of each of them opening their present.

Here is what each is getting.

I had my first gagging experience over the toilet this AM but no throwing up...
Thank you for all the congratulations and even lurkers coming out to say hello.

I am honored to share our story with you all.

1st u/s

umm, it's TRIPLETS!!!

RE said I had a 20% chance of getting pregnant with one. A 3% chance that all three would take. All three implanted!

OMG!!

We are in shock (but thrilled).

Triplet A measure 6w6d
Triplet B measuring 6w6d
Triplet C measuring 6w4d (should I be concerned it's measuring two days behind?)

All heartbeats look great.

RE wants us to see a peri to talk about the risks of three and possible SR but we've already decided that's not an option. If God gave us three, we are having three.

Grandpa

This morning, very early, I received the news that my Grandfather had passed away. It is very hard to deal with but knowing that he wanted to go makes it a little bit easier. He had his leg amputated last year after a blood clot and has just gone drastically downhill ever since. He and my grandmother, who have been married for 60+ years, both made the decision to refuse antibiotics if they were to get sick and have a DNR (do not resuscitate). He got pneumonia and refused the antibiotics and died in his sleep last night. For the last three years they have both been saying that they lived a great life but they were done.

I have my first u/s tomorrow, which will be a joyous day, then, later this week, I will fly to be with my Dad and attend my Grandfather's funeral.

Thank you for your thoughts and prayers as my family (specifically my Grandmother) deal with this loss.