We had a follow-up with our fertility doctor a week after our first and the day before our Specialist appointment. Nerves, anxiety and excitement all wrapped in one to see our doctor. We go into the room, give our doctor some time to examine the situation, then the news came. You think you are an equip to handle any news when you’ve dealt with some things that I have dealt with but some news just get to you. The good news came first. The good news was there is a healthy baby, a strong heartbeat and a good BPM. Before the excitement could happen the bad news came, again. There was no longer a second heartbeat. The embryo splitting 3 times was again something she had never personally seen but unfortunately the 2nd heartbeat was no longer there. There were still 3 yolk sacs but we lost the twins heartbeat. It was difficult to look towards the one healthy one we have left but the sadness of loss was present. You don’t realize your feelings until things happen in the moment. It was tough to process & intellectually I know nature took over and we still have 1 viable baby but the potential for triplets and 2 visible heartbeats last week was something I needed to grieve.
The next day was a bit better and we had an appointment with a High-Risk OB-GYN in Manhattan. I have seen so many specialists in regards to my Marfan Syndrome and this specialist visit will go down as one of the most anxious I have been in a doctor office. First Jazmine went upstairs alone and once she was in the examination room I was able to go up and Jerrad had to remain in the lobby. Once we were in the room the nurse came in and did an abdominal scan, then a tech came in to do a trans-vaginal scan for the doctor. Then the doctor came in. The scan definitely look different from the scans we are used to and this technology was amazing. The doctor then began to tell us what she saw not only from the scans but from the scan she then repeated herself. The pregnancy started out as monochromatic triplets, one embryo split 3 times and created identical triplets. This was something she had seen before but was SUPER RARE, OF COURSE! Unfortunately 2 of the triplets were no longer growing. One seemed to not grow past the split, one grew to have a heartbeat and then stopped and one was still growing & was healthy. She said the situation how it is, is best case scenario. Even though it was sad and hard to go through this was nature doing its job. We didn’t expect it to go this way or want it to go this way but hopefully the 2 reabsorb and our 1 unicorn baby stays viable.
