Hoping for a Chance: Anatomy Scan was Today

Monday, November 7, 2011

Anatomy Scan was Today

And the babies looked great!!! Scrappy was in a great position so the tech started getting measurements right away. No abnormalities (aside from a single umbilical artery on Scrappy, which can be totally incidental). 2 little hearts, 2 little brains, 4 little kidneys, everything on both babies was where it should be and looked totally normal. Scrappy is small, measuring about 2 weeks behind, but that could be from the single umbilical artery and me not being able to eat much in the past few weeks.

And the sexes are......

Girls!!! We are team Pink all the way. Two little girls! I am so excited and ready to move forward with this pregnancy without constantly worrying about major genetic issues.

Thank you for all of the thoughts and prayers. I truly believe that they helped with the wonderful results we got today. :)

5 comments:

MeganNovember 7, 2011 at 6:57 PM
Congratulations on team pink!! So glad to hear everything looks good :)
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AnonymousNovember 7, 2011 at 7:16 PM
Yay pink! I'm so happy for you. I hope the good news continues. You deserve to enjoy every minute of this pregnancy (aside from the nausea of course... I hope that gets better for you).
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Katib77November 7, 2011 at 9:44 PM
So glad to her the scan went well. And congrats on team Double Pink!
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btsrc5November 8, 2011 at 2:59 PM
Yayyyyy!!! Congratulations on your little girls. I am so happy that everything is perfect and the a/s went well.
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RhodyMomToBeNovember 9, 2011 at 2:08 PM
Congratulations on your 2 little girls!!!! So happy for you! :)
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Glossary of acronyms and terms

2ww- Two week wait, the 2 weeks after ovulation before testing for pregnancy

3dt and 5dt- 3 and 5 day transfer. This refers to how long after retrieval, transfer is done. Generally 3dt is done when there are fewer embryos to chose from, 5dt allows you to watch and see which embies are most likely to make it prior to transfer.

AF- Aunt Flo (period)

BBT- Basal body temparature, waking temperature used for charting

Beta- Beta HCG levels in the blood are used to determine pregnancy. Betas should double every 48-72 hours in the weeks following implantation. Once the level is over 2000, the doubling will slow down.

BFN- Big fat negative (negative HPT)

BFP- Big fat positive

CD- Cycle day (CD1 is first day of period)

Chart- Taking temparature every morning to look for a pattern of ovulation

CH- Crosshairs, lines that mark ovulation on fertility friend

DPO- Days past/post ovulation

ER- Egg retrieval. This consists of sticking a needle transvaginally and aspirating the follicles to get eggs directly from the ovaries

ET- Embryo transfer. The procedure is similar to IUI, but instead of sperm, embryo(s) are placed in the uterus. My clinic does this under ultrasound guidance so you can see the embies get put in.

FF- Fertility Friend, the software that I use to chart

IF- Infertility

IUI- Intrauterine insemination

IVF- In vitro fertilization

HCG- Human chorionic gonadotropin, hormone detected in pregnancy tests

HPT- Home pregnancy test

O- Ovulation

OPK- Ovulation predictor kit

PG- Pregnant

POAS- Pee on a stick, take a pregnancy test

Stims- Injectable medications that stimulate follicle production (follicle stimulating hormone +/- leutenizing hormone)

Trigger- Injection that triggers ovulation, usually HCG