13dp5dt: It's Trips!?

GOOD NEWS: So we finally got the call we were waiting for, the call went like this..."Hi. Your numbers look good. OMG! Your beta is 1602. You might have twins with a spare!" That means ALL THREE wonderfully beautiful in vitro fertilization (IVF) embryos have survived. ALL THREE are growing happily in my belly. I am officially pregnant with multiples at 4 weeks and 4 days. As IVF goes, everything has been such a waiting game. Now here we are, we have with definite numbers. OMG! The next wait is the ultrasound to see if the triplets or the strong twins will have amazing flickering heartbeats on the ultrasound. This will be an amazing birthday gift at the end of November.

BAD NEWS: If indeed 3 embryos grow, our doctor suggests we consider selective reduction. What is selective reduction? Selective reduction is when you terminate one of the embryos in utero at 10-12 weeks. Due to the medical and health risks of having triplets, the doctor makes sense.  Selective reduction was awful to consider on the day of the embryo transfer - the goal was to be pregnant not get rid of one. I cried before the embryo transfer just thinking about it. People are blessed to be fertile and they don't even know it. We have to buy babies, pray, and work so hard to get this far. I was shocked thinking about having to kill one when have come such a long way. I was convinced that our abnormal chromosomes will follow us and all 3 would not grow. Boy, was I wrong. Hopefully, like with our first experience, we will have a twin that becomes a vanishing twin and cannot grow on it's own. Then we will not have to make this awful decision. My husband feared that I would have to make this decision on my own while he is in Afghanistan for a year. We are given what we can handle - I pray this is something that we don't have to handle.

HISTORY: IVF is a waiting game. You wait to get your period to start your medications/injections (10/17), you wait for the eggs to grow, you wait for the good day for an egg retrieval (10/26), you wait to see if the egg and sperm will hook up and make embryos on it's own or through injection, you wait for the embryo transfer day (10/31), you wait for the first (11/10) and second blood test (11/12) to confirm the pregnancy, and then you wait for your ultrasound (11/26). November equals the longest month ever.