6w3d: Pair of Blessings

I think last night had to be one of my longest nights ever. I kept thinking about the idea of having to consider selective reduction if there are three growing in my belly. The feeling haunted me all night because our ultrasound, the confirmation, was this morning.

At the ultrasound, we (me, my husband, my 4 year old, and my mom) held our breath and gasped as we watched the picture on the screen. We saw 2 black holes (sacs) with 2 little flickers of light off to the side (heartbeat). We have twins. I think I'm going to tear. God really knows what you can handle. He has doubly blessed us. The fraternal twins are a healthy 6 weeks and 2 days old. They have a heartbeat of 108 bpm and 118 bpm.

So our spare that was hanging with the pair was reabsorbed into my system - the vanishing triplet. Hopefully, I won't have any surprises at 10 weeks and start to bleed like when I lost the twin 5 years ago. It was a depressing and confusing moment because I didn't know the plans of the vanishing twin.

No matter what we are still bless with our 4 year old and our twins.