18 Weeks

So all nicely and moved in with Aunty Lorna and getting waited on hand and foot. I feel so useless. I still think I am over doing it in some spots and I get pretty sore in the belly at times and very very exhausted. So glad she has a pool for this weekend! It was really hot yesterday waiting around to go to the hospital.

Rohan was happy to be here as well and did some odd jobs for Aunty Lorna around the paddocks. But at least he wasn’t going insane, and he always timed it so he did the jobs when Aunty Lorna was going out, so she didn’t help. I think he was very sneaky in that aspect.

Well I guess everyone is just telling me to get on with the news and stop stalling, and I will right now for you! Plus it must be a good sign when even your doctor can not even notice the difference between the two anymore and have to go by the cords and were they are attached, but WE HAVE TWO BLADDERS!!! In Twin 1, it has reduced which is great, Prof couldn’t see it when she was scanning for but as she kept on going back to it, it was filling up and she was happy at the size. Twin 2 it was tiny but one was there and all the thoughts of bladders really must have made a difference. (Thanks everyone!)

So they roughly weigh around 200 grams each, which when going shopping afterwards it about a block of chocolate, there is also around 2cm of fluid around them, which means they are both producing fluid. Also their little tiny heart beats and beating at a good 150 to 140 beats per minute, which is great also! So in regards to the babies and their development, we are all happy with that.

Now for the not so good news, Twin 2 dopplers or the blood flow from the placenta to it, aren’t that good at all. Which weren’t good from the start either, and this now something that is going to be monitored each week. When Rohan asked about what happens in regards to this and the outcomes, Prof Jan couldn’t really give us an answer, she shrugged and said, that we may lose Twin 2, we may not. She also said that she has also seen this kind of dopplers and the baby has survived and she has also seen dopplers that are fantastic and the baby has died. So they are no actual answer that can be given for this and she didn’t give us any percentages as well. But if Twin 2 does die, we will still end up with one baby regardless due to the laser surgery has now saved Twin 1 from contracting any of the toxins from Twin 2. You could say that we are fine with this news, there were no tears this time, but from what we can see at the moment, these two are fighters and we (hopefully) will have two babies in the end. We only need to get to 26 weeks with them, for them to be safely delivered, if you can say that.

One thing that did shocked us, was the Prof also said that the Senior sonographer that picked this up from the start in Kalg was also very shocked that the babies were still alive when we got down to Perth for the original scan. This is just proof in the belly, that these two are fighters and want to come into this world together. But we just have to keep our fingers crossed and toes and legs and arms and anything else that can be crossed that every week that we have a scan; we have two little heads, four arms and legs, two strong hearts, two growing bladders, more centimetres of fluid and a lot of movement in between.

So now Rohan has gone back home to Kalg, as the dogs have been a bit of a so and so’s and keeping the neighbours up at night. They must be missing us. Plus to get the backyard in order so he doesn’t have to do it after work. He starts work on Monday and I do as well here in Perth. We are going to miss each other very much so over this time, but just a phone call away.

So that is all from this update, the next scan is on Friday at 4pm so I will do another one again on Saturday after we have processed all the information and collate it all together.

Thank you all again for the thoughts and well wishes!

Lots of Love Bobbi-Jo, Rohan and the Ninjas

Xoxoxoxo