I'm not sure if I'll stick to this or not, if it will be beneficial or not, or even if anyone will read it or not, but either way I've decided to do the customary thing and start a 'holy shit we're having three babies oh my god holy shit' blog. Since finding out I've of course been scouring the internet for information on multiples and one thing I've found not only interesting and informative but extremely soothing and comforting is real live people's personal accounts of their lives with triplets. Maybe I'll be able to offer that to someone else, maybe not. Time will tell. But until then, here's a little bit about MY triplet situation and how we got there:
I'm 29, my husband and I will have been married for 4 years this May and have been together for the better part of 14. We met in junior high, dated through most of high school, went our separate ways for a few years after we graduated and then found our way back to where we needed to be. We married in Vegas on the ten tear anniversary of when we first started 'going out' in high school. My point being is that we're as meant to be as could be, very stable, very established, and were very read to start a family. I don't know if that's important, probably not. Oh well.
We've been living in our current home for a little over 3 years, and have been busy with the massive task of renovating an ugly 1971 fixer. We've been knocking off projects at an alrightish pace and the last thing we completed was the 'office' which would 'one day' be a nursery. After that was finished we started having the baby talk more and more frequently and seriously. Finally we decided that we'd allow ourselves one more summer to get drunk on patios, go camping and rip around on our Rhino and generally just be irresponsible young adults before trying to conceive. We also decided that instead of going to Mexico with friends in the fall, we'd have a baby. So that MUST mean we were ready. We threw caution and condoms to the wind at the end of August.
We copulated like bunnies pretty much all fall. After 2 cycles I got a little more serious about it, cut out caffeine and wine, read up on all the ins and outs (lol). My gift to my husband on his 29th birthday at the end of November was a positive pregnancy test. I know, adorable right?? So it took us a very average 3 months to get pregnant. I kind of just expected that everything else would just keep going right along all average like. It did not.
The day before my birthday 2 weeks later I had my first appointment with the obstetrician. I have a thyroid condition so I was referred because apparently it really ups the risk factor with pregnancies. I didn't know what to expect, I thought I was just going in for a hey, how ya doin? consultation. It was not that. I had my first full exam (sorry about those sasquatch legs, doc!) and my first ultrasound, I was right around 6 weeks along. Oh! You are having a twin pregnancy! he said. I teared up a little bit, that was actually kind of neat, exciting. Then came an oh, wait. Wait for what? What's wrong?? There are THREE, he said. Uhhhh, three WHAT? I said. Three heartbeats, he said. And to be perfectly honest everything after that is kind of a blur. He sent me to the hospital to have another ultrasound with the radiologist to confirm what me saw. My husband was at work an hour or so away so he couldn't make it it, thankfully my best friend and 'person' came with me, picking me up and handing me a pumpkin spice tea. Needless to say the doc at the hospital confirmed it, pretty sure my BFF pooped a little and we walked out of the hospital in a daze.
Since then it's been a wait and see because it was so, so early on. But today I'm almost 12 weeks along and everyone is still present and accounted for. Two identical twins sharing a sac and a fraternal sibling chilling out in their own. We could see them wiggling all around on the last ultrasound, pretty amazing. I've been a pretty regular visitor at the OBGYN's office and the nurses there are just shitting themselves since none of them have ever seen a triplet pregnancy before. EVERYONE's shitting themselves, ourselves included. But our feelings have been a little more of a roller coaster, a lot of fear, disbelief and maybe even anger mixed in with the joy. It's going to be a ride, that's for sure.
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