16 Week Appointment

We had our 16 week appointment this morning!

We had a rough start to the day even though daylight savings time was working to our advantage, but my gag reflexes were working against me. Some days I'm totally fine and some days I can barely even choke down food without them acting up. Thankfully nausea has never been a factor, so once I throw up, it's over and I count myself incredibly lucky.

Though throwing up my raisin bran made us get on the road a little late, the office is always running a little behind so we saw Dr. Esplin the same time we did last time when we were on time. We always have an ultrasound (awesome perk of having three in there) and it has been the nurse the last few times, but this time it was the doctor. It is always so awesome to see three bouncing babies on the screen, and they are all usually always wiggling around. It's so cool.

Dr. E first started off with saying that the identicals' placenta is low lying and at this point looks like it is covering my cervix, which is called placenta previa and is kind of a big deal. Since it's still early, there is still a chance that it could change as the uterus grows, but with the amount of placenta to support three babies there really isn't much space in there that isn't covered with placenta. But we've got our fingers crossed that it just looks covered and will not actually be covered in the coming weeks of uterine growth.

As they were checking the heart rates I know that Dr. E could tell the gender of one of the identical twins and he asked if we wanted to know. We said definitely, but only if we could know all of them at the same time. He was great and said he wouldn't tell until he could see all three, but that also meant that maybe we wouldn't be able to tell the one that was feet down, baby C. We were totally fine with that but then he wiggled baby C who flipped a little and then he was able to say with 90% surety that he knew. He asked if we were okay with 90% or if we wanted to wait, but how do you wait when 90% sure sounds so good??

He told us what he saw and then went to show us. He panned over to what he could see in between baby C's legs, and to us it looked like a boy, but then he shifted and said there was nothing there (which we thought we kind of saw at that point, but we're no professionals) and pointed out the umbilical cord, which is what we thought made it a boy. But with 90% surety we can say that we're having a girl! Then he shifted over to the identicals to baby A (which he labeled baby B today) and said it was the baby he could tell really easily because it was really obvious that there was a boy part, and it was super obvious and definitely didn't look like an umbilical cord! Then we checked out the middle baby and he got a better view and it also definitely looked like a boy!

Dillon kept saying that's how it would be. I totally wanted the identicals to be girls and have the single one be a boy, but every time he would say it'd be the opposite I couldn't help but feel he was right. And every time I'd see a picture of identical twin boys I would think how cute they were but how I wanted girls and then bam, I would get that little inkling the Dillon was right. I mean, beggars can't be choosers and we really just want healthy babies, but we were hoping for both genders in any kind of combo.

So as long as Baby C doesn't turn into a boy at our 18 week appointment (major fingers crossed), we're having two boys and a girl! We really couldn't be more thrilled! And even though I wanted the identicals to be girls and the single a boy, how could I complain--we are getting both genders! So that and healthy babies is all we could ask for. Uh, I guess besides the whole placenta previa thing to go away...and to not deliver too early...and to not get twin to twin transfusion or gestational diabetes or preeclampsia...so a decent amount of things I guess ha.

Woooo!