Our complicated pregnancy story...

Just a little update on how everything is going! As our girls turn 1 month old, it's hard to believe we already have the first month past us! I'll start from the beginning as we've had many people asking questions on how this all started....sorry for those of you know the story!

At 18 weeks, we went in for our first ultrasound appointment with the specialist. We were so excited, thinking this would be an easy pregnancy and glad to be expecting twins! After the doctor ask a few questions, she said she needed to meet with us in the consulting room. We knew it wasn't good news by her reaction. In that appointment, she told us we had a very rare condition called TWIN to TWIN Trasnfusion Syndrome (a condition where one baby "donates" blood & nutrients to the other baby). The donor baby becomes weak and anemic, the recipient becomes large and overloaded which can lead to major heart problems. She told us we needed to get to Houston that night-she'd already made us an appointment for 9:00 a.m the next morning. By Friday, I had hours and hours of ultrasounds and LOTS of pain from all the fluid build up. The doctor decided laser ablation surgery (surgery that uses a laser light to close the blood vessels shared between the babies) was the best option to save both babies (without treatment, there was an 80- 90% chance we would lose both babies).

This was the best I felt in weeks! The fluid build up was killing my back and kidneys! They removed 4.4 lbs of fluid!

Leaving the hospital feeling like a new person!

The cute heart shaped bandages! The nurses do these for the kiddos!

For the next 8 weeks, the pregnany went great! All the weekly follow up ultrasounds went awesome! The doctor really couldn't beleive how great things had turned out!! On my last weekly appointment, June 7, she says baby B (Timber) again has very low amniotic fluid (2 cm) and baby A (Tinley) has significantly more (14 cm). She wants me to come back the next Tuesday.....however we couldn't make it that long. Sunday night (after a very uncomfortable weekend), we drove to Mercy because I was having contractions. The next few days were VERY, VERY miserable!! The fluid again had built up so fast it was causing such horrible pain in my back! I sat straight up in the hospital bed for 3 days. Laying down hurt soooo bad! What little sleep I did get, I rested my arms and head on my food tray. Shane was very sweet! He rubbed me and helped me try to get comfortable-but nothing would work! My skin was stretching so fast, it honestly felt like it was going to rip apart! My belly was so huge and pushing so far up, all I could do the last couple of days was drink milk shakes-no food at all!

                                     Day 1                                                    Delivery day....growing by the second!!

Huge! Not sure my skin can take anymore!!