The journey that John and I have been on has been a rather interesting one for sure! We had been married for 3 1/2 years when we decided that it was time to start planning for a family. I had finished my Master's degree in Library Science and everything was going to fall into place.... I just knew it. After months and months of trying, a miscarriage at 8 weeks, surgeries, and even more trying, we decided to go a different route. After consulting with our doctors, we determined IUI (Inter-Uterine Insemination) was the next step to take. With any kind of fertility treatments, your odds go up for having multiples, especially fraternal due to multiple eggs fertilizing. That was a risk that John and I were willing to take.
After our first attempt with IUI, we were blessed to see those 2 LINES and even the word POSITIVE on multiple pregnancy tests! John and I were cautiously excited! We knew from experience that so many things could go wrong!
At our first ultrasound at 5 weeks, we saw one little sac (really looked like a blob to us), and realized that we must have beat the odds of having multiples when we only saw one. At our 7 ultrasound, we got to see 2 little heartbeats beating together! What an amazing thing! Our one fertilized egg split and we were lucky enough to have identical twins!
Our OB recommended we go see a Maternal Fetal Medicine Specialist. He informed us about the different types of identical twins and it is something that he didn't know much about. We were able to get an appointment with Dr. Kirshon, a highly recommended MFMS in Houston in 2 weeks. At 9 weeks, we went for our first ultrasound with him. He confirmed what our OB suspected.... there was no membrane in between the two, therefore our little ones are a very rare type of identical twins, Monochorionic Monoamniotic .
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