u/Amber-ForDays

Ugh!

I am pregnant with twins and my doctors seem to just either be seriously inexperienced with twins or I'm just unlucky.

I had a Natera test scheduled for early this month. I got the order for the test and it stated Singleton pregnancy. I messaged and corrected.

Well, that came back at low fetal fraction and was inconclusive.

Then I had a scare, ended up in the ER, but all is fine. I had a follow up with a different doctor than the norm. He scheduled me a NIPS test which I got drawn at the hospital my appointment was in, and I was under the impression this wasn't Natera. I EVEN ASKED and was told it was provided by the hospital. I had to push my doctor to order me a new Natera draw because I was pushing about the twin pregnancy concerns.

I got the results today, and the test came up high risk for Triploidy - everything else inconclusive. Idk what that is so I'm panicking at work, ready to cry. They tell me they want me to follow up with a genetics counselor. I'm ready to cry, go to chatgpt to ask questions (and my chatgpt knows I'm pregnant with twins) and it literally mentioned to confirm the test was run for a twin pregnancy and not a Singleton. And my old Natera results apparently didn't run this test at all (I assume they can't with twins!)

I go to my Natera portal because I wanted to look at the old inconclusive results and I see the results for the new test? So it was run by Natera - cool, we just tell patients whatever now. I open it - THE TEST WAS RUN FOR A SINGLETON. I am literally furious over it. I call Natera to see if they can run as a twin - they need a change order from the doctor. 🙄🙄🙄🙄

I am just so livid over this. How many times during an appointment do I have to talk about my BABIES and TWINS for it to be handled correctly? Like we have full conversations about the two babies in my belly. Why are the tests getting ordered incorrectly?

Idk if this is normal for others but please tell me I'm not alone

Our Natera test was inconclusive due to low fetal fraction. My doctor decided to do a regular NIPS test (which wasn't discussed with me, I would have insisted on a Natera redraw if I knew what he was doing, but now he wants to see the results for the NIPS test). Anyway, I already have a pavilion reserved for our gender reveal next weekend and I can't cancel it. 😂 I said if we can't figure out these genders by next week, it'll be a gender guessing party instead.

So, we got an elective ultrasound to find out the genders yesterday and found out it's both! It was pretty clear on the screen but the pictures are less saturated than the screen was, or I'd share them. But this place was awesome - I paid for their standard 15 minute gender ultrasound, and this lady was in there for 45 minutes trying to figure out the gender of the babies because they were so uncooperative (of course they didn't have appointments after me, so we were lucky) 😂 I was so thankful.

We also got a recording of the heartbeats that my clinical setting for some reason doesn't do. So it was all around a great day.

I know it's still early so I'm trying to keep an open mind. I imagine it'll stay the same, but b/g twins is literally a dream come true, and I'm so excited right now!

I woke up at 2am last night and I thought I wet myself. I went to the bathroom and I have a lot of anxiety for this pregnancy but now that we're 13 weeks, I've been learning to calm down a bit. So a split second on the toilet while I peed I was like "what if it's blood? Oh shut up it's not blood, it's never blood."

Well, I got up to wipe and it was blood. Blood everywhere. This was more blood than I've ever even had during a period, so I assumed this was a miscarriage. I woke my husband up and said "I'm bleeding. I think I need to go to the ER"

So, we went. Got an ultrasound. Babies are looking beyond perfect. Good heartbeats, good sizing. No pooling of blood, so no obvious sign of where the blood came from. Everything was fine.

I was diagnosed with threatened miscarriage, told to follow up with my OB. Then I was discharged. I came home, the bleeding had slowed significantly (and I believe is basically done now, but I haven't been to the bathroom in a few hours). I went to bed and told my manager I'd be signing on late today.

Anyway. I'm obviously still shaken up. I'm wondering if anyone has any experiences with this? I am hoping it was just a spontaneous hematoma that passed quickly, or something off the wall. But I'm going to try and take it easy while I wait for my OB to get back to me.

Edit to add: pregnant with twins!

I have been pretty set on a side by side jogging stroller even before I got pregnant. I don't jog 😂 but I do I go trails a lot and I wanted to have the better wheels for those excursions. But I was talking to some people who have multiple kids and they preferred the front/back stroller, specifically for fitting in stores.

If you have a side by side, did you ever feel going through doors was difficult with the stroller? I think the benefit to this stroller is that both kids are close to me.

If you have a front/back stroller, did you ever wish you had the side by side?

Is anyone ridiculous enough to have both 😂 I am trying to get things second hand but the strollers aren't particularly working out for me (carseat compatibility mostly). I think these will end up needing to be new. Which I'll probably put on my registry and buy if they are left unbought.