Since I never got around to posting after our 9w OB appt., I wanted to get it down for anyone who is curious and for my own remembering. I really like our OB, which was reassuring since I chose her pretty blindly based on her affiliation with Northwestern (where we'll deliver), the fact that she had an office on the N. Shore (so we don't have to go into the city for all our appts. though they have an office there too), and that she specializes in high risk pregnancies. She is part of a group of eight female OBs, The Women's Group of Northwestern, and we are encouraged to meet with others, though while she is often on call, there is always the possibility that one of the others will deliver the babies, which is fine.
She said that while I will be 35 when the babies come, since the eggs were harvested in November and would have been due in August, they are really only 34 11/12, so we couldn't have possibly eeked out anything closer to AMA without really being...
She said that she will not let me go past 39 weeks (1st week of Jan. 2012) and they are most likely to come between 34 and 37 weeks, so we are probably looking at December babies. How they are born will depend on the position of baby A. If he/she is head down, we can go for a vaginal birth, but otherwise a C-section is likely, which I almost couldn't care less about, since obviously our priority is to get them out safely.
We will see her next week for our 12 week and again at 16 and 20, but then will go to biweekly appts. We are opting for non-invasive genetic testing only, so I went downtown to the NW reproductive geneticist yesterday for my bloodwork and we go in on July 5th for the u/s and b/w results.
She will put me on lockdown at 24 weeks, unless I am "rock solid"... No more sex, exercise, or air travel... This also happens to be my 35th birthday (9/24). We are still discussing whether it's completely insane to consider going to Italy for our 5th anniversary/my 35th b-day/our babymoon trip in early September, and will likely take it up with her at our next appt. before we book anything. We are discussing going back to Bermuda for a closer trip and are entertaining other ideas, so feel free to share any you may have. :)
She diligently went through what I should and shouldn't be eating, which of course I'm already up on. She finished with that I should be eating anything allowed now that doesn't make me sick.
She is keeping me on baby aspirin until 20 wks., which will follow my weaning from my estrogen at 13 and progesterone at 15.
She wants to see me gaining ~40lbs. w/twins.
On a random side note, she mentioned that I was lucky to be so tall and long torsoed w/twins, hopefully it will give them more room.
She encouraged us to start looking into prenatal classes at NW, which of course I already did when we were pg in December, but now we'll be taking the ones for multiples. :)
She said that while I will be 35 when the babies come, since the eggs were harvested in November and would have been due in August, they are really only 34 11/12, so we couldn't have possibly eeked out anything closer to AMA without really being...
She said that she will not let me go past 39 weeks (1st week of Jan. 2012) and they are most likely to come between 34 and 37 weeks, so we are probably looking at December babies. How they are born will depend on the position of baby A. If he/she is head down, we can go for a vaginal birth, but otherwise a C-section is likely, which I almost couldn't care less about, since obviously our priority is to get them out safely.
We will see her next week for our 12 week and again at 16 and 20, but then will go to biweekly appts. We are opting for non-invasive genetic testing only, so I went downtown to the NW reproductive geneticist yesterday for my bloodwork and we go in on July 5th for the u/s and b/w results.
She will put me on lockdown at 24 weeks, unless I am "rock solid"... No more sex, exercise, or air travel... This also happens to be my 35th birthday (9/24). We are still discussing whether it's completely insane to consider going to Italy for our 5th anniversary/my 35th b-day/our babymoon trip in early September, and will likely take it up with her at our next appt. before we book anything. We are discussing going back to Bermuda for a closer trip and are entertaining other ideas, so feel free to share any you may have. :)
She diligently went through what I should and shouldn't be eating, which of course I'm already up on. She finished with that I should be eating anything allowed now that doesn't make me sick.
She is keeping me on baby aspirin until 20 wks., which will follow my weaning from my estrogen at 13 and progesterone at 15.
She wants to see me gaining ~40lbs. w/twins.
On a random side note, she mentioned that I was lucky to be so tall and long torsoed w/twins, hopefully it will give them more room.
She encouraged us to start looking into prenatal classes at NW, which of course I already did when we were pg in December, but now we'll be taking the ones for multiples. :)
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