20 wks: funneling cervix and bed rest

We had our anatomy scan today and thankfully the babies both look great.  Baby girl weighs 11 oz and is on track and baby boy is still measuring ahead and weighs 12 oz.  We got our quad screen results, which were also normal.  But unfortunately, my cervix is funneling (which means the inside is open in the shape of a "V"), though it is still closed.  It is borderline short (2.5cm) and soft.  The OB said there isn't much they can do for this at this point, other than put me on bed rest and wait to see what happens, which is obviously not very comforting.  If my cervix starts to open, they could do a cerclage (where they stitch your cervix closed), but until that happens, they wouldn't do it yet.

This comes after an unplanned trip to the OB last Friday after I passed some abnormal discharge. which appeared to be my mucus plug.  I called and they had me come in and after finding the babies HBs on the doppler and checking that my cervix was closed, they sent me on my way.

So I finally finished my design class last week (it was disappointing, but I got an A) and we had a nice trip to NYC and the Hamptons (despite crazy delays on both ends).  So I'll be horizontal for the foreseeable future and praying to keep these babies cooking for as long as possible.  We have a long way to go...

First tri screening and almost 13 weeks!

So I've never claimed to be a pro at this blogging thing, but lately I've had trouble commenting on other people's blogs (no I'm not ignoring you my dear readers), so I tried making my blog public again in hopes of that fixing the problem.  It didn't.  I'm going to try some other things, but let me know if you have any ideas.  Thanks.

We had our NT scan yesterday and everything went perfectly.  Sadly it was over too quickly and we didn't get any good pictures.  We did get a great look at them and measurements on the neck fluid on both babies and confirmed that they both have nasal bones.  They also did a quick anatomy scan and the brain, heart, stomach, bladder, etc. all looked good on both babies.  They both have HBs in the 160s and are on track growth wise, though the one they called baby B (DH thinks it's the one the OB calls baby A) is now a few days behind.

The u/s results along with the b/w we had done two weeks ago led to an awesome first trimester screen report.  For Down Syndrome:  The 1st tri risk is 1 in 308, but my risk pre-screening was 1 in 289.  After the screening, the risk dropped to 1 in 5,761.  For Trisomy 18/13: The 1st tri risk is 1 in 150, but my risk pre-screening was 1 in 531.  After the screening, the risk dropped to 1 in > 10,000 (the highest category).  So for both, my risk drops from that of a 35 year old (at EDD) to that of a 20 year old.  Take that AMA! ;)  There are obviously many other things that they don't test for and we are always conscious of the fact that my mother was just 20 when she conceived my eldest sister who has a random congenital gene deletion syndrome.

We were very happy with the results and celebrated by shopping for the perfect nursery chair at one of my favorite neighborhood furniture stores in the city .  The search continues, but I'm hoping that we've made some headway.  We had a great dinner in the city, something we still don't do often enough, and took the babies to their first rock concert.  U2 puts on an amazing show, but I think we may be done with those for awhile.  When it first started, I could feel my whole body vibrating.  I hope the babies aren't upset that we kept them up so late and probably made them wonder what the hell was going on. ;)

I don't think I mentioned before that the OB has given us the green light to go abroad for a vaca in September.  She thinks it's a great idea, but obviously we'd need to have trip insurance and be flexible.  I am still deciding where I think we should go and what we should do as I've gotten pretty worn out the last several days when we try to do a lot of walking in the heat.