6 weeks and 6 days

Yesterday was really bad. I woke up twice on Saturday night with big clots and what seemed (to me) like a lot of blood. I spent the day mostly on the couch, waiting for Monday.

This morning, I worked from home until it was time to go to the ultrasound. I was freaked. I felt sad because I should have been excited to see the results, but I was steeling myself for bad news. By the time we were in the u/s room, I was in despair. But Dr. H came in and could tell right away that something was wrong. I told him I've been bleeding. He was very reassuring and then got down to business.

The first thing he said was "well, you're still pregnant". And then pointed out the blood clot in my uterus that's causing the vaginal bleeding.

We've also got two (two!) egg sacs, but he was only able to see one clearly (because of my fibroids and the blood clot). The heartbeat on the one he could see was strong: 119 bpm.

But, since he couldn't really get a good look at the second egg sac, he said we could have one baby or we could have more. I asked him if there was a reason he didn't say "one or two" and he said there's a possibility that the second egg sac has two embryos, that the egg split in two after the transfer, resulting in identical twins. We were warned of this.

Anyway, we have another u/s scheduled for next Monday, when we'll know more about that second sac. In the meantime, I have to take it easy today and tomorrow (I'm working from home) and to stop with the baby aspirin. He also checked out the track marks on my butt and said I was actually doing well with the shots - not too lumpy.

Whew! As the Mr. says, two is better than none.