We are home!!

September 14, 2007
So I was supposed to be in the hospital for 48 hours, but there was a positive flow difference in Aiden's blood flow in his umbilical cord. We had out follow up ultra sound today, and Dr. Livingston was happy with the positive change. I had a steroid shot yesterday and there was a nurse named Bob who was wonderful! I HATE needles, and when he gave me my shot it was in my left hip, he pinched me really hard and said okay I am going to pinch you a little your going to feel a sting, and I will wiggle the sting out, then you tell me when your ready for the shot. I said go ahead, and he let go and said good I already gave it to you. LOL. Food believe it or not is not that bad in the hospital and since I was on the Labor and Delivery ward, not only did I get to order from the regular menu, but they give you extras to choose from in addition! Today getting discharged took forever! I was pretty upset by it, but hey I am home, the babies are doing well and I am happy! We have another ultra sound tomorrow to make sure that he is still improving. I will let everyone know whats going on, now I am going to play some WOW and eat some fattening foods for my babies!

Hospital for 48 hours

September 13, 2007
They are admitting me for 48 hours at UC Hospital. They are going to administer steroids for the babies lungs in case of early delivery. I should have my cell on me, so you can get a hold of me that way. We are doing the laser surgery on Monday. There was no change in Aiden's (our donor baby) blood flow in the umbilical cord, so they are concerned about that. They will re evaluate me tomorrow and as well on Saturday to see if there is any change. I will get you guys updates as soon as I can.

Amniotic Reduction

September 12, 2007. We had our amnio reduction procedure today. They took off 1 and 1/3 liters of fluid from Nathaniel sac. I posted pictures of my belly I am literally half my size now after all that extra fluid is gone. All of the pressure that I was feeling on my cervix and where my stomach was so tight is because of all the exta fluid Nathaniel had around him. We have another ultra sound tomorrow to make sure that they are both producing fluid now not just one. I will keep everyone updated.

Fetal Care Center

We went and saw Dr. Livingston today at the Fetal Care Center in Cincinnati Children's Hospital. We found out that we are Stage 3A. There are 5 stages 1, 2 3 ab&c, 4 and 5. Tomorrow we are going to go ahead and do the amniotic reduction procedure. The babies hearts looked great, Nathaniel's (our recipient baby) heart wall was a little thicker than normal but not too much. But other than that the only concern they had was with Aiden (our donor baby) his end dialostic flow to the umbilical cord was abnormal. We will have the procedure tomorrow afternoon, and then an ultrasound Thursday, and then another echo on Monday and assess what else needs to be done from there. Thank you for all the prayers and thoughts.

Fetal MRI and such

September 7, 2007, we went at 8:30am this morning for a fetal MRI. It it took 45 min since the babies were moving so much. The big appointment is going to be sometime next week, I believe that it is going to be on Tuesday. Not much to report until they talk to us next week.

Roller coaster of a day

September 5, 2007 was one of the worst days in our pregnancy so far. This is my post from that day from my other blog.

Today we had our ultra sound and doctors appointment. I am 23 weeks and 5 days. The twins were diagnosed with TTTS Twin to Twin Transfusion Syndrome. www.tttsfoundation.org This is a great website that can explain it better than I can. But all in all, Nathaniel whom is on my left is larger then Aiden on my right. Nathaniel weighs 1lb 6oz, and Aiden only weighs 1lb. That doesn't seem like a huge difference but it is. Aiden only ha about 1/4 of the amniotic fluid and Nathaniel has the other 3/4. This is what we had been praying wouldn't happen. I am waiting to hear from the ultra sound techs to find out when we will go to the specialist at Children's Hospital. There I will have a full day of tests that will include an extensive ultra sound, heart echo's, possible MRI, and then we will meet with the board of Doctors and find out what all of our possible options are. Friday will be my last day at work, he no longer wants me to work. I am not on bed rest yet, but they will talk about those options as well during our visit to Children's.

It's a boy! X's 2!!!!

July 7, 2007 was a very interesting day for us! This was the first ultra sound that Adam was able to go to, and this was also the first ultra sound they were going to attempt to find out the sex of the Wilkinson twins. They said with twins that only being 15 a/2 weeks along we might not be able to find out if they were boys, girls, or one of each. But sure enough our BOYS are not shy! Kyle and I were not the only ones that were totally excited! Adam was totally relieved to find out that there would not be two little girls ruining his little world.

Now the important thing we needed to do was think of names for baby a and baby b. The cool thing with having both of them being the same sex, Kyle and I could each pick and agree on a name. After 3 days, low and behold Aiden Christopher(baby b) and Nathaniel (Nate, baby a) Jacob Wilkinson have been named!