Last Wednesday I had a routine cervical scan where it was found that things were begining to look decididly dodgy! Not at the emergency levels yet but perhaps heading that way.
For the gynaecologicaly minded of you..the Drs look for your cervix, or neck of the womb, to be over 25mm long if it's under but still over 15mm then they just up their monitoring if it's under 1.5mm then they spring in to action! Mine was varying between 23mm (not too bad) and 13mm (action stations!) depending on how hard twin 1's head was pushing at the exit.
Anyway, after some discussion with the consultant who told me that I had a 50:50 chance of having the twins in the next 2 weeks, I was admitted to hospital there and then to have a cervical cerclage stitch put in that evening- How's that for NHS efficiency! . The riskiest bit is the operation it's self. It can irritate the uterus and send you in to premature labour or if the babies' membranes get in the way they can get caught on the needle and then the waters break.. Not good. However neither happened, I did have a few small contractions afterwards but they did go away..phew...
Anyway, apparently the procedure was straight forward and after the spinal anaesthetic I went up to the ward to recover for 2 nights. I have to hand it to the RVI I was looked after so well, all the ward staff from house keeping to midwives to the consultants all were fab! In addition the other girls on the ward were really nice too and those of you who know me know I love a good natter!
I was discharged on Friday to the care of my amazing house hubby Chris, full of progesterone (to stop premature labour) and steriod injections (to mature the babies lungs incase they do make an appearence very soon.
All in all, although it has been a scary week. I am feeling quite positive. The problem was caught at a much earlier stage than it was with Oliver and Matthew. While I did have the steriod shots to mature their lungs, I only had time for half the course and even that probably didn't have much time to work. Even though we aren't out of the woods yet, we are in a better place than last time. I also had a bit of a reaslisation during the scan: I have struggled for a long time not to blame myself for what happened to my boys. Why didn't I notice what was happening?, Why didn't I go to the hospital earlier? etc, etc,. Yet, when watching my cervix lenthen and shorten on the scan, I couldn't feel a thing. I could have been walking around like that with Matthew and Oliver for weeks and not have known.
On Saturday, when I had to go back in to hospital for the second steroid injection (huge needle in bum...lovely) The midwife was having trouble distinguishing between the 2 heartbeats- this is quite normal but they decided to do a scan to see the heart beats separately.
The consultant on call did the scan and it became obvious that the reason that they couldn't distinguish between the heartbeats was because the Beansters were one behind the other. At this point The Consultant said that the Holy Grail of 3D scanning was to get twins together facing the same way in a pic and that he couldn't resist having a go. Then he turned the machine on to posh 3d mode and look what we saw....
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