{"id":1072,"date":"2011-04-25T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-25T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gingiber.com\/im-back-with-a-big-announcement-2\/"},"modified":"2011-04-25T22:30:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-25T22:30:00","slug":"im-back-with-a-big-announcement-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/?p=1072","title":{"rendered":"I’m Back With a BIG Announcement!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We are pregnant! Baby Bloomfield is due late November, and we are ecstatic! I am almost 10 weeks along, and am quite ready to be out of the 1st trimester! I really was not all that sick when I was pregnant with Violet, so this has been a complete change!<\/p>\n

So, it has been an emotional 1st trimester with lots of twists and turns. We found out that we were pregnant on St. Patrick’s Day but felt like we should wait a while before telling people, even our family and friends. About 6 weeks into the pregnancy, I started bleeding, and feared the worst. I went to the hospital and had a 45 minute ultrasound. I waited hours for my Dr. to call us with the results, and was on pins and needles!<\/p>\n

That afternoon, my Dr. called and gave us a bombshell: I had a subchoriotic hemorrhage (blood clot) in my placenta which made me high risk. Then, the biggest bombshell of all: the doctor said that I was pregnant with identical twins! We were in shock! How on earth were we going to be able to handle 3 babies, all while Nathan was finishing graduate school? I have to work because I carry the insurance!<\/p>\n

A few days later, we got another bit of news: the twins I was carrying were “mono-amniotic” which meant that they were sharing the same sack and placenta. It was incredibly dangerous with a very low chance of survival for both twins. I wont go into the gory details, but if I could make it to 24 weeks, I would be put on bed rest or even made to stay in a hospital for the remainder of my pregnancy, and deliver at 34 weeks.<\/p>\n

All of this information was scary, and I honestly could not process it. I was in a state of shock and almost mourning. I really was struggling to keep it together, and have never cried like I did the day I was given this news. I spent all of my free time researching this type of twins. I joined online support groups. Researched means of financial support for our extensive and inevitable hospital stay. Looked into government programs, the works.<\/p>\n

A week later, we had another ultrasound to see if my pregnancy would be viable. Nathan came with me, because we were both so frightened and were praying for a miracle for our babies! Before the ultrasound tech even put the wand to my tummy, she revealed to us that she thought that there had been a HUGE mistake with my diagnosis, and believed that I had never been pregnant with twins in the first place!<\/b> Apparently after my diagnosis was made and sent to my Dr. the rest of the radiologists looked at my film, and no one else saw 2 babies, let alone mono-amniotic twins. <\/p>\n

All that worry over nothing!<\/p>\n

So here we are, with 1 healthy baby and a subchoriotic hemorrhage that is resolving! I think that what happened to us is a bit crazy, but everything happens for a reason, right? I keep telling myself that!<\/p>\n

Thanks for reading, friend! Hopefully I can get back into the blogging groove now that this is all out in the open!<\/p>\n

Stacie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We are pregnant! Baby Bloomfield is due late November, and we are ecstatic! I am almost 10 weeks along, and am quite ready to be out of the 1st trimester! I really was not all that sick when I was pregnant with Violet, so this has been a complete change! So, it has been an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,207,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baby","category-misdiagnosis","category-pregnancy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}