Today was a good day

We had the follow up scan today with the Fetal clinic instead of with the Maternity clinic.  The difference is that my current clinic deals with mothers that have health issues (ie., me and my heart), whereas the fetal clinic mainly deals with fetus' that have issues. 

The professor and radiologists were lovely people, totally put us at ease. The only weird thing is that they told us that they weren't going to check the babies growth as it has only been a week, and that will be done during my usual scan (happening next week).  Instead, they were mainly keen to check out the kidneys.  I thought the whole point was to check their growth but oh well.

And hurrah, both baby's kidneys are within normal range! Still prominent (i.e. on the big end of normal), but NORMAL. We still don't know why they are so prominent, and so we will keep checking this at every scan and probably once they are born. But in some cases it just corrects itself. So hopefully we fall into that category.

The best news of all though is that the professor is pretty certain that the babies don't have Twin to Twin Transfusion syndrome. Which I actually didn't think they had, as I've been researching it all week and the babies don't seem to have any of the symptoms except that T1 is smaller than T2.  What I am now worried about is IUGR, which the doctors haven't mentioned yet.  But I'll ask them about it at next scan and fingers crossed that T1 doesn't have it, and is just a slow bloomer.

So there we go. Feeling a bit better, but still a bit worried about T1.  I can't wait for next weeks scan and hopefully its just all good news.

The hardest thing about the past week is that I'm starting to really understand what being a mother is really like. And I so don't feel ready. It's just heart-wrenching to think that something could be wrong and that I can't really do anything to fix it.  So much fear and worry and all this weight of feeling responsible for two little people.

But all in all, today is a good day.  After our scan, we went to visit my m-i-l who just had hip surgery yesterday. And she is doing awesomely!  Wiggling her toes, been for a little walk/shuffle and looking great! She'll be up and running in no time :)

And then we drove to the bach at Tindalls. One of my fave places in the world. And ate take away thai in the sun and walked on the beach and lounged on the deck.  So yay for the positive stuff and hopefully it keeps on coming our way :)