Triplets?! How'd That Happen?

So, I know there are lots of questions out there about how in the world Joseph and I ended up pregnant with triplets. So, that is where we will begin. I was once again on Clomid, 100 mg (lowest does is 50, so I wasn't on that much). The chances of having multiples does increase when on Clomid, for example, your chances of having twins is 1 in 10, or 10% (that's an important bit of information for later). So, no, we did not go back to REACH for fertility treatments, no alien abduction (though I feel as though I'm still having an out of body experience)...we did it the good ol' fashion way with a little help from Clomid.

So, here's bit more of how it all went down. I found out I was pregnant on October 7th, which was pretty early. From the beginning I had a hunch it was twins for several reasons...1-I ovulated hard (felt it really bad in other words), 2-I got a positive test so early (26th day of cycle) and 3-I broke out in hives, which is a sign of a multiples (now you see why the hives was such a big incident too, but thankfully they are gone!). I immediately called my genetic lady Jean, who is the best and scheduled the CVS test. Dr. Hilton wanted me to see a specific doctor this time, Dr. Stephenson, who just happened to specialize in twins (that would be hint number 4). Got the test scheduled no problem for the week of Thanksgiving when I'd be 10 weeks. Before going in for my test I had to go in to my regular dr. for a "viability scan." Doesn't that sound nice? All they were checking for was a heartbeat and how far along I was.

So...the scan was scheduled for Oct. 23rd because I was furloughed that day and so off I went to my appointment, alone. Joseph had to work, my mom was sick, but I was fine...I have had a lot of ultrasounds in my day! Go in and we start the scan and the sweet lady says to me, yup there is definitely two heart beats, at which time I clap and say I knew it! She continues looking around and then says "oh goodness". Now, this wasn't an excited oh goodness, this was a concerned oh goodness and I thought something was wrong. I asked her and she told me to just hold on one second, and then she said look here, there is a third heartbeat. So...that's how I found out about triplets, with a shocked little ultrasound tech all by myself. How do you call your husband and tell him it's triplets? Well me, I just cut to the chase...the nice nurse handed me my phone, went to get Dr. Hilton and I called Joseph who may have screamed, cried, yelled and who knows what else.

So, now for the logistics of how in the world it happened, beside by the grace of God of course. If you look at the picture from the post below you can see that there are two babies in one area (these are identical, known as A and B) and then there is C all by their self. Back to the numbers...chances of having twins, fraternal (not identical), on Clomid is 1 in 10, or 10%, which is what I had originally with A and C. However, A got a little funky on us and split into two, or identicals, A and B. The chances of that happening (one egg splitting) is 1 in 250 or 0.4%. So, I "dropped" two eggs, both were fertilized, and then one split, leaving us with triplets, two identicals and a fraternal. Any questions?!


Now for a few more pictures, one of each baby, from the test last week. Which, by the way took 3 hours and 10 minutes. Those little triplets are feisty and it took awhile to figure out the best way to get the samples. Anyway, enjoy these pictures. My next post will be who knows what, but I'd be more then happy to answer any and all questions you have, just leave a comment or email me. Triplets...wow!

Nichole, A, B and C


Baby A


Baby B


Baby C


Here's the latest, and probably last picture of all three together. They are getting too big for one shot. In this picture poor little baby C just gave us a butt shot, but it sure is a cute butt. They do focus more on the identicals because they are more "high risk" with some things that could happen, but we aren't going to think about that. Anyway...

Babies A, B and C