A Little History...

This may be redundent to some of you but I wanted to bring everyone up to speed so we are all on the same page. I will give a brief history to catch you all up...
As most of you know, Kevin and I have struggled with fertility for quite a few years now. After a long process and some tough times we ventured into the world of intra-uterine insemination last August. It worked! We were so excited. On one of our first ultrasounds they told us we were having twins. Even better! We would take what we could get and we were blessed to be getting two! A week later they found a third baby. A little unnerving, but no complaints from us! The third baby never really developed and was lost. We were sad but hey, we still had two! During subsequent ultrasound the twins took some great pictures and were promptly named "the chicken" and "the bean". Trust me, it is exactly what they looked like. Around our 9 week ultrasound we lost the bean. It seemed to be the case of the "vanishing twin" we just happened to be keeping a very close eye. I had been having ultrasounds at a minimum of once a week due to some bleeding that had been occuring since week 6.
We were saddened by the loss of "the bean" but we were still pregnant and grateful for that. I was on bedrest for about 3 weeks after the loss of "the bean" due to some bleeding. This condition eventually resolved and the bleeding became intermittent till 16 weeks. At this point the bleeding subsided and has not returned.
At 18 weeks we saw a perinatologist and had our ultrasound for the anatomical screening.
"The chicken" looked great! We found out it was a girl! You are never 100% sure but we are excited either way. Everything looked fine, she measured a few days small but looks healthy and is well within normal range for everything they measured. It was a great way to start that week. I also graduated from nursing school that week! It was a busy week but truly one of my best.