Our Monoamnitotic Story

When the tech gave us the print out of the ultrasound results I had noticed a comment at the bottom that said "yok sac present unable to visualize dividing membrane, fetus were very close together at present time." She did not say any thing to us about what that meant, she had scared us about a possible placenta previa. So when we got home we focused on that. When we saw our Dr. the next week he said it was normal at 9 weeks for placenta not to in its normal place yet, but he did mention it was concerning that there was no membrane seen in the yok sac. He said it was still too early, they would plan to do more frequent ultrasounds in hopes to find it. He did not go into much more detail other than it could be a problem in the future if they didn't find it. On July the 30th we were sent for the high resolution US, it was Randall, My mom and I we were very excited to see the babies. We were a day short of 13 weeks. We met the doctor who specializes in doing high risk US, he looked vigialantly for the membrane, but we still did not fully realize what it all meant. After looking for the membrane for almost an hour he broke the news to us of what exactly "no membrane meant." We were not prepared at all for what he had to say. I remember him stating "If you make it to 24 weeks they will probably want to put you in the hospital for monitoring." It was so surreal, I thought he was talking crazy. We walked into that office happy and excited. We walked out with our world rocked! You could tell we were all trying to process it in our own way, we could hardly say anything to each other. I had been up all night at work and had went straight to the appointment and was supposed to work that night again, but it was too much for me. I was so tired, I had a headach. I decided not to go to work and went home and went to sleep. When I woke up I felt like I was able to face what he told me, but I felt like I needed to know more. My sister-in-law had a co-worker who had previous experience with these types of prenancies and I spoke with her. She reassured me. After I spoke with her I headed to the internet. The doctor told me there was not much medical data out there for them to refer to, but I knew I had to look. That's when I found the monamniotic.org website. It was a lifesaver. I felt relieved to see that others had gone through what we had, I saw their beautiful children, I read the introduction, which explained a lot. I read as many of the posts that I could, including the loss and surviving twins forum. Which brought reality to the whole situation. Overall, I felt more reassured than when we had left the office. I was encouraged by what I read on the website.