Nausea and Dopplers

Today I am 12w5d pregnant!  I'm so ecstatic that the official date for second trimester is approaching rapidly, even though I know it's silly to go by that date with twins.  Developmentally we're already there.  But it's nice to know that in just five more days everyone will count us as second tri!

My nausea has been easing up for a little over a week for the most part.  I was having to take a Zofran every evening in order to attempt to keep dinner down.  Right now it seems to be every third day for some reason.  Last week I didn't need it on Wednesday or Thursday, but needed it urgently Friday morning (thanks Andy!).  Then I didn't need it again until Monday, then not again until tonight.  I'm not complaining, the nausea is comforting in a strange way.  Since we're still early I'll take all the signs I can get that our little ones are growing strong.

Two weeks ago I finally talked Andy into letting me buy a fetal doppler.  Initially I had been convinced I wanted one, then when I found out we were having twins I was on the fence.  What if I couldn't find either heartbeat?  What if I could only find one?  I'm an anxious person in general but let's face it, pregnancy has the potential to send my anxiety into overdrive.  When we had a great OB visit at 10w I was relieved but then immediately freaked out when we were told we wouldn't be seen again for four weeks.  I know I was spoiled in the beginning with weekly ultrasounds but four weeks seemed like forever!  It's now 13 days until our next appointment and it still seems like an eternity away.  So I'm very thankful for our doppler.

It arrived in the mail last Wednesday and we attempted to use it but weren't too confident in our results.  We tried again Thursday morning and thought we heard them and again on Monday morning.  I was never 100% convinced we found them but my anxiety was still eased.  Tonight I decided to watch some YouTube videos showing how other people found the heartbeats.  I'm so glad I did!  We had been attempting to hear the heartbeats up by my belly button and I think we were picking up an artery on either side.  Based on the recommendations in the videos we tried about four inches lower and immediately found our baby on the left side!  It was definitely a different sound than we had heard previously and the beats were a lot faster.  Moving the wand over to the right we then were able to, we think, pick up our second baby's heartbeat.  Best sounds ever!  I think I'll be able to survive these next 13 days with at least a portion of my sanity intact now.