Triplets? Twins? Just one?

We went in for our first ultrasound a bit early because I was off to Baltimore for 4 days last week and our doc suggested I get checked out before the trip. I was so nervous beforehand even I could hardly eat (so you know it was bad). Within seconds Dr. Archer goes from "oh, look, there's the heartbeat" to "oh and there's another one" to "and oh my gosh, there's a third!" I'm like WHAT?! Incredulous because I was all set to get bad news about the ONE I thought I had. And now I had THREE?! WHAT? I start hyperventilating - Anna coaching me to breathe in, breathe out. She's already falling in love with the little embryos ("Oh, isn't that the cutest thing?") while my heart rate races and I cry out for a paper bag to breathe into.

Just 2 days prior I had to take a day off work because the walk I had taken the day before had felt like running a marathon. I was EXHAUSTED - my muscles absolutely spent. Monday morning I got in the shower before work, my legs shaking, and decided there was no way I could get into work that day. I spent the day on the couch waiting for the cramping and bleeding to start. It didn't. And the ultrasound 2 days later showed 3 beating hearts. No wonder I felt like I had run a marathon - I'm supporting 3 little beings building hearts and other organs.

The latest news:
Yesterday we went in for a 2nd ultrasound. It looks like we're losing one of the embryos (what we had come to know as "Baby B"). Its little heart is beating too slowly. And "Baby C" - the one the docs thought may have had an identical twin - has 2 fluid sacs sitting around really close to it. So, what's going to happen when the placenta grows out towards the sacs? Or when the baby does? Will the sacs get in the way and prevent growth? So - this leaves us Baby A for sure. The heart beat is incredible to hear - very fast and steady. And now the heart beats are more than just a dot on the screen. We can see the arm buds, a bit of the spine.. it's amazing.

We go in for the next appointment at the end of April and we'll see how poor little Babies B and C are doing. Please wish us all luck!