The Start of Week 10 and More Fun Pregnancy Sickness

Last night was the last progesterone injection for Kyra, which of courses she's happy about since both sides of her upper butt cheeks (gluteus maximus muscle) are visibly swollen from 10 weeks of this. Our clinic does 10 weeks of luteal support, a lot do 8, but research doesn't support one over the other; I guess there thinking is by week 10 the placenta is functioning enough to continue the pregnancy.

Kyra has been really sick this week, I think she's at a 1 for 3 average when it comes to keeping meals down. She's tried to wait until she's been up a while to have breakfast, that seems to have mixed results, other meals have been about as bland and as small as she wants with no improvement. She bought some vitamin B6 which is supposed to help with nausea and vomiting, I'm not sure if it's due to it's roll in carbohydrate and protein metabolism or if there's another action that causes it to help.

I continue to be nervous about genetic defects, which as the genetic counsellors told us, we have a 1.5% chance per fetus. That doesn't seem like a lot, but two days ago I transported a Trisomy 13 neonate which makes me worry since I see genetic defects like that on an almost weekly basis, one forgets there are babies born normally in this world. Trisomy 13 is a genetic disorder where the infant has 3 rather than 2 of the 13th chromosomes - they are severely mentally retarded, have scalp defects, cleft lip, extra digits, and organ or cardiac defects; they typically don't live long after birth. In my experience I've always seen the addition digits and cardiac defects.

We've been letting it slowly leak out that we're pregnant with triplets everyone is very excited about it, but I notice I do get a bit of a puzzled look. I've been explaining to people that yes, we did IVF, to me it doesn't carry a stigma, I guess to others it may.

As of today we're at 10 1/7 week... go babies go.