Baby Buswell

Due to make his/her debut May 30, 2009. Congratulations Chad & Kristi!! I've been wanting to write this blog for a few weeks now, but this little baby is already causing major drama. Kristi was first told at 5 weeks that there was a possibility her pregnancy was nonviable. There was no baby or heartbeat. Just an empty sac. So Chad and Kristi did what any couple would do, they prepared theirself for the worst. Kristi returned for another ultrasound at 6 weeks hoping to see at least a baby and a flicker of the heartbeat. Imagine their surprise when the ultrasound technician announced she could see not one, but two heartbeats flickering away on the computer screen. Kristi's first reaction was "two what?" Which appeared to be in one sac making them identical twins. During all this craziness, Kristi switched doctors. That's a whole other blog! Her new doctor wanted another ultrasound at 8 weeks to confirm the twins. It was then they were only able to see one baby. Her doctor thought maybe the other twin was hiding behind the other. So if this hasn't been crazy enough, Kristi's new doctor asked her to come back at 11 weeks. Not for an ultrasound, she's had way too many already, but so they can listen with the doppler to see how many heartbeats there actually are. Yes Kristi it's called a doppler, not a dinglehopper! So at 11 weeks, it was confirmed there was only one healthy baby with a very strong heartbeat. All is good. We are happy and blessed to have at least one baby Buswell on the way.

Now where did that other twin go? Or was there ever one to begin with? Only God knows for sure. My theory is Kristi had what they call The Vanishing Twin Syndrome. This is the result of a miscarriage of one of the twins that either absorbs back into the other twin, or back into the placenta. Kristi's doctor mentioned the second heartbeat could have been a mirror-image bouncing back off the other, but I personally haven't been able to find much research on this.

Here is a picture of Kristi and me on her wedding day....