Hoping for a missed twin

The eight week ultrasound showed two yolk sacs, but only one baby. The OB was pretty nonchalant about it. “Oh yeah, we call that a Vanishing Twin.” It’s taken a bit for me to wrap my head around it— sounds like there were probably two but one wasn’t viable and died. Then my body broke it down and reabsorbed it.

It sounds so macabre, but she was so chill about it that I feel a bit silly for being sad about it. I suppose it would still be a miscarriage though.

But now I’m googling to find the chances that there really are two and we just missed one on the ultrasound. I think I am hoping for that, even though it’s unlikely. It’s hard to think that death has already affected my baby in the womb— where life is supposed to start. Thanks for reading.