Being as I am starting this blog when my children are a month old, I obviously didn't blog during my entire pregnancy! So I guess I will start my blog all about my pregnancy... that which pregnancy brain allows me to remember!
Being a mom was something that I had always wanted to be. After Travis and I were married we were open to welcoming a child into our lives whenever God so granted. After almost a year of trying, I had decided that I wasn't going to concentrate so much on the fact that I wasn't pregnant as all of the pregnant people in the world were beginning to piss me off! I decided to concentrate on losing weight and training to run in the Oktoberfest Maple Leaf Races. I began running every lunch hour and watching what I was eating. I had lost eight pounds in two weeks! Then I noticed that I was exhausted. My head would nod at my desk and I wasn't increasing the distance that I was able to run. Then I noticed that when I would get mad... I would cry and couldn't stop the tears.... THEN, I was late.
My coworker's menstrual cycle had adapted to be on the same schedule as mine... as I was late, so was she. She hounded me for days to take a pregnancy test. I said that I wasn't technically late yet and often my schedule would flip slightly and I didn't think I should take one yet.
That Saturday, May 25, 2013 I woke in the night. I decided to pee on the stick... it was positive... and expired!
I laid in bed freaking out! Could an expired test give a false positive???
When Travis and I got out of bed to start the day, I went right to the bathroom and retested... Positive!
That day we went up to where Travis hunts in Dodge and our friend, who was newly pregnant, kept telling us that we need to get pregnant so she had someone to be pregnant with. We had a hard time containing our excitement!
The weekend of Father's day, and our anniversary, we told our families that we were expecting the fourth grandchild for each of our parents. They were also very excited. We gave Travis' parents a frame with a reserved sign that matched the rest of the family frames that we had given them for Christmas. My parent's we gave them the Little Critter books "Just me and my grandpa" and "Just me and my Grandma". These were popular books in my childhood home. We first told my nieces and nephew by having them play hangman and spelling out "we are having a baby". Olivia figured it out right away... Clayton thought we were selling a baby.... Leah had the best expression as she looked at me, then my stomach, then me, then my stomach. Later I guess she told her older sister, "LIV! We are going to be Aunts!"
At our 12 week appointment, we heard a heartbeat. My midwife, Angie Connely thought that I felt slightly bigger than 12 weeks but that we would wait until our ultrasound to determine if the due date was off. She then recommended waiting until 19 weeks to have our ultrasound as the pictures were way cooler. On our way back to work I asked Travis, "do you think I feel further along than 12 weeks because there are two babies in there?" He said, "Let's not count our chickens before they are hatched." I said, "OK" and that was all there was to that. This was also the week that I had given up on wearing normal clothes and broke into the tote of maternity clothes that my sister in law had passed on to me.
On September 5, 2013 we went in for our ultrasound. We were so excited to see our little miracle! The tech squirted the gel on my belly and moved the wand around, I assumed that she was spreading the gel. She then proceeded to say, "There's a head..." Travis and I thought that was pretty neat! Then she continued... "There's the other head..." I am pretty sure we had to pick our jaws up off the floor to say "Um, what?" She stopped and looked at us and said, "you didn't know you were having twins?" UM NO! Then she turned the lights on and said "I will be right back!" Travis was jumping up and down and high fiving me! I began to worry that something was wrong. When the tech came back in the room I immediately asked why she left. She explained that there needs to be an hour per baby and she needed to see how much time was available. Not enough for two babies so we had to come back the next week to finish. We went back to the exam room and waited patiently for my midwife. We then heard her in the hallway... "TWINS!?" She burst into the room, "TWINS!! OH MY GOSH! YOU ARE HAVING TWINS!" She was just as excited as we were! She then told us that we would no longer be able to see her and that we would need to pick an OB. As sad as that was at the time, it all worked out in the end! ;)
I think that is it for now... I wish I would have begun this prior to delivery... now I have babies to attend to! It will give me time to remember other details!
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