2/17/2014


Overall, I had a great pregnancy.  The morning sickness wasn't that bad.  It was mainly set off by smells... my husband's gum, the neighbors grill, etc.  Being in my first trimester, with morning sickness, over the summer was rough.  I love grilled food and I couldn't even smell it without getting sick!


We had an ultrasound every month and I loved being able to see the babies.  See that they were growing.  See their hearts beat.  See them move.  I was always so paranoid that something was going to happen.  Like maybe I slept on my back too long and they didn't get air... I know I worry too much!  I also believe that if we were to ever have a singleton baby that I would not be able to survive seeing them once!


Throughout these ultrasounds, I was pretty sure that I was having a boy and a girl.  I thought that Baby B was too fine featured to be a boy and that Baby A was so big that he had to be a boy.  He seemed to have the cutest little Buddha belly!  Towards the end, I had said that I was pretty sure it was two boys.  The chance that it could be two girls terrified Travis, and myself actually.  We couldn't imagine two 13 year old girls that our future could possibly hold for us.  Honestly, the thought of having three of Travis running around our house kind of scares me too!


The pregnancy went fast, until the last month.  Then it felt like it took forever!  I was measuring full term so of course I got a lot of comments at work "STILL HERE!?!"  YES!  I was tired.  I was crabby.  People kept telling me to sleep while I could.  Not sure how anyone sleeps in their third trimester!  I was up to pee and having Braxton hicks.   I guess it was preparing me for what was to come!

The last month I had weekly appointments with ultrsounds that no longer measured growth but instead fluid levels and checked for primary functions like practice breathing.  On January 6, 2014 (36 weeks 5 days) I went in for my appointment.  My blood pressure was high so they tested my protein level. ... also high.  My doctor was gone for this appointment so I was seeing the specialist.  He told me that they don't like to induce prior to 37 weeks but that high blood pressure can increase the chance of stillbirth with twins.  They sent me to the lab to test for preeclampsia.  He said if it was positive I was back that night.  If it wasn't I was back at 7:30 the next morning.

Travis had the day off and we decided it was best that I take the rest of the day off too.  We went and got a few groceries and then spent the afternoon at home.   Honestly I was so nervous.  I didn't sleep all night.  I was up early.  Showered.  Put French braids in my hair and got ready to go have some babies!  I honestly don't remember much about our final moments at home!  We took a few pictures and left thinking in a few hours we would double the size of our family!

Where to start!?!

Recently I read a friend's blog and thought that I could do that!  So here goes!


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!