Twins?! Wha!?

Well, it has taken until now (that the babies are five months old) for me to finally get up the nerve to finally write up my birth story. It did not end up as I had intended and I guess it has just taken me a little while to come to terms with how it all went down.

I will start with finding out that we were pregnant. About a month after returning home from our honeymoon to Cancun, I had a little hunch. My hunch was correct! After a minor freakout, a call to my friend Mandy, and about 7 BFPs later, it finally hit me that I was pregnant. Josh was right there beside of me for those few days of "that looks like a line? Is that a line? I think that's a line... is that a LINE!?" and while we were not trying NOT to get pregnant, we certainly didn't think that it would happen immediately after our honeymoon!

So I schedule an appointment to confirm the pregnancy. I go by myself that day, because I really just thought they would take a urine sample and say "yup, you're pregnant!" which I already knew. What I did not think would happen, is that they would ask to do a dating ultrasound that very day. "Well, alright!" I say.

The only thing that I have ever had an ultrasound for in the past was my gallbladder when I had it removed. Needless to say, it looked nothing like this:


When Shea said "oh my..do you see this? Do you know what that is?!" and I replied "ummm are there supposed to be 2?!" to which she replied "well...you're 4 weeks pregnant with twins!"

So after picking my jaw up off the floor, and heading out to my car, I realized that there was no way that I could make it all the way to the end of the day without telling Josh. I didn't want to call and tell him to come how now, or he'd think that something was wrong. So my option was to call and tell him. It went something like this:

Me: Are you driving?
Josh: No..why?
Me: Are you sitting down?
Josh: No, should I be
Me: Maybe so... it's twins.
(long silence)
Me: I know. I'm freaking out too. I can barely drive.
Josh: Are you joking?
Me: I am serious as a heart attack, I have the ultrasound right here to prove it.
(I hear Josh's women co-workers in the background wondering what is going on)
Josh: Ummmmmmm
Me: I know. Come home as soon as you can

So that was the beginning!
From that point forward, I lived for the two babies in my belly. Twins run rampant in my family, so I knew that it could happen, but really never expected it to!

Read on for more ultrasound photos and pregnancy stories and pics!