My Twins Story

Ok, reading about babies and pregnancy has made me want to write about my own twin experience; plus, I haven't even started my girls baby book so I can cut and paste this into a digital scrapbook for them (bad I know). So, this will be split into 2 or 3 posts; here it goes.

Our son Bo turned 8 months old the end of March and I had suspected that I was pregnant so took a pregnancy test....negative. Ok, sad I was but it was ok, after all I had an 8 month old.

The feeling that I was pregnant never left me, so here comes Monday, April 9, 2007 and I'm at the pediatrician's office with Bo whose had a hard cough since November on and off and nothing was working to get rid of it so they go to x-ray him and I just couldn't let myself go in there with him; I just had that gut feeling I was prego. We left there and went straight to get Bo's medicine and a prego test for me. It barely got to the line and it was turning positive. Bo and I told Daddy by writing him a card out "from Bo" saying he was going to be a big brother.

That Tuesday I called the doctor and they got me in right away because I had no idea how far along I could possibly be 6 weeks, 10 weeks, 12 weeks no idea (hadn't gotten my "flo" back b/c of nursing). I had been having to pump more often for Bo (pumping and nursing for Bo) just to get enough for him and take Fenugreek to increase my supply so that made me think I was further along in my pregnancy. Anyways we get in there, yes I'm pregnant, but the ultrasound shows 4 weeks and a few days... we see a sac and that's it, no heartbeat..no pole. they prepared me for the possibility of a miscarriage since I had thought I was a lot further along than that and took my blood, the paperwork I left there with said "threatened spontaneous abortion" cruel I thought to have on my sheet for me to see. My HCG was 5400 or 5463 somewhere along in there, I'll have to go back and look at my scribbling's and my progesterone was low so I took a little pink round pill for the first trimester.

My hubby, Bo, and I went straight to get a t-shirt made that said in big blue letters "BIG BROTHER" and just went around to every ones houses we knew and took his sweater off to reveal the t-shirt and just waited for responses (it was fun).

That Thursday went back for another blood check, we wanted the numbers to double. They didn't double... they only went up 61%. The numbers at the least need to go up 60% to ensure viable pregnancy. Wait and see..... 6 week appointment, we go in we see the fetal pole and a heartbeat, yea!!! The doctor did make the comment "yep, there's just one in there" as though we had been suspecting two... no. (I had no idea my "numbers" were actually high) We are scheduled for a regular 8 week prenatal appointment, all is good.....