Babies?

Feb 16th, 2010
The doctor’s appointment wasn’t scheduled until February 16^th.  We went in for the appointment all ready with questions in hand, prepared and ready to go.  Mainly wanting to make sure our little baby was off to a good growing start.  The Doctor’s appointment started off great – the doctor came in and announced, ‘congratulations – you’re knocked-up!’  After the initial excitement and confirmation we got to the best part.  The ultra-sound.  Let me tell you – AMAZING. 

When the doctor came back to start the ultra-sound after Sarah had changed into that cute little paper sheet, he said – “so let’s see how many babies are in there” 

We should really make a side note in here.  Our doctor has 3 year old triplets.  And likes to constantly bring them up – and all the funny stories.  We though it was to make us feel more comfortable and the stories were pretty good.  Even at the beginning of the appointment, the Dr asked how many babies we were having – and of course we said ‘ONE’.  He asked if we have twins in the family, we said ‘NO.’  When questions were asked about the nausea and exhaustion, he said that babies are like parasites and take everything from you – even after they are born, so we better get used to it...especially if there is more than one.  He was always making comments about having multiples…  it was weird, but we liked him and just went with it.

When the first picture came up on the screen, we both smiled.  What a feeling – to see a picture of that little person growing inside.  And then, hold-on.  After a closer look at the monitor the little baby looked kind of funny – something wasn’t right.  It looked like it had a couple of big circular lumps.  At about the time when we were going to ask the Doctor why the baby looked funny – both he and the tech got very excited.  Before we knew what was happening, a specialist for the ultra-sound came in and the equipment was handed over to her.  We’re going to call this specialist Heather.  The doctor finally saw our concern (this all happened so fast) and said ‘guess what – you’re having twins!’  If you could only see Sarah’s eyes and her facial expression – absolutely PRICELESS.  Heather then proceeded to show us ‘Baby A’ and ‘Baby B’.  We were speechless.  Heather told Sarah it’s okay if you want to cry.  Sarah looked too shocked to cry and I finally held grabbed her hand. 

HOW DID THIS HAPPEN???

After listening to the heartbeats for BOTH babies and taking the measurements we asked for good pictures because no one would believe us.  You’ll have to check them out for yourself!

Main highlights and stats

*Both babies are doing just fine and look great.

*Need to eat a lot more protein 

(anyone want to come and take Sarah out to eat for some good red steak??)

*Going to get a lot more ultra-sounds because of twins (we like pictures)

*Due date: September 13 – 16, which was scheduled perfect for Sarah’s dad and the harvest season.  (but who knows now with twins how all that’ll effect everything)

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