First, we discussed the possibility of adding another child to the family with our older daughters before we started trying. This was important to us because of the age difference we would be facing from Madison to the baby.. not to mention Kendal and the baby. Of course they were both on board and super excited to have a new sibling. Kendal the ever smarty pants made the wise suggestion that we should have twins that way there would be one baby for each of them.
Around mid January (several days too early) I decided to take a pregnancy test and quite quickly the test was positive and several after that. I was a bit shocked given how early I was testing and quickly and clearly these tests were positive. I waited several days before telling my husband (due to other issues in the past) once I was comfortable with the fact that I was pregnant I told him. Not to mention the symptoms started to come on strong. Several of the symptoms I was experiencing were very severe unlike any symptoms I had every experienced with Kendal or Madison. We immediately thought it must be a boy or perhaps more than one. The second thought was a bit of a stretch given twins do not run in my family.
Those weeks before my first ultrasound at 6 weeks were filled with new symptom after to new symptom. I was feeling like crap to say the least so the doctor visit and ultrasound couldn't come soon enough. We had told a handful of people about the pregnancy but most of our family was unaware. The day finally came and while waiting for the tech to come in my husband joked about the possibility of twins; to which I politely told him he was crazy. When the tech came in and started the ultrasound my husband again joked about only seeing one heart beat. As soon as she started I saw the two sacs (or black "dots") and I knew it was more than one. She looked for a minute and asked my husband if he was kidding... because it was twins. We just looked at each other, he had a look of you have got to be kidding me on his face and I couldn't stop laughing. We heard both heartbeats and were left to get dressed and then wait to see the doctor. We just sat there and held our ultrasound photo in pure disbelief that we were having twins.
After meeting with the doctor and hearing all of the possible reasons I was pregnant with twins we left still in complete shock. We sat in the car together before each going on about our day - we decided now was the time to call all of those family members to let them in on two big pieces of news. Person after person we said the same thing "we have some great news... we are pregnant" after all the excitement and congrats we added "and its twins" each time the statement was the same but it felt like we were saying it for the first time.
The next few days were crazy, a little scary, and a lot happy. We told the kids and promptly blamed Kendal of being the reason we were having twins... All kidding aside though we were all so very happy to be adding the two babies (one for each of them) to the family. I still get butterflies in my stomach and smile from ear to ear remembering that day. (Birth Story here)
Now those two black spots on the ultrasound screen are 17 month old beautiful girls rocking our world every day. And Kendal held up her end of the deal... one for each of them.
And there they are... Baby A and Baby B - 6 weeks brand new
The big day 34 weeks 6 days!
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