Sizzle Muffin
04-09-2007, 04:38 PM
I had been doing the deed with my DH with condoms for a long time :teehee I hadnt been on birthcontrol for years as it makes me sick.
Anyway, we did the deed without a condom. Very stupid. It was the first and only time we didnt use one.
As the old saying goes, have unprotected sex, you can and will get pregnant...or maybe thats just common sense?
I was due to have my period soon, I was always irregular and never got my period on the same day, so I wasnt even sure I was late. I started eating lots and I felt so tired all the time. I just figured my period was due anytime as this typically happens during the days leading up to 'that time of the month'
Needless to say, my red friend never came. I told DH that i think I might be pregnant. He didn't say much and we didn't discuss it. Finally a few more days went by and I said that I think I really might be pregnant, maybe we should just by a HPT and know what was going on for sure.
My DH went to the drug store and returned an hour later. I went into the bathroom and followed the instructions.
My test came out + but one line was extremely faint. I wasnt entirely sure what this meant...a maybe perhaps? :rofl
I called my mother and asked her. She said if there is a + no matter how faint, then yes its a positive and I'm pregnant.
DH and I were excited, but very scared. We had not planned to get pregnant and for us having children either wasn't going to happen, or at least not for many years. I was 21 and he was 28
I went to a walk-in clinic to have my pregnancy confirmed and when it was confirmed I was given a list of maternity doctors accepting new patients.
I called many of them and settled on the one closest to home. I was told I couldn't have an appt until I was 3 months pregnant.
When 3 months pregnant hit, I went for my first appointment. Routine check up, lots of questions about family history. I ws measured, weighed etc. I came back a month later. Same thing. I got to listen to the heartbeat and I had gained 10lbs in one month.
My doctor didn't seem too worried and told me to just watch my junk food. I wasnt eating junk food :shrug
He asked us if we wanted to find out the gender of our baby and we said definitely. The doctor told us that they don't tell gender at the u/s place in our city but the next city over does and he will schedule us an appointment there for 20-22 weeks. He gave me a form to go to the Health Unit to have my prenatal blood work done. He asked me if I wanted to test for spinabifida and downs syndrome. He told me at my young age, its optional..that the risk is slim but its up to me, wont cost me any extra and they're going to stick me anyway (exact words)
SO, I said sure.
I was told I would have another appt to go over my blood test results.
I went in for my appointment and he told me my blood test results were normal, everything was looking good. We listened to the heartbeat, I was measured, weighed. Everything was fine, we were told and we had our gender determination ultrasound scheduled for 22 weeks
Dh and I were out of shock and finally accepting the fact that we were going to have a baby. We cleaned out the spare room and we painted it. Made a cute little nursery. We had been bought baby stuff for christmas and had put the furniture in. We even painted a blue sky on the ceiling. It was a small room, big enough for a crib and a change table, nothing extravagant but it would do.
That evening after my appointment, I got a phone call at home from the receptionist from the doctors office. She asked me if it was possible for me to go in for an u/s the following day in my city. I told her that I already had an u/s scheduled in the other city to find out gender. She said 'yes thats fine, we'll keep that appointment, Dr.Ketch just wants to get your dates down" (because of my irregular period, i just tossed a date out there :shrug)
I asked if there was anything wrong. She said no, we just want to get a correct due date.
So I said ok. DH wasnt able to miss any more work and I told him not to worry about it, this wasn't THE ultrasound..just a u/s for dating purposes and he was coming to the gender one in a couple weeks.
I asked my mother to go with me, we decided to make a day of it..go to the u/s, have some lunch etc.
Now, by this time..I was huge. Not huge, huge but I was showing and gaining weight fast. Everyone (including me) just thought it was because I was so tiny to begin with..I was just carrying upfront..
So we're in the waiting room of the u/s place and I have to pee soOOoOOo bad..so my mother is trying to make small talk, cracking a few jokes to get my mind off having to pee so bad. She says this (and i will never forget it) "Maybe there's two in there!!" I just laughed and said "there better not be" and that was it. It never stuck in my head and never crossed my mind.
I go into the u/s room alone. I'm laying there and it's taking forever. The woman isnt talking and I feel a bit odd laying on a table in a small dim room with this woman who isn't saying a word. I have never had an u/s so I have no idea how long they usually take. So i'm thinking this sucks..
Finally after such a long time..the tech stops. She turns her monitor around so I can see it and I just see two white blobs. I have never seen an ultrasound picture and I have no idea what I'm looking at. I guess I expected it to look exactly like a baby and I say "oh, doesn't really look like a baby" and Im pretty disappointed.
The tech says "thats because its two babies hun, these are their heads. you're pregnant with twins and that is why it is taking me so long..I have to photograph each baby and I just didnt want you to worry about how long it was taking and thats why your spinabifida test came back adnormal" (which I had no idea about, unbeknownst to me, my 'dating purposes' u/s was actually an emergency u/s)
Stop right there..I've just been hit by a bus. Twins, are you freaking kidding me? I don't even know what twins are (well..yes I do :teehee but you know..) I've never met a twin in my life..
She lets me go pee and I'm in total shock, I feel numb and I don't even know what to think. What am I supposed to think? It took me forever to get used to the idea of one baby..how do I even register that there is two in there..
I think a million things were racing through my head and I cant remember a single one of them.
I went back to the room, layed on the table and she asked me if my husband was here..I replied 'no, we thought this was for dating purposes so he was coming to the our other one in Vernon but my mom is here"
She asked me if I'd like to have her come into the room..I said sure, she then asks me if I'd like to tell her, or she could tell her if I wasn;t comfortable.
I'm crying at this point, I dont know if I was happy, sad or scared..maybe all 3. I tell the tech she can tell her.
My mom comes in. I'm wiping tears off my face and she looks really concerned. She asks me "are you ok, is everything ok?" I just nod and she looks scared. She sits down in the chair and the tech said "everything is fine" My mom's face softens a bit and she says "oh good, and thank you so much for letting me come in and see my grandchild"
The tech smiles and says "you mean grandchildren" ...my mom looks totally confused (remembering her face cracks me up, now) and says "what?" and the tech says "your daughter is having twins"
My mothers entire face drops in disbelief and she burst into tears and says "oh my god"
I was 18 1/2 weeks pregnant
After the ultrasound I called me DH at work. He didnt believe me. He thought I was joking and told me to stop it, it wasnt funny. I told him I was serious and he still told me he didnt believe me. He made me put my mother on the phone and she told him that yes it was true she saw the babies.
After all that, we were in shock for awhile. Our small place with the small bedroom only able to accomodate one baby wasnt big enough. We had to move.
I was given an OBGYN who specialized in multiple births. I saw my regular GP once a month and my OBGYN once a month making my appointments every 2 weeks. I had an ultrasound every 4 weeks and at 23 weeks we found out 100% one baby was a boy..the other looked to be a girl but she never cooperated enough to be certain.
My OBGYN took over my pregnancy exclusively at 24 weeks and I saw her every 2 weeks. Nearing the end of my pregnancy I developed PUPPPS and I was in a wheelchair because I could no longer walk much.
I was put on restricted movements. Not bedrest, but if I was going anywhere my walking had to be limited.
At 33 weeks after that u/s, the tech who did it couldnt get clear enough measurements because it was so squished in there. I was told I had to be admitted to the hospital for a possible IUGR and I was given an In-Hospital u/s which determined that an IUGR was not present. Both babies were growing well. I spent a week in the hospital due to my edema and was released at 34 weeks.
I was told it would be a miracle if I made it to 34 weeks. I was so huge. carrying all upfront. I surpassed 34 weeks and was taken off of restricted movements at 36 weeks. I was pretty miserable by this time and I wasnt progressing for labor. I was 90% effaced and a fingertip dilated. My OBGYN felt so awful for me that she told me to have lots of sex, clean my house and gave me the dates that she was in the hospital doing deliveries.
I begged her to just induce me, she said legally she cant unless there was a medical reason. She said that legally she never told me how to get labor going, but if I were to say have a lot of sex and orgasm, it could do me some good. :rofl
We had always planned for a vaginal delivery because both babies had been head down since 23 weeks and had not moved. We set up my inducement for 38 weeks.
At 37 1/2 weeks I went to the hospital with a headache. This was the golden ticket. My OBGYN was phoned and told I had the beginnings of preeclampsia, she immediately said we're inducing her tomorrow. I was 95% effaced and 1-2 cm dilated..
Finding out we were pregnant with twins was a complete shock. I have not one single factor for conceiving twins and no twins run in my family.
They do now :snicker
Anyway, we did the deed without a condom. Very stupid. It was the first and only time we didnt use one.
As the old saying goes, have unprotected sex, you can and will get pregnant...or maybe thats just common sense?
I was due to have my period soon, I was always irregular and never got my period on the same day, so I wasnt even sure I was late. I started eating lots and I felt so tired all the time. I just figured my period was due anytime as this typically happens during the days leading up to 'that time of the month'
Needless to say, my red friend never came. I told DH that i think I might be pregnant. He didn't say much and we didn't discuss it. Finally a few more days went by and I said that I think I really might be pregnant, maybe we should just by a HPT and know what was going on for sure.
My DH went to the drug store and returned an hour later. I went into the bathroom and followed the instructions.
My test came out + but one line was extremely faint. I wasnt entirely sure what this meant...a maybe perhaps? :rofl
I called my mother and asked her. She said if there is a + no matter how faint, then yes its a positive and I'm pregnant.
DH and I were excited, but very scared. We had not planned to get pregnant and for us having children either wasn't going to happen, or at least not for many years. I was 21 and he was 28
I went to a walk-in clinic to have my pregnancy confirmed and when it was confirmed I was given a list of maternity doctors accepting new patients.
I called many of them and settled on the one closest to home. I was told I couldn't have an appt until I was 3 months pregnant.
When 3 months pregnant hit, I went for my first appointment. Routine check up, lots of questions about family history. I ws measured, weighed etc. I came back a month later. Same thing. I got to listen to the heartbeat and I had gained 10lbs in one month.
My doctor didn't seem too worried and told me to just watch my junk food. I wasnt eating junk food :shrug
He asked us if we wanted to find out the gender of our baby and we said definitely. The doctor told us that they don't tell gender at the u/s place in our city but the next city over does and he will schedule us an appointment there for 20-22 weeks. He gave me a form to go to the Health Unit to have my prenatal blood work done. He asked me if I wanted to test for spinabifida and downs syndrome. He told me at my young age, its optional..that the risk is slim but its up to me, wont cost me any extra and they're going to stick me anyway (exact words)
SO, I said sure.
I was told I would have another appt to go over my blood test results.
I went in for my appointment and he told me my blood test results were normal, everything was looking good. We listened to the heartbeat, I was measured, weighed. Everything was fine, we were told and we had our gender determination ultrasound scheduled for 22 weeks
Dh and I were out of shock and finally accepting the fact that we were going to have a baby. We cleaned out the spare room and we painted it. Made a cute little nursery. We had been bought baby stuff for christmas and had put the furniture in. We even painted a blue sky on the ceiling. It was a small room, big enough for a crib and a change table, nothing extravagant but it would do.
That evening after my appointment, I got a phone call at home from the receptionist from the doctors office. She asked me if it was possible for me to go in for an u/s the following day in my city. I told her that I already had an u/s scheduled in the other city to find out gender. She said 'yes thats fine, we'll keep that appointment, Dr.Ketch just wants to get your dates down" (because of my irregular period, i just tossed a date out there :shrug)
I asked if there was anything wrong. She said no, we just want to get a correct due date.
So I said ok. DH wasnt able to miss any more work and I told him not to worry about it, this wasn't THE ultrasound..just a u/s for dating purposes and he was coming to the gender one in a couple weeks.
I asked my mother to go with me, we decided to make a day of it..go to the u/s, have some lunch etc.
Now, by this time..I was huge. Not huge, huge but I was showing and gaining weight fast. Everyone (including me) just thought it was because I was so tiny to begin with..I was just carrying upfront..
So we're in the waiting room of the u/s place and I have to pee soOOoOOo bad..so my mother is trying to make small talk, cracking a few jokes to get my mind off having to pee so bad. She says this (and i will never forget it) "Maybe there's two in there!!" I just laughed and said "there better not be" and that was it. It never stuck in my head and never crossed my mind.
I go into the u/s room alone. I'm laying there and it's taking forever. The woman isnt talking and I feel a bit odd laying on a table in a small dim room with this woman who isn't saying a word. I have never had an u/s so I have no idea how long they usually take. So i'm thinking this sucks..
Finally after such a long time..the tech stops. She turns her monitor around so I can see it and I just see two white blobs. I have never seen an ultrasound picture and I have no idea what I'm looking at. I guess I expected it to look exactly like a baby and I say "oh, doesn't really look like a baby" and Im pretty disappointed.
The tech says "thats because its two babies hun, these are their heads. you're pregnant with twins and that is why it is taking me so long..I have to photograph each baby and I just didnt want you to worry about how long it was taking and thats why your spinabifida test came back adnormal" (which I had no idea about, unbeknownst to me, my 'dating purposes' u/s was actually an emergency u/s)
Stop right there..I've just been hit by a bus. Twins, are you freaking kidding me? I don't even know what twins are (well..yes I do :teehee but you know..) I've never met a twin in my life..
She lets me go pee and I'm in total shock, I feel numb and I don't even know what to think. What am I supposed to think? It took me forever to get used to the idea of one baby..how do I even register that there is two in there..
I think a million things were racing through my head and I cant remember a single one of them.
I went back to the room, layed on the table and she asked me if my husband was here..I replied 'no, we thought this was for dating purposes so he was coming to the our other one in Vernon but my mom is here"
She asked me if I'd like to have her come into the room..I said sure, she then asks me if I'd like to tell her, or she could tell her if I wasn;t comfortable.
I'm crying at this point, I dont know if I was happy, sad or scared..maybe all 3. I tell the tech she can tell her.
My mom comes in. I'm wiping tears off my face and she looks really concerned. She asks me "are you ok, is everything ok?" I just nod and she looks scared. She sits down in the chair and the tech said "everything is fine" My mom's face softens a bit and she says "oh good, and thank you so much for letting me come in and see my grandchild"
The tech smiles and says "you mean grandchildren" ...my mom looks totally confused (remembering her face cracks me up, now) and says "what?" and the tech says "your daughter is having twins"
My mothers entire face drops in disbelief and she burst into tears and says "oh my god"
I was 18 1/2 weeks pregnant
After the ultrasound I called me DH at work. He didnt believe me. He thought I was joking and told me to stop it, it wasnt funny. I told him I was serious and he still told me he didnt believe me. He made me put my mother on the phone and she told him that yes it was true she saw the babies.
After all that, we were in shock for awhile. Our small place with the small bedroom only able to accomodate one baby wasnt big enough. We had to move.
I was given an OBGYN who specialized in multiple births. I saw my regular GP once a month and my OBGYN once a month making my appointments every 2 weeks. I had an ultrasound every 4 weeks and at 23 weeks we found out 100% one baby was a boy..the other looked to be a girl but she never cooperated enough to be certain.
My OBGYN took over my pregnancy exclusively at 24 weeks and I saw her every 2 weeks. Nearing the end of my pregnancy I developed PUPPPS and I was in a wheelchair because I could no longer walk much.
I was put on restricted movements. Not bedrest, but if I was going anywhere my walking had to be limited.
At 33 weeks after that u/s, the tech who did it couldnt get clear enough measurements because it was so squished in there. I was told I had to be admitted to the hospital for a possible IUGR and I was given an In-Hospital u/s which determined that an IUGR was not present. Both babies were growing well. I spent a week in the hospital due to my edema and was released at 34 weeks.
I was told it would be a miracle if I made it to 34 weeks. I was so huge. carrying all upfront. I surpassed 34 weeks and was taken off of restricted movements at 36 weeks. I was pretty miserable by this time and I wasnt progressing for labor. I was 90% effaced and a fingertip dilated. My OBGYN felt so awful for me that she told me to have lots of sex, clean my house and gave me the dates that she was in the hospital doing deliveries.
I begged her to just induce me, she said legally she cant unless there was a medical reason. She said that legally she never told me how to get labor going, but if I were to say have a lot of sex and orgasm, it could do me some good. :rofl
We had always planned for a vaginal delivery because both babies had been head down since 23 weeks and had not moved. We set up my inducement for 38 weeks.
At 37 1/2 weeks I went to the hospital with a headache. This was the golden ticket. My OBGYN was phoned and told I had the beginnings of preeclampsia, she immediately said we're inducing her tomorrow. I was 95% effaced and 1-2 cm dilated..
Finding out we were pregnant with twins was a complete shock. I have not one single factor for conceiving twins and no twins run in my family.
They do now :snicker