How was your pregnancy?

[Supercalafragilistic]

From finding out you were pregnant with twins up until the end. Let us know all about it. :)

[~Katie~]

Hi! I am a newbie and I figured no better way to do an intro than to give you all the dirt right off the bat :) How I became a mother of twins.

Hmmm...where to start. I guess I will go back to the begining... **WARNING this may be a biggen ;) ***

Nate (the hubbster) and I had decided to get away from our older three kids for a couple of days. We live in Wisconsin and winter was knocking on our back door, narrowing the window for camping, so we had decided to take a weekend off and go to a small festival up north. Our friends play in a Grateful Dead cover band and they throw a killer party in the woods every year..:kumbaya .we were invited and decided it was the perfect getaway. Camping in the middle of the woods with nothing but the stars as light and crumpled leaves for toilet paper...ohh the fun.

Now I am not a birth control kinda gal..never has done me any good, so I pay close attention to my lady friend and even closer attention to when I ovulate. I knew I double o'd and knew I was a prime candidate for twins as my mother has a set. But....in the heat of the moment ...um yeah..we concieved two babies..

I couldnt confirm this right away obviously and I pushed the notion out of my head thinking I was just being parinoid.

As time went on I started getting terribly *awnry* (sp?) , for lack of a better term, and it didnt take long before the morning sickness hit...ohhh the morning sickness..thats when I decided to test. You see I thought either I was pregnant or dying..no other reason for feeling so awful:newmom

Sure enough it read pregnant as I was peeing on it..no need to wait for that positive result. It smacked me right in the face..lol..

Then there was that little voice in my head again *Its twins katie** like a faint little whisper ..and once again I shook it off as a parinod pregnant lady. After all I was pregnant with what I thought was my 4th baby..that would explain why I was already showing right. And the god awful ms was because of that too...riiiight

I made an appointment with a wonderful midwife we call Dr. Kate in these parts. She is sooo lovley and I was planning a naturalbirth for this baby and she was happy to oblige.
Kate got me in right away...the next week infact! I was very excited to see what she would think of my fast growing uterus as well. I couldnt even contain my thoughts from Nate anymore either and on our way to the appointment I slyly said "Babe wouldnt it be funny if she said we were having twins" ..Nate said "ha ha ha Baby!"

We arrived at her office and she got us right back to her room. Kate had a student with her that day and I was asked if ti was ok if the student could check me out first. I had no problem with that..so she came in. Right away I showed the student where I thought my uterus went to and pointed to a spot just below my navel. The student poked around and said she had felt it way below that point almost to my pelvic bone still. I knew she was wrong right away *hence student* but decided to just nod and say "really?" and wait untill Kate came in.

Not 5 minutes later Kater poked her head in and asked if we were ready for her. She must have seen the apprehensive look on my face because she came in and took over right away. I layed back for her to feel for my uterus and right away she had an odd look on her face. She looked at my chart and poked my belly again. "How far along did you say you thought you were"
"about 10 weeks" I replied. "Hmmmm" she says..

OK..I dont know about you but I never feel too comfortable when my doc says "Hmmm"..

"why dont we go back to my US room..I am feeling your uterus almost up to your navel" I immedialty shot a smirlk to the student who says "OHhhh..I guess you really know your body"
well duh...

I grabbed dh's hand and the hallway seemed to somehow get longer as we walked down it..where was this US room anyway! I was starting to panic a little..lol..I knew there was two in there..I knew it the whole time and they were about to confirm that. I was freaked and excited and terrified all at the same time. Could *I* take care of twins?? Was I mom enough for that...OMG we have to buy like a million diapers:shock

Then we were there...the US room. Dun dun dun!! It was time...was I going to laugh or cry when they told me. What if there were THREE!! Holy sh!t I cant do this..


**TO BE CONTINUED** gotta put the kids to bed. I must say though..it is nice to re~live it :)

[Leggs]

With both pregnancies, I knew as soon as it happened I guess I'm just in tuned with my body. Neither one was planned, but a blessing.

With the twins I had a feeling it was with twins. I was on medication that I couldn't be on pregnant so I went to the doctor and told her I was pregnant. This was a day after sex. She counted the days since my last period and said there was no way I was, I shouldn't even have been ovulating, but we did a test stat just in case. She called me and told me to stop my meds, I said "I bet it's twins" She said, "no way". I was shocked I was pregnant because we only said we wanted 1, so I didn't know what I was going to do. When I finally made my decision I was already 10 wks pregnant and couldn't fit in my jeans. I went to my OB appt. and they said I was either further along then we thought or it was twins. I started to cry when they did the u/s and I saw it on the screen, I thought he split the screen. After that I got in my car, called my DH hysterically crying. I was so scared!!!

At 25 weeks I didn't feel the boys moving and I felt cramping like I was getting my period. I called the dr and went in. Found out that I'm in labor and was sent to the hospital. After a few hours and many shots the labor stopped and I was put on bedrest. During that time I was in and out of the hospital going in and out of labor. I stayed 3.5 cm and 100% effaced for 7 weeks. I needed to be at least 32 weeks to delivery at my local hospital, otherwise the twins would be flown out to Baltimore to John Hopkins. I made it to 32 weeks and 1 day.

I had Matthew (baby A) naturally. When I delivered him, he pushed James back up and James' heart-rate dropped. I was rushed to the OR for an emergency C-Section. I delivered James 30 minutes later. I finally go to see them in the NICU 8 hours later when they stabalized. Matthew weighed 4lbs 4 oz and James weighed 4lbs 6oz. They stayed in the NICU for 1 month and I got to bring them home for the journey of my life.

As bad as the pregnancy was and all the stuff to stop labor. I have been truly blessed and would do it all over again!

[cfm911~TWINS!]

Hi, all! Another newbie, here!

My story is a long one. Scott and I were married in 1998 and started TTC immediately. We struggled with infertility for several years. I had lots of testing done, and underwent many fertility treatments. I finally conceived on my 3rd round of IUI with a triple dose of Pergonal, with a Profasi trigger. I was petrified that I was going to have a litter! At my 7 week ultrasound, we were quite happy to find one strong little heartbeat - although we had kinda gotten used to the idea that there could possibly be more than one. Emily Grace (Gracie) was born 1/21/02. In November of 2003, I had gastric bypass surgery. I lost 178 lbs! We knew we wanted to have another baby, but the docs warned to not TTC until 18 months after the surgery, to give my body to heal. Well, let's just say, we discovered the cause of my infertility. My weight. Once the pounds came off, I seemed to have no trouble conceiving. The first month we tried, I had an early miscarriage. The very next month, low and behold, BFP! As soon as we found out we were pregnant, upon breaking our news to Gracie, who was 3 at the time, she told us "Oh, I know, Mommy. And we are going to have 2 babies, a boy AND a girl!" We chuckled at our precocious little toddler, and the fact that she OBVISOUSLY watches too much Dora. Everything was different with this pregnancy. My betas were REALLY high....my boobs REALLY hurt, I had SERIOUS bladder control issues from the get-go....then there were the dreams. I dreamt that I was giving birth - to TWIN KITTENS!:shocked Then, came the dream the night before my first ultrasound - in the dream, the u/s tech was panicked, because the fetal heartrate was 350! That just could not be! There had to be something wrong! So, the tech ran and got the doctor. The doctor came in, looked at the screen, and said "Oh, I see. There are TWO heartbeats. That makes sense!" Let's just say I had a gut feeling it was twins. We went in for our u/s. The tech asked us - "What are we doing, checking gestational age?" I giggled, and said, "Yes, and I want to make sure there is only one in there!", to which he responded "why, do you think there might be more than one?". I told him it was just a gut feeling, I had a couple of dreams, told him about Gracie's "premonition", and that I had really high betas. He assured me that high betas mean absolutely nothing, and that he had "many" women that "thought" they were having twins, when in fact, it was extremely "rare". I layed back on the table, he put the wand to my abdomen, and said "There's two sacs, and there's two babies!". I didn't know whether to laugh, or to cry! I honestly felt like the most blessed person in the world!! Scott looked like someone had just kicked him in the nuts.:whaa.
The pregnancy was a breeze, unlike the last one, where I had severe gestational diabetes and had to take Insulin injections 5 times a day, check my blood sugar every 3 hours, had pre-eclampsia, and was induced early. At least, until 23 weeks - when I went into labor the first time. After a night in the hospital on Terbutaline injections, I was sent home on strict bedrest. Repeat, at 27 weeks. On the day that I hit 31 weeks, Gracie's 4th birthday, I overdid it. We had a party for her at Burger King. I was taking Terbutaline around the clock - but I continued to contract all day. After her party, I figured I had better go to L&D to get checked. I was admitted. My cervix was changing this time, and I was dilating. Then I was introduced to the wonderful world of Magnesium Sulfate. Day 3, contractions were coming hard and heavy, and I dilated to 5cm. Doc calls for an ambulance, and has me transferred to a level 3 NICU hospital in Columbus (90 mins away). They would have sent me in Medflight, but the weather was crappy. So, I get a bumpy ride in the back of an ambulance, with lights and sirens, all the way to Columbus. Once we get to the new hospital, they maxed me out on Mag, and pumped me full of Nubain, and I was feeling quite doped up and groovy. They were able to get me to stop dilating, and made me Mag toxic, but the contractions never stopped. After 3 more days in L&D, they sent me up to pasture, up in the high risk OB ward, where I would live for the next month. At 35 weeks exactly, I started dilating again, and because Dalton was breech, they did a c-section. Delaney Faith was born at 2:21pm 2/17/06 at 4 lbs, 9 oz 17.75" and Dalton Conner was born at 2:22pm, 5 lbs, 1 oz. Dalton did great and was able to come home with us 4 days later. Delaney had some breathing and feeding issues, and had to spend 10 days in the NICU. They are truly a blessing. Thanks for reading!