Babies are napping - a very sweet time of day for me. They say that distance makes the heart grow fonder. I feel that way about their naptime. It makes me sad to put them down - I miss them! - but it is also good for my sanity. I miss them enough that when they wake up, I'm revived just the same.
Sooo ... while they are sleeping, why not start from the beginning?
It was this time last year that I was 10 weeks pregnant - with twins. As I recall, I was already in maternity clothes, but not yet out of the pregnancy closet, so to speak. We had not yet told the world that we were expecting TWO bundles of joy. That was difficult, as you can imagine, because I was already showing. I'm sure folks speculated that I was either drinking too much beer or was pregnant. What a fun -- and stressful -- time that was.
Edgar and I tried 5 times to get pregnant, was successful, but sadly that pregnancy ended in a miscarriage. Naturally, we were devastated. But, as God would have it, we got pregnant the very next month. And as Allen likes to say, God took away one and blessed us with two healthy babies.
Is this TMI?
Anyway, I remember so clearly the day we found out we were expecting again. I took a test first thing in the morning, laid it on the counter and walked away. Of course, not expecting it to be positive so soon after the miscarriage. Imagine my surprise when Allen walked up to me with the test in hand ... a positive test! We did a dance, hugged and cried. Still reeling from our sad loss, we were unsure of the next steps. We waited a day or two to see if the pink line got darker. And, sure enough, it did. We called my doctor who asked that I come in immediately for a beta blood test. It was positive. As protocol for betas, you have to go in several days later to see if the HCG in your blood is rising. Not only was it rising, but it quadrupled in like 21 hours or something like that. Clearly, this was an indication of multiples. At 6 weeks, my doctor requested that I come in for an ultrasound.
So, the ultrasound was amazing. The doctor was looking around at the baby and the heartbeat. I felt compelled to ask -- "You don't see two, do you?" And at that moment, the doctor scanned around -- and Allen, being a physician and clearly more educated on ultrasound than I, immediately recognized the phenomena -- turned bright red, shuffled away and started laughing. I was like, "what, what is going on?" And the doctor said, "funny you should ask, but, congratulations on your TWINS!" Now, I'm not proud of the words that next came out of my mouth, but it was a surprise so cut me some slack ... "Oh, S*it!"
And there we had it ... two beautiful babies with strong heartbeats. The next 6 months of pregnancy were a whirlwind ... but I'll save that for another post.
How fun is this?!! I had so much fun with my pregnancies. Darren knew I was pregnant with Madelyn before I did because I took the test at 4 in the morning and went back to sleep with it on the counter. I had suspicions for a few days and had previous negative tests. That morning he came in the bedroom with a positive test!! I didn't know that we would ever hear of another dad finding out before the mom! Congratulations, the girls are so beautiful and you seem like super mom!!
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