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Can we reminisce for a moment?
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I know a few weeks ago we discussed about the moment when we found out we were having multiples.
Lets share telling everyone the big news.
My mom was at the U/S with us, I was SO sure it wasn't twins, so I had no problem letting her go.
We told MIL on Mother's Day, I gave her an U/S pic and after a minute was able to figure out that there was a blob there that "shouldn't" be.
We told my s-dad's extended family on Mother's Day at the annual Mother's Day picnic with me wearing a shirt that I embroidered "Twins" on.
The rest of the family just heard the news through the grapevine. Unfortunately, when I got pg with our twins, my cousin had been struggling for about a year to get pg unsuccessfully. When I was 6m she got pg with twins, and lost them at 9w. Thank the Lord, she now has a healthy 4m old baby boy.
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Re: Can we reminisce for a moment?
Fun idea for a thread! I was just thinking about the whole pregnancy, as I'm going back to my dr for my 6 week followup tomorrow.
DH and my mom went with me to the first u/s, at 6w 3d. I was so sure I was going to go in there and not see anything because we got PG so easily and nothing is ever that easy. When the tech turned the screen on (my dr's office has LCD TVs mounted on the wall for you to see the u/s) she said "do you know what that is?" and I said "uh, is that two of them?" We were all completely stunned.
When we got in the car, I took a pic of the u/s photo and sent it to a friend of mine who has twin brothers. She responds "wtf is that twins?" We still laugh about that. We called family on the way home from the u/s and they of course, all freaked out.
I look at these two little babies and it's still unbelievable to me that I have twins. Yet, just the same, I can't imagine only having one baby.
I went to the ER for bleeding at 5w6d and found out there. A friend of mine was with me so obviously she found out immediately. DH was in Iraq, but happened to call as I was on my way to the ER, so he was calling back every 30 minutes or so and found out over the phone about 10 minutes after the u/s. I think that conversation went something along the lines of:
"Hello."
"Hey hun, how's everything going? Have they checked you yet?"
"Two."
"I'm sorry, two? Two what?"
"Two. Just... two. There are TWO."
"There are two wha... holy shiit. Two? Really, there two? Oh my god. Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god. TWO?!! And they're ok?"
"Yep, they look great. They, I just said THEY. Because there are TWO!"
And then he started yelling across the phone tent to a buddy of his "DUDE, WE'RE HAVING TWINS!" There was a lot of congratulating, hugging, and passing of the phone after that. I don't even know how many people I talked to for about 5 seconds each. LOL
I didn't know someone could sound so excited and absolutely terrified at the same time. I called my parents right after I hung up with him. I have twin brothers so they've been there done that. My mom started crying immediately when I told her I wasn't miscarrying yet again, and it took me a good minute to tell her about the twins. Then she cried even harder. She ended up handing my dad the phone because she was crying too hard to tell him herself. When I told him he laughed.
"Hahahahaha. Oh god, that's great! You remember all those times you were mad at your mom and me for ruining your life by giving you twin brothers? KAAAAARMAAAAAA!" Followed by lots more laughing. He has a weird sense of humor.
Since we were going through fertility treatments our moms already knew we were pg. Then at 6wks5days I went to work and started bleeding, pretty heavily. I called my Dr and he said to come in for an ultrasound. We called our Moms (for support) and told them we were headed to the Dr. and why. Then as soon as we left the Dr. office my Mom called me and asked what happened. I said everything was fine, we even got to hear both heartbeats...she was like, what do you mean both...I said we're having twins!!! She started crying and saying a bunch of stuff in Spanish, it was awesome. DH told his mom right after we found out as well.
BFP Nov 09 - c/p Dec 09
BFP Dec 09 - A&J born in August 2010 at 37w, 6d
BFP Sept 11 - ectopic pregnancy/left tube removed
BFP April 12 - E born December 2012 at 39w, 1d
DS was only 7 months old when we went for our 10 wk appt. It was the day before Thanksgiving so we had the perfect time to tell most all of my side of the family.
We went to his moms in person and told her. She was super excited but had a lot of concern like we did since L was only 7 months old. We werent sure they would even be 1yr apart if I went into PTL.
As for my family we went straight to my mom and gmas house (they live together) and showed my mom the U/S picture. She turned it around 3-4 times and said "are there 2 of them or am I looking at it wrong" She was like MIL, excited but had a lot of questions. It was funny because in the U/S it was very clear there are 2 of them. They were side by side both head up in the same picture. 2 heads, 2 bodies, 4 arms, 4 legs. (well, arm/leg buds at that point)
As for telling most of the family (my sister and brother as well) we waited until everyone was ready to eat Tday dinner. (probably around 50 people. My gmas sister and her kids and their kids etc. My mom, bro, sister, me and dh, my mom and gma) My gma always says the prayer before we eat. After she did she said roger and I had some news to share. Roger said "Some of you may know we are expecting another baby in May" then I added "but even less of you know that there will be 2" We had only told my gmas sister that we were even pg again. I was only 10wks so it was really early. Everyone was shocked when Roger said we were pg again and erupted in excitement. I didnt say my part until everyone calmed down a bit.
It was a good 20mins before we ate after that!
I started spotting at 13/14 weeks on a Friday night at 7:30 pm...it seemed heavy. I spoke to my doctor and after describing my symptoms she said I needed to go get a u/s. If it got heavier, I needed to go to the emergency room. But if it maintained/stopped, she wanted me to go in for one in the morning. It stopped, but by the tone of her voice/my fears, I assumed I was in the beginning stages of a miscarriage. My mom came over that night to just sit with me and DH, and my best friends stopped by later that night with ice cream and hugs.
The next morning I went in to a u/s center. I'd barely slept the night before and was completely prepared for them to tell me that I'd lost my baby.
The tech did a trans/vag u/s (that thing hurt like a b&tch...they were in there for forever). It was taking her forever, but I know that they're not supposed to tell you anything so I was waiting for her to finish and call in the doctor. Finally (I think after like 10 minutes...which felt like 30), she said..."How much do you know about your pregnancy?"
I still don't know why...but the minute she said that I knew I was having twins. DH (having not read the books yet) said, "Oh we don't want to know what we're having..." Silly DH. I started crying (because I KNEW) and I said, "She can't tell us that honey, it's too early..." and I said to her "I haven't had an u/s yet remember, so what do you need to tell us?". And then she said, "You're having twins!" She switched on the sound so we could hear the heartbeats. I've never cried so quickly or harder...so much emotion that I can't even now explain. I was so sure my pregnancy was over, but it was doubled.
That was the best part....I got to call my parents, sister, and my best friends to tell them that my babies were ok
Then I got to call everyone else who didn't know there was trouble and tell them I would have two babies for them to meet in the spring.
We found out the spotting/bleeding was the beginning of placenta previa...which later corrected itself.
Sadly, I didn't tell anyone in a fun way. I was too freaked out. When I called my mom, she just laughed. I think she believed me, but she just laaaauughed.
Two of my best friends didn't believe me. They both thought I was joking. Ha, joke was on them!
(As a funny aside, my friend R's husband was an OB/GYN and he used to do u/s for me all the time. But he was terrible at telling gender. I didn't know what I was having, but he told R I was having girls. That's what he thought I was having. So fast forward to when the boys were born, and when my sister told K, my other friend, that the babies were boys, they thought I was joking AGAIN. Not that I knew they thought I was having girls, so not sure how I could have been fooling them by saying the babies were boys, but nevermind.)
How to tell my boys apart
The different types of twins and triplets
Jack, Sydney and Carynne, Annaleigh, JW, Eden...forever in our hearts.
My blog * We made the national news!
DH didn't go to my 1st u/s with me b/c he couldn't get time off from work...I was honestly convinced we would see nothing - another missed m/c and was omg there were 2 sacs...so I brought hte u/s pic home and just handed him the picture...it took him half a second and he almost fell out of his chair when he realized there were 2...he couldn't stop saying "omg...2???" how did this happen???"
We called both our mothers that nite to tell them the news over the phone...my mom was happy for us (and a bit weirded out - I had told her a couple weeks earlier that when I get pregnant next time...I'll have twins...I just know it...) and his mom cried happy tears for us...told our sisters in person handing them the u/s pic 1 week later when we saw both hbs...
When I told my work people at 13 weeks, they all said "oh, I knew you were pregnant" and I said..."but bet you didn't know I was having twins..." it was fun!
DH and I found out and told family and friends on the same day. We had our first ultrasound at 17 weeks. Taken from my pregnancy journal:
The tech gave us two profile pictures of each baby, labeled "profile - a" and "profile - b" and one picture that had the heads of both of them. (They wouldn't hold still long enough for another group shot.) I walked into my parents' house and told them I wanted to show them both the sonogram pictures. I started by showing them A, then B, then the one picture of the two of them. When we got to that one, my mom said "Now what is this?" I pointed to one side of the picture and said "Well, that's one head" and then slowly pointed to the other side of the picture and said "and that's one head".
She looked at the picture for another instant, then she looked at me and said "Twins?! Is it twins?!"
When I nodded a teary-eyed yes, she screamed. Swear to it, she actually screamed. I have permanent hearing loss to prove it. My dad, a little slow on the uptake, finally got the idea and laughed and said "wow". He was grinning his big goofy grin.
We spent the next several minutes discussing the ultrasound results, then we got my sister and then my godmother on the phone. Then I think my mom called most of her brothers and sisters. It was kind of funny, because they had to do a lot of the talking, because I truly was still in shock over the whole thing. Speechless, even, which is oh so rare for me.
That night I told my girlfriends. DH called his folks. I invited my brother to come over and we told him. Everyone was so happy for us. I think they were more excited than we were at that point. It really did take us about two days to get over the complete shock and move into excitement and joy.