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How did you react/feel when you found out you were having multiples?
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We're writing an editorial piece on multiples... and want to know:
How did you react/feel when you found out you were having multiples?
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Re: How did you react/feel when you found out you were having multiples?
Shock.
Terror.
Shock.
Confusion.
It took about 3 or 4 weeks before I felt happiness or excitement.
Unable to even.
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I went in for my u/s at almost 14 weeks because we thought I was having a miscarriage. It took the u/s tech FOREVER (and was my first u/s) until she finally said "has your doctor told you much about your pregnancy?" For some reason, as soon as she said that I knew. When she said "you're having twins" I burst into tears. Hiccupping, sobbing, messy tears. For me, the emotion was a combination of relief that I wasn't having a miscarriage (she immediately turned on the audio so we could hear both heart beats), and also the shock of that completely unexpected news. I was shocked, relieved, confused, and then terrified.
It took a few days before I actually really got excited. It was by far one of the craziest and most emotional moments in my life- oddly enough, even more so than when my girls were born!
Shocked, ecstatic, happy, relieved (that it wasn't more! haha!)
I went through IF and was sure this IUI cycle was a bust. Then my betas were pretty high so I sort of suspected it but when she showed me both sacs I have to say I was more shocked then I thought. I have to admit, when going through IF God laid twins on my heart. I never though I'd ever want twins but during the IF process, I started to pray for them!
After 2 years, Injects, PCOS diagnosis and 2 IUI's, we were blessed with our beautiful twin girls!
Baby Girl #3!
Utter shock. Based on my lack of symptoms, I thought for sure they weren't going to see any baby in there.
And then fear and excitement and shock. Mostly shock.
The first thought that popped in my head was, no lie, "we're going to have to get a minivan."
Heh.
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This is exactly how I felt and I wanted to go home right away to look at my budget spreadsheets to see if we could afford to keep the house. (We were able to keep the house.)
I said that to my husband while I was on the ultrasound table when we found out! My husband always said he wanted one and our lease was up so it just popped into my head.
Shocked and estatic.
We knew it was a possiblility from our IUI cycle, but my betas hadn't come in very high at all, so we had kinda ruled out the possibility. I was just sure we were going to find another ectopic pregnancy when we got there. The RE looked at the screen and looked at us and said "so how to deal feel about twins?" We were really elated over the news. Although the first words out of DH's mouth once we were alone was "hun, we're going to have to buy a bigger vehicle".
Awesome.
Surprised.
Blessed more than anything!
Complete shock. I had my first sono at 7 weeks and my OB said "I have good news and great news, which one you want first?" and I just kinda stared at her and DH said "twins?" I really wish I could have seen my own face because I remember turning my head towards him and givig him a look like what are you crazy and when the OB replied yup my head shot back to her. The world seemed to freeze for a whle, which in reality was prob 5 seconds haha, and all I could manage to say the rest of the appt was "what?" In the car on the way home I just kept staring at the sono pics with the two "lima beans" as DH called them and just started laughing in disbelief.
It took a while for the shock to wear off and still to this day there are times when I look at the two of them and can't believe I have twins. But I wouldn't have it any other way.
Diagnosed PCOS 2/07, TTC #1 since 8/09
11/10 - Clomid Round 1 = BFN
12/10 - Clomid Round 2 = BFN
1/11 - Voluntary Break = BFN (duh)
2/11 - Clomid Round 3 = BFN
3/11 - Femara + IUI = BFP * Beta#1=56 * Beta#2=266
*Cautiously expecting baby girls on November 28, 2011*
I'd gone through a miscarriage, then three months later I found out I was pg again and was a nervous wreck! At 6 weeks we went in for an u/s to confirm viability. I was such a bundle of nerves I literally didn't sleep the night before. I'd felt so "full" and a bit crampy that I thought it was possible we'd miscarry again. So we prepared ourselves for the worst.
We got into the office and when they took my BP was through the roof. I explained to the nurse why I was so anxious and she took me right back for the u/s, and instead of having a tech do it, asked a Nurse Practitioner who would be able to give me some answers right away if something was up.
She told me to take a deep breath and we began. Almost immediately, she looked at me, smiled and said, "I see two here." I remember being really confused and saying "Two what?" Then she said, "I see one healthy yolk sac here, and another here." I must have looked at her blankly because she repeated, "Here's 'A', and here's 'B"." Again, I blinked and stared at her blankly. She put her hand on my shoulder and said, "your having twins dear!" At that point, I just started laughing - that uncontrollable, church giggle laughing, which quickly turned into hysterical tears, and then absolute shock. I held my breath as I waited for her to find the heartbeats, and she waved her magic wand and declared it, from her perspective a healthy, twin pregnancy. I looked over at DH, who had his head resting against the wall behind him and asked, "can you believe this?" He got really teary and said, "No". It was so sweet how choked up he got
That's probably the last clear memories I have, because from then on out it was a whirlwind of complete shock, terror, and disbelief that we could be so lucky and blessed!
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I cried from shock, fear, worry, and excitement.
We were really anxious to see one healthy little heartbeat, and when our RE said there were two....no wait a minute, three little heartbeats, we were in awe.
I probably cried on and off all day...told our parents and siblings, so we had that support. Then at the next u/s all I hoped for was that each of the 3 little heartbeats were still flickering strong and growing! And they were and still are!
When the u/s tech said there were 2, we were in complete and utter shock! It wasn't even a possibility in our minds. But after a few minutes we were so ecstatically happy. Due to a previous loss, we were going to wait until after 1st tri to announce we were pregnant to family and friends, but we changed our minds and spilled the beans as we were going home from the u/s instead. We were 7 weeks along when we found out.
Funny fact about our story. I only had an u/s at 7 weeks because I went the OB the day before for horrible m/s. DH's explanation for being so sick? There must be 2 in there! And at first, my u/s tech did an abdominal u/s (for the purposes of showing a student the ropes) and only saw one baby. The internal u/s revealed 2.
I heard one heartbeat at a regular OB visit at 10 weeks. I opted to do the NT Scan (only to be able to see the baby, total selfish reasons). There was a student doing our u/s and the tech sitting in the room over seeing her. As soon as the student tech did one swipe, the tech stood up and said that she had to take over. DH and I thought there was something wrong with the baby. To my surprise, she then asked if this was my first u/s, which of course I said, "Yes, why is something wrong with the baby?" Her reply, "Ummm no, but you have 2 babies." I almost fell off the table, and DH kept saying, "excuse me, did you just say 2?"
So lots of disbelief, shock. I went home that night and all I could think of was 2 of everything, and where are we going to put 2 babies? After a few weeks everything sunk in, and I couldn't be happier to be a MoM.
Total shock. I went in for an u/s at 7 weeks because of some spotting. The tech found the baby, we heard the heartbeat, and I was relieved that everything was ok. Then she said, "There are two."
No joke, I said, "Two what?"
I sort of alternated between shock and fear for a few days, before excitement set in.
I smiled.
It was confirmation for me. At my first sono, they said the baby had a good strong HB. I continued to puke my brains out, eat like a cow, and felt like my boobs were growing exponentially! On sono #2 and I asked the MD if he could "check again" after they confirmed 1 again.... sure enough .... he said "yep, there are two in there!"
Honestly? I laughed.
Bit of a backstory here, I'm a military wife and my husband was on deployment. We did IUI so we knew we had 2 follicles that could have gone, and we kept joking that with our "luck" we'd get twins (which, after 2 years of trying, would have been a dream come true!). So my hubby kept calling them "the twins" in the emails. They had been out of contact for a month and we finally got email that morning where he had teased me some more.
The doctor did the U/S, and got really quiet, and said "Well, I hope you're ready for double the surprise." I just laughed. Then he got very very serious and 5 minutes later I was freaking out thinking we had lost one or something. He turned and looked at me and said "Well, I hope you're ready for triple the surprise!" I just cracked up and asked if he was serious. I was in disbelief. The doctor stopped what he was doing and said "I don't joke about things this serious."
At that point I started to get nervous - what would happen? I am a runner, can I still run? We had orders to move to Japan, will that be cancelled? Nervous, anxious, uncertain, were all the feelings that came in right after the ecstasy that was finding out I was indeed pregnant and the babies looked okay!.
From there it became disbelief, then acceptance, then excitement, and now it's just nervous anticipation
There's no bigger deployment craziness than finding out that you're pregnant with triplets while you're husband is on a submarine, out of communication, and you want to tell him before anyone else, but have to go through an entire list of people to get the info out to him!
When the u/s tech said "there's two...", I said "Two what??" My husband and I couldn't stop laughing for the rest of the u/s. We had a 2 y/o and 9-month-old at the time, so it was a mixture of joyful and nervous laughter.
I had a m/c at 7 weeks, so when I had a positive home pregnancy test shortly afterwards, the nurse sent me in to get my blood drawn to confirm the pregnancy. Everything was positive so I scheduled an appt with my OB's office, and ended up with the new partner that just started with the practice. He decided to do an u/s to date the pregnancy, and what would you know? I was 6 weeks along, and there were TWO babies in there! I thought it was a routine 1st visit so my DH wasn't there, and I just laughed when I saw both babies on the screen. After my m/c I was so elated to have 2 babies! When I told my DH, he was in shock. It took him about a day for the shock to wear off, and then the excitement took over for him.
The OB that did the initial u/s had just joined from a perinatologist's office, so he had really good experience with multiples pregnancies, and I got to see him along with his former partners in the peri's office.
Like many of the other posters, I freaked out. I was by myself at the ultrasound and when she said "Oh, there's two!" I said "WHAT?!" and yanked the screen over more so I could see it. After I saw the two sacs, all I could say was "Holy sh!t" and "Oh my god". Literally, that is all that came out of my mouth for the entire appointment. As soon as I walked out the door though I became hysterical. I was a bawling, hyperventilating mess. I called my mom, DH, and BFF and none of them could understand me because I was crying so hard. I just kept screaming "There's two!!"
I don't think it ever really sank in until they were born and I could actually see that there are two of them!
Shock... excitement...felt like we had won the lottery. Pure joy. Thrilled. Felt like a dream and instantly started to worry something would go wrong or that I would MC.
I went in for an u/s at 6wks to confirm my pg. Only saw one baby so we thought. Went back at 10wks due to some confusion of when my last cycle was and when I got a positive test. I think my dr was a little suspicious the entire time. At my 10wks appt there were clearly 2 babies. We were on one single instant thrilled, nervous, SHOCKED!!! and ecstatic. We were only nervous because of the age gap there would be between our first child and the twins. My son was only 4 MONTHS old when we got pg. That meant we werent sure he would even be a year old before the twins were born if they came early. Luckily I made it to 38wks and he was 1 yr and 11 days old at that time.
I went in to have an urgent u/s to determine viability. I bled quite a bit at 6 weeks. In the span of a few hours, my husband and I went from thinking I was miscarrying, to trying to get our minds wrapped around the fact we had conceived twins.
I wasn't allowed to see or hear my u/s while it was going on. The techs told me my family physician would call later that day with the results. So we left the office not having a clue what was going on. I remember distinctly telling my husband when we got in the truck, "If Dr. Soandso calls and tells me the babies are fine, I'm going to freak." I said it sarcastically. It was supposed to be a joke. Who knew a couple hours later she would call and say pretty much that.
I cried immediately, then off and on for a few days. Complete shock. Terror. Disbelief. How were we going to afford two babies? Are the babies even going to make it to term. Am I going to be on bedrest? How the bloody heII are we going to manage?
I went in for an early appt at about 8 weeks because I was having a lot of pain in my right side. DH could not go with me, so I was by myself. At the appt, my doc said, I want to do an ultrasound to check everything out. She and I were both thinking something was not right with all the pain I was having.
Here is how it unfolded:
Doctor: "Okay, I am going to look in your uterus now. oh! OH!"
Me: "WHAT? WHAT?"
Doctor: "I see two hearts."
Me: "My baby has two hearts?
Doctor: "No, your baby has a friend."
Me: "What the hell does that mean?"
Doctor: "You are having twins, I'm trying to tell you that you are having twins"
Me: "Actually, that's not possible, it doesn't run in my family and I'm not on fertility treatment."
Doctor flps monitor around and points to the screen and says "I see two babies. Do you see two babies"
I then laughed uncontrollably for a solid hour. She went on to talk a bit about twin pregnancy but I have no idea what she said. At the end of the appt, I was still laughing so hard that she grabbed my knees and said "I need to know you are okay to drive"
I am still laughing at the news!
When we had our first ultrasound, and the nurse said "Yup, there's two!" I said "Two what? ovaries?"
Disbelief, thank god pregnancies take 9 months because it usually takes MoM's that long to get over the shock.