Beyond the BIG News - Part 2

Once I found out I was having twins, my emotions were completely out of control. On one hand, I was very excited about the news. My friends were in shock – as I was – and telling my family was so much fun. It was so exciting to see everyone’s reactions. In fact, I think telling my mom was one of the highlights of my husband’s life!! My husband and my mom have a great relationship. He had been teasing her about the possibility of not telling her the baby’s gender for the two of them for the first few months of my pregnancy. Then when he called her up and said one of them is a boy, she thought he was teasing her yet again and it took us many, many minutes to convince her that he wasn’t joking and we really were going to have two babies!!

On the other hand, my other reaction was immediate worry. I’m not a huge worry-wort type, but we had weighted quite a while to get pregnant for the 2nd time, with a miscarriage in between, so my anxiety was already heightened. It also didn’t help that I went into the doctor’s office that morning with a “regular” pregnancy and I left her office with a “high risk” pregnancy. Just by the nature of it being a twins pregnancy, caused me to get moved into the high risk category. It was a lot to swallow in a short amount of time.

On top of that, the 20 ultrasound found a 2 vessel cord for one of my twins. The doctors told me that was not very uncommon and they would just keep a close eye on it. I loved my OB doctor, but for some reason the 2 vessel cord issue put me over the edge with worry and emotion. I couldn’t even talk to her on the phone after she called me with the news. My husband had to finish the call for me because I had broken down in tears from worry. I’m a pretty emotional person to begin with , but it concerned my doctor enough, that she referred me to a neonatal specialist for a hi-definition ultrasound. This turned out to be just the right thing to settle me down…..

Beyond the BIG News!!

Before I started blogging about our summer vacation with the twins, we had been talking about GETTING THE BIG NEWS!! When our ultrasound tech told me it was twins.....let's just say it's a good thing I was already laying down. The whole thing is particularly funny because I didn't find out until I was half way through my pregnancy. Yup. That's right - I found out at my 20 week ultrasound!!

We had been at a neighborhood BBQ the prior weekend and a bunch of my girlfriends were asking me how I was feeling. I told them that I was surprised how lousy I still felt considering I was now into my 2nd trimester. I was gaining weight like crazy, still nauseous and tired all the time and I just didn't know why. To which one of my friends immediately replied, "You sound just like I did and I was having twins!!" Ha! HA! HAA!! we all responded.

When I went to my ultrasound appointment the following Monday, I told the technician that my objective had changed from; tell me what sex it is - TO - confirm for me there's only one in there!!??!! I told the technician the story from the neighborhood BBQ and she chuckled as well.

Then there was a long, long, very long pause as she begin to scan my LARGE belly. After what seemed like an eternity she exclaimed, "it looks like your friend was right!!"

Again....it's a good thing I was already laying down.