January 19, 2015 was the day our surprises started. I had decided to buy a home pregnancy test. Really not that worried because I was 3 days late for my cycle, I am however getting older so they could be getting longer between each one right? And I have always been very cautious when we were not planning any babies. Well guess who was wrong-o with a capital WRONG? This girl! We had 7 pregnancy 3 of those were miscarriages and 4 were preterm deliveries we were done adding to our family. Me out of fear because I didn't want to chance a baby born early again. And I have a corky thing with even numbers. All 4 of the kids were born on even numbered years. 2002, 2006, 2008, 2014. There are odd dates in there too. They were all born on odd numbered days. 7th, 17th, 9th, and 13th. But for some reason my brain focuses on the even. We wanted to have our kids when we were young so we could be younger when they were gone away from the nest. Being a stay at home mom for 12 years with 2 more years to go before our baby was in school all day. I prepared myself that we where all done adding to our family. I began to start planning on volunteering at Victory in the Valley, going to the gym for the exercise classes that my schedule would not allow with a toddler who naps in the afternoon. I wanted to volunteer at Camp Hope this summer. I still planned to be a stay at home mom. Mike because he was about to turn 40 and he has said "3 kids is enough, 4 is crazy". LOL. He really does love his babies though and we love crazy. He really is an amazing, patient husband and dad. I trusted in God and the NFP. Oh yeah we got rid of all baby clothes, exersaucer, swing, bottles, and little baby toys at Christmas time. I made Mike keep the crib and changing table.
I took home pregnancy test. The first line was supposed to be the positive line and the
second line was the one that shows up with a positive or negative. First line showed up very quickly
and dark. Thinking to myself or maybe talking to myself out loud, "no, no, no,". I took the second test that was in the box. Same exact thing happened. Shaking at this point. I called Mike at work. Shaking, crying. Not because I wasn't happy about another baby. It was because I've always had difficult pregnancy and delivered prematurely and I was scared our luck was running out. What if this one came way to early and didn't survive. He had to call me back. Well he is always so calm, cool, and collected. He did end up coming home a little early that day. I did think wow that line showed up fast and bright. I have a friend who has twins that the same line was bright very quickly for her too. The thought went through my head but twins are rare. Mike and I joke for the next few weeks about twins.
February 19th 2015. Our first doctors appointment. I go straight to the untrasound. My doctor always does a untrasound the first visit since I am prone to miscarriages and I have go be referred to a Maternial-Fetal Medicine doctor. The risk on miscarriage goes down to 5% after the heartbeat is seen. When my doctor was looking for baby she had to really dig and search for it. She found it and Mike jokingly said "is there only one in there". Doc chuckled and said yes and we don't want to add
anymore risk to this pregnancy then we already have to deal with.
This brings us to March 9th. My appointment with the high risk pregnancy doctor. He is the same doctor I went to with Jamie. The same nurse the same sonographer. I didn't care for her last time. We
had to keep telling her to correct my name and D.O.B in the computer. And when we found out Jamie was a girl she typed "it's a girl sorry dad". She started the ultrasound for this pregnancy. I thought I saw one baby then she moved to a different part do my tummy and I saw another baby. But also thought I have no idea how those machines work. I saw her out of my peripheral vision look at me. Then she said "did you know you were having twins"? I looked at Mike and then at her and said no. She said well you are. I said there was only one in there 3 weeks ago, someone is wrong. About that time the doctor walked in and he asked how I was doing? I said well she just told me I was having twins. He said "This wasn't on the schedule for today". I said "This whole pregnancy wasn't on the schedule." Then he proceeded to tells us all the different types of twins. I thought there was only fraternal and identical.
1.Fraternal Twins are when 2 eggs are fertilized with 2 sperm.
2. Diamniotic, dichorionic Twins are identical and have two separate placentas, amniotic sac. These twins split in the 3 days of conceptions.
3. Diamniotic, Monochorionic Twins are identical and their placentas fuss together and they share the placenta. They each have their own amniotic sac. This split occurs four to seven days after conception.
4. Monoamniotic, Monochorionic Twins are identical and they share a placenta and the amniotic sac. This split occurs after the eighth day.
After the doctor explained all these different types Mike asked so which ones do we have? We have diamniotic, monochorionic identical twins. #3 One of the risks with these twins is twin to twin transfusion. This is where one baby would pump to much blood and the other baby would not pump enough blood. There is something that can be done to fix this if it happens. A doctor can cauterize the artery. However there is no one in Kansas that does this I would need to go to Philadelphia or Dallas. It's sound like fun to go to these places but not under those circumstances. Another risk factor is if on baby dies it will relax and stop pumping blood back to the other baby. I don't know if there is anything that can be done in that case. I really only heard a third of what he was saying after I heard the word twins. I also figure I can't worry about the what ifs. We will cross those bridges if we come to them. For now we are waiting on a genetic test for Down syndrome and some other genetic test. I can't remember because the doctor said he didn't see that this would be an issue he didn't see anything abnormal in the ultrasound. We also chose to find out gender with that blood test. We will know in a week if we are adding 2 boys or 2 girls to the Brown zoo.
If all genetic testing comes back normal, I'm scheduled for a cerclage on Thursday March 19th. This
is a stitch in my cervix. I have an incompetent cervix that thins and opens way before it is suppose to. Mike likes to calls it a stupid cervix. For now we are taking one day at a time. Praying everything goes as smooth as it can.
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