TWINS!!

TWINS!

Baby Beck A and Baby Beck B.

Itty Bitties.

Babies by Beck.

HOLY COW 

Ok, I should actually start this post off by saying I have had an incredibly STRONG premonition that I was carrying twins in here, and that was confirmed today! Two babies, Two Strong heartbeats, Two super excited Big Sisters, Two ecstatic parents!!

So let's back track, to the beginning of week 8.

 I was still crazy tired, but we did our usual 1000 activities per week and worked as much as I could. (End of the month and goals needed to be met ;) Thursday night rolls around and I started getting pretty crampy and it was super uncomfortable to sit down. My cervix was extremely low and I was freaking out. Of course this happens at 4:30pm when the office closes at 5. The nurse tells me she can "squeeze" me in to see a PA on her lunch on friday. (we were supposed to head up to Traverse City on friday morning). Ok great. We'll wait for this apt and then head up. Around 2am I got up to go the bathroom because my bladder is the size of a pea and there was blood. Que a whole night of no sleep and frantic googling. Curse you google. Why is it we always go google crazy when something medical happens?!

First thing Friday morning I call into the office and give them the additional info. They decided not to see me and to send me for Lab work ordered STAT. Que basketcase Jacee. I have never been so nervous in my life.  This pregnancy was already POLAR OPPOSITE my previous two and now this?! UGH. Once lab work was done we headed up North. I didnt get a phone call until again, 4:30pm (right before the office closed) This was our conversation.

Nurse-Well, (sounding suprised) your HCG is REALLY high. So we need you to come in right now for an ultrasound.

Jacee-Ok well I'm in Traverse City so there's no way I can get there right now.

Nurse-Ok well we're closed monday, but we'll be scheduling you for a scan on Monday so we can see whats going on in there!

Jacee-So my hcg is high what are you thinking? 

Nurse-Well it could be several things...

Jacee-I feel like there are multiple babies in there, is this something you're looking at?

Nurse-well.....yes.

Ok great. So now I'm in TC with high labs and no chance of an ultrasound until Monday.

Off to google I go.

High HCG could mean these three things

1.You're farther along than you thought

2. Multiples

3.Molar Pregnancy. (tumor on the uterus)

By morning, My labs were visible to me online.

I would be about day 59 by my calculations So WAY off the singlton chart. Ok so that ruled out further along, I had found a heartbeat 3 times on the doppler so that ruled out molar.

PREFACE: I have thought I was carrying twins from very early on. When I found out I was pregnant, I actually had a conversation with my mom in my car (as I sometimes do when I'm alone) I asked her if she had any pull up there, could she pull some strings and give me Boy/girl twins. So if this ends up being the case I will be so ungodly happy. Thaaaaannnnk yooouuuu mom!

We tried our best to relax up north, we went on boat rides, I obsessively checked for my lab updates on my phone/googled, we did a wine tour, where I had to watch everyone drink my favorite wines and I took several naps, because I'm literally tired all the time!

By Saturday night I couldn't take it anymore and we decided to drive back late so we could get home and I could figure this out. I WAS GOING NUTS!

So TODAY. I still hadn't heard when my scan was going to be so I called the on call DR.  She took a look at my high labs, started talking concerns for Molar pregnancy and told me to go to the ER for an ultrasound. My anxiety went through the roof. She said she normally sees patients with HCG levels of about 50-80k at this point and I was well over 300k. So I drug Brandon in from the golf course, found a friend to watch the girls and off we went!

THE ULTRASOUND

I gowned up and was wheeled off to an ER ultrasound room where I proceeded to wait in the hallway until a room opened up-pretty comical sitting nude under a sheet in a hospital hallway ;)

Once inside the room, the tech stated that she could show us a pic of the baby but wouldn't be able to tell us details, that the doctor would have to do that.

I quickly spoke up and said "I'm pretty sure there's more than one in there"

I would have been shocked if there had been only one.

Sure enough! As soon as the image appeared THERE THEY WERE!!!

Two sweet little babies tucked perfectly in my belly, heartbeats all a flutter and wiggling all over the place! It was the most perfect sight! My head was on a swivel between Brandon and the screen!

He was Beaming! SO SO excited!

A huge relief washed over me. They were fine, everything was good and they were a THEY!

While the tech got several more measurements, I laid back and just relaxed! Until...

my phone blows up! SO many messages poured in with OMG TWINS?! Brandon was so excited he literally was texting everyone the news even before we had left the room haha

 The Dr. told us it looks like I'm actually about 9w 3d which puts me at a FEB 3rd due date, BUT 34-37w is typically as far as twins go, so We're looking at Early/mid January! 

I go in to see my actual Doctor on Wednesday so hoping for a more in depth ultrasound and some Pictures to be able to share!! We are OVER THE MOON excited to become a family of 6!!!

FAQ

To hopefully answer all the questions I have been getting for the past few hours ;)

1.Twins do not run on my side of the family (genetically, the mothers side is the only one that matters)

2. It looks like they are PARTIALLY sharing the same sac so the ultrasound tech said leaning towards identical. (my egg split) But we'll know more at the next scan

3.100% Finding out the sexes-WE'VE GOT NURSERIES TO DECK PEOPLE! ;)

4.The cramping and bleeding was most likely attributed to the stretching of my uterus to accommodate 2 babies! 

SO FREAKING EXCITED!!! 

Update to follow on Wednesday!! 

More week 8

 We got to meet Two Ladybugs from my June moms group! Here is Lennie, Aria & Sam!

 Dinner out for Brandon's 31st BDAY!

A comparison pic 

8 weeks with Twins vs Aria