FINALLY!

We are FINALLY PREGNANT!!!

It is still hard to believe it even though we are 17 weeks at this point.  I think we took about seven pregnancy tests (just to make sure we still were every morning).  After we had taken all the at home tests (and seen all those little + signs), I was scheduled to take a blood test to find out officially from the doctor.  Waiting for the phone call was antagonizing!  But finally the news that we were officially pregnant!  Then I had to go back two days later to make sure my HCG levels had doubled and it was a viable pregnancy.  So, two days later back to LabCorp I went and had more blood drawn and waited one more day to find out that indeed everything was good.  A relief to some degree but then we made an appointment for and ultrasound at six weeks.  Waiting for that appointment seemed like an eternity.  We woke up Valentine's day morning excited for our first pictures of our little one.  I went to get in the shower to get ready and I was bleeding.   Of course I was then in hysterics as Paul was trying to calm me down.  Luckily we had a morning appointment and Paul called to let them know we would be there as soon as they opened and needed to be seen immediately. They took us right back and we did the ultrasound.  My bleeding was the cause of a uteran blood clot.  A relief that I wasn't miscarrying but then I was left wondering what exactly that meant.  Then the other news "it is twins"!  I think we were awe-struck but I was still in a state of worry.  The ultrasound was over and we were supposed to meet the doctor in his office to talk everything over.  I hopped of the table, got dressed and opened the door ready to run down the hallway.  Then Paul told me to hold on as he was getting himself together.  I took one look at my husband with tears running down his face and realized I didn't even let us have that excited moment.  Up to this point of trying to conceive I was so stressed and I thought that feeling would have ended the moment we found out we were pregnant.  But at my level of stress I not only didn't let it all set in for myself but was taking it away from my husband too.  Needless to say, we got ourselves together and walked into the office.  Apparently, the blood clot was a fairly normal thing but I had to have another ultrasound in two weeks to make sure that everything was okay.  So, letting it sink in, we walked out of the office and called our parents with the news that we were not only pregnant but having TWINS! 

Two weeks later I went for another ultrasound.  Everything looked good and I was being released from our specialist to see an OBGYN.  It felt weird having to see a new doctor when we have been working with the same one four four years.  But happily I walked down to my new OBGYN's office and made my first appointment.   

So four ultrasounds into it, a new doctor and belly getting bigger I can officially say we are feeling comfortable with the fact that it is finally our time to start our family.  We have our to-do list in order and are counting down the weeks until they are here!


17 WEEKS