On august 20, 2005 Donny and I said "I do" we were young and dumb and in love and that's all you need right??? Well we were married now we needed a baby... or so we thought... well after trying for about a year I remember telling Donny I don't think its normal to be taking this long to get pregnant... so I went to my yearly doctors appointment and told my doctor what was going on. She sent me to a couple different fertility specialists and looonnngggggg story short we tried with fertility specialist off and on for 8 years and thousands of dollars and no luck. For the longest time I was very bitter about the whole thing... We were good people, why cant we have a baby???? You know what??? God knew what he was doing!!! We didn't need a baby in those first years of marriage, and im so greatfull looking back that we didn't have a baby in our first years because I don't know if we would still be together. We had some rough years but we are so much stronger because of those years. And I can honestly say I love Donny more today then the day I married him.
We had decided to take a break from fertility treatments after our 4th failed IUI. We decided we were going to just live life and enjoy each other. Now people had said this all along in our journey "just try to forget about a baby and boom you will be pregnant" yeah right you crazy hag is what I would think every time!!! But that was exactly what we had decided to do. We were going to take all our fertility money that we had been spending and take a great vacation every year. Our first vacation was a road trip thru Colorado, Montana and Wyoming. We had the trip of our lives and the best time ever!!! We were planning on going to Tennesse next year and we were already starting to plan that trip. A lady at work mentioned that her daughter had gone to this great doctor and I should give him a try. So donny and I talked about it and we decided to give fertility 3 more tries with this new doctor.
On October 12th 2015 we went to see our new fertility doctor. We had a 3 hour appointment with him and learned more about our infertility in that 3 hours than we had learned in 8 years with 6 other doctors!!! When we left there we had a set plan, he was determined to help us!!! He sent us home with a date to return to start the 1st round of fertility treatments. Well on October 27th I woke up at 2:30 am just feeling horrible. I thought in my mind (like I had done 100 times before) I feel bad maybe its morning sickness. I got up and took a pregnancy test... immediately 2 lines showed up and the tears just started flowing!!!!
I went to the doctor that afternoon for blood work and had to go back 3 days later to see if my levels had doubled. well they had!!! and on October 30, 2015, which is exactly 11 years to the date that Donny and I first met, we got the call we had waited 10 years for..... YOUR PREGNANT!!!!!!!!!! They told us our due date was July 3rd 2016!!!! We were going to have a little fire cracker!!!!!
-side note- on that day a lady at work told me I just looked like i was glowing... and then a few days later my mom asked what makeup I had been using because my skin was just glowing!!! (its called a baby in my belly mom.... but i couldn't tell her that just yet)
November 11, 2015 we went to have a sonogram and we saw you!!! A tiny little bubble but you were there!!!!
The sono tech was able to detect a heart beat and we were over the moon in love with you!!! On November 24th we went to meet our new nurse and have another sono at my doctors office. The sono tech kim was the tech that did all my sonos for the infertility treatments and she was so happy that we were actually pregnant. She was almost done with the sono and she said the words that changed our lives forever!!! "oh I need to measure this second yolk sack, wait you only have 1 baby why do you have 2 yolk sacks???? well lets go find that second baby!!!"
I almost fell off the table and Donny got very nervous!!!! and sure enough there you were our second baby... we were having TWINS!!!! We took the sono to moms work and shocked her and every one else as we would tell them. I had morning sickness from very early on, so much that I actually lost weight. Our next hurdle was that the doctor didn't see a membrane separating you 2 on the 11 week sono. Both boys were sharing a placenta and if there was no diving membrane it would have been a super high risk pregnancy. We went to the appointment at 11 weeks and the sweetest little lady named mary was our tech and she found a membrane!!!!
We were all so happy!! Also during all this my obgyn is actually pregnant herself and we are due at the same time... so I went the whole time not knowing who would be delivering my babies until the day before I delivered!!! At around 20 weeks we discovered that baby A Charlie wasn't growing as big as baby B Connor. The doctors all freaked out a little and I had to start being monitored twice a week on Mondays and Thursdays. I had to go to Amarillo and go to one doctor and have a sono where both boys had to pass an 8 point test. Then I would go across the street to the hospital and have a "non stress test" to monitor both boys heart beats. It was a lot but so worth it to make sure that both boys were healthy.
In doing all those test the doctor said that Charlie had a pretty worrisome hole in his heart. We had to have a pediatric cardiologist come and do a sonogram to make sure his heart was ok. He couldn't say yes or no if the hole was actually there so we would have to wait till they were born and then do further testing... so we're already worried that Charlie is over a pound smaller than his brother and now he has a hole in his heart. So on Thursday june 2nd we went to our normal appointments and Charlie didn't pass his 8 point test by 2 points because he didn't do his practice breathing... our specialist doctor got worried and told us we needed to deliver the babies that night. I was scheduled to see our new obgyn in an hour so I talked her into letting me meet my new doctor and then make a plan with him!! I went and talked to him and he was incredible!!! I cant say enough good things about him!!!! He was so funny and funny was what I needed because I was slightly freaking out... he walked in and said "hello my name is doctor McGill-a-cutty and then laughed at his own joke!!!! and that made me so calm and I needed that!!! when we were leaving the appointment he told me "don't worry im going to go home and youtube how to do a twin C-section" that made me laugh too because he is retiring this year!!! so he agreed to let me go to the hospital and have the non stress test and if it was ok I could go home and then have the babies the next morning at 8 am. well the test was good and Donny and I headed home.
we returned to Amarillo the next morning at 6:30 to get prepped to have our babies!!!
OMG that line about youtubing how to do a twin c section... so funny!!!! i busted out laughing...
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