A Timeline of... Twins!

I have been off of this blogging thing for about a month now, but I will be trying to be better to keeping this updated as much as possible! For those who don't already know, we are expecting a couple of new little ones in early spring. Here is a little bit of what has gone on since I have gotten a BFP (big fat positive), and what I have been doing instead of blogging)

3 Weeks (September 23-ish)
I took a pregnancy test 1 week before a missed cycle and it came back positive! I was pretty surprised I had a positive reading already. It said on the package that 60% of pregnancies can be detected that early.

5 Weeks
Did you know in our family picture there are actually 5 people?

6 Weeks 
Macyn's birthday party! Really wanted her to wear a "big sister" shirt, but I thought it would be too early to announce. I have always been a firm believe of keeping my mouth shut until you know everything is going smoothly - aka hearing a heartbeat.

7 1/2 Weeks
Thursday night Vikings football game in the cities! We made a long weekend out of it and hit up some shopping. I also came down with some pretty bad bronchitis the previous week that ended up lingering for 8-9 weeks. Awful! Needless to say I ended up sleeping in the car instead of shopping for part of the trip. Between walking around, bronchitis, and being pregnant, I was extremely exhausted.

9 Weeks
First doctor's appointment. I knew it was pretty early to hear a heartbeat, but I was really hoping we would so we could at least tell our parents and possibly others that we were expecting. It was around here it was getting a little more difficult to hide my belly. I attributed it to just showing sooner with your 2nd than your first!

So we went to the doctor, and could not find a heartbeat. My Dr. then brought in the portable ultrasound machine to see if there was indeed a baby in there and/or hear the heartbeat. We received this precious little picture of our baby:

We still couldn't hear a heartbeat, but my Dr. claimed she could see it's little "flaps" aka. arms and legs moving. The baby was measuring 1 week ahead in size, and so was I. Now, take note - there is only ONE visible baby!

A couple days after our initial appointment we told our parents, but explained we were waiting to tell others until we heard a heartbeat with the doppler.

11 Weeks
Another prenatal appointment, mostly to listen for a heartbeat. And guess what?! We heard it (one heartbeat that is)! This was the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, so we told all our family the following day about our news.
I would be getting an ultrasound within the next couple of weeks because I was measuring 1-2 weeks larger at the time and she wanted to make sure the dates were right. I didn't think much of this because Macyn would always measure between 1-3 weeks ahead.

12 Weeks 1 day
Time for our "dating" ultrasound. Everything looks really normal until the moment the ultrasound tech uttered the words, "Do twins run in your family?" My heart sunk into my stomach and I was like, "why?" And she said, "well, you are definitely having twins and they look like they are identical."

Holy cows. Seriously? And sure enough, they started measuring Baby A:
Length: 7.23 cm = 13w 3d
Heartbeat: 155 bpm

And here is Baby B:
Length: 7.42 cm = 13w 4d
Heartbeat: 169 bpm

And here are their two heads together....I actually had to go in for a second scan the same day because the radiologist wanted to take a look and make sure they are identical. As of now they are still going with that, but it could change whenever I have my next ultrasound. Identical twins are higher risk than regular twins, so it means more doctors appointments and more ultrasounds. 

 

So after only seeing 1 baby, hearing 1 heartbeat, there are two! We were shocked but she shock has worn off and has turned into excitement. I will be 15 weeks tomorrow, so I will try to update a little more :)