9 weeks!

Tomorrow I am officially 9 weeks! We had an appointment on Thursday where we got to meet the Doctor and do another ultrasound. It was quick, but we saw two little heartbeats!

I don't know when I am ever going to get over the shock of the doctor showing two heartbeats during an ultrasound. While of course I expected to see them both, I was still somehow genuinely surprised when they were both there, just beating away! My next appointment is Sept. 9, and he said we will do a  quick ultrasound at each appointment because twins can be very difficult to hear on a doppler. I am also going to go to a specialist for high-risk pregnancies starting around week 16. So between the two we should get lots of pictures!!!

Kind of hard to see, but the two little blurs are the babies at 8 weeks 4 days. 

I figure I should go ahead and start doing the pregnancy survey that everyone does on their blog... But it will be fun to look back and see how quickly things change. I haven't started belly pics yet, although I guess I should pretty soon. With two of them in there it probably won't be long before there's a bump!

How far along: 9 weeks

Baby is the size of a: Raspberry! or Grape. Depending on who you ask. 

Total Weight Gain/Loss: I have lost 2 lbs in the last couple of weeks. That's what happens with you survive on saltines and peanut butter toast!

Maternity clothes: No, but it won't be long. I am unashamed to admit that this weekend I bought a couple of pairs of jeggings from Kohls and they are amazing. I am hoping to put of real maternity pants as long as I can. 

Stretch marks: Nope... fingers crossed!

Sleep: Eh. Sometimes I sleep well, other nights not great. Naps are my BFF though- I never knew I could be SO. TIRED.

Best moment last week: Seeing two little heartbeats- again!

Movement: Not yet.

Food cravings: Ugh. I have a love/hate relationship with food right now. I get SO HUNGRY, but then nothing sounds good at all. Yesterday I really wanted baked potato casserole (random), and I can go through an entire jar of pickles or a whole cantaloupe in a day.

Gender: Won't know for a couple of months- Ryan says boys, I say girls. We will see!

Labor signs: not for awhile I hope!

Belly button - in or out? In, and I hope it stays that way, for awhile anyway!

What I miss: Being able to eat normal meals.

What I am looking forward to: Being able to announce it to everyone! It's such a big secret to have to keep for so long! Ahhhhh!

Milestones: Putting away my skinny jeans... I may still wear some of the stretchier ones a bit longer, but they have gotten sooo uncomfortable. Jeggings it is! #Style

I am going to try to blog throughout this pregnancy, as much as I can. School starts back next week and my family is also coming in town, so I will get busier. Please keep praying for Ryan and I and our two little Raspberries- We have quite the adventure ahead!

The shock of our lives

There are a lot of things that have happened in my life that I never saw coming. I never thought I would go to Auburn, marry a man in the military, or move to California. However, I can honestly say that God threw me the biggest curveball of my life his week.

My first doctor visit was scheduled for August 15 (about 9 weeks.) However, this week I was having a couple of issues so they told me to go ahead and come in on Wednesday to check it out. My doctor was out of town, so I saw a Nurse Practitioner. After getting some blood drawn she did an ultrasound. Right of the bat, she was confused by what she saw. She couldn't locate my uterus at first (???) and then she saw a gestational sac but thought it might be outside the uterus (very bad). Also, she could see no fetal pole or embryo inside the gestational sac. According to her wheel of dates I was 7-8 weeks (even though I told her that wasn't right). She consulted with a doctor that I never saw and said I needed to go get an ultrasound done at a digital imaging center with better technology, but that it was likely that I had miscarried and could have a possible ectopic as well. 

Of course this was very upsetting. I hardly slept that night and was prepared for the worst when we went to the imaging center the next morning.

When she started the ultrasound she told me immediately that they sac was in the uterus- very good news. Within a minute or so she was able to see that there was an embryo- and that it had a heartbeat! This was the best news, I immediately started crying I was so relieved. She continued the ultrasound, taking measurements of everything. She started to smile and looked over at Ryan and said "Do you see what I see there?" He started smiling and she said "I do have a bit of news for you... You have two heartbeats" 

IDENTICAL TWINS. 

Babies A & B at about 6 weeks 4 days!

I cannot explain to you the shock of the moment when someone tells you that you are having identical twins. She showed me each embryo and their little heartbeats (126 & 119). Baby A was measuring 6w5d and baby B was measuring 6w3d. 

I kept waiting for the April Fools- I am not the kind of person that has twins. People like Becca Piedra Kelley have twins- not me! 

The rest of the appointment was kind of a blur as I tried to process this information. TWO BABIES AT ONCE? 

That afternoon we FaceTime'd  both of our families and told them the news- I think they thought it was a joke at first. We also decided since we had seen heartbeats we would tell a couple of close friends, so I called my BFFs in Texas and spent the rest of the afternoon googling how to have twins.

While I am still in shock about this, I am also starting to get excited about the journey ahead of us. The best things in my life haven't been in my plans, and I know these sweet babies will be a miracle and a blessing. I will try to keep this updated during my pregnancy- especially once we announce it officially.