Oh Boy! Oh Boy!

Monday morning we set out on the first ferry to go to our routine mid-point ultrasound. I was really excited that we would get a glimpse of our baby and I was praying that he/she would be healthy. We arrived for my appointment around 12:30 and Sean waited in the waiting room with the three kids while I went in. As the ultrasound tech started the exam she chuckled, "Well, there's just one in there." I had a little chuckle to myself and suddenly noticed the change in expression of the tech. "Wait.......oh my.........there's 2 in there!" I thought that she must be joking. There was no way! I felt absolutely stunned and shocked. Even now I keep thinking that it is going to be terribly embarrassing when I have to tell everyone that the tech made a mistake and there aren't really twins. The ultrasound took over an hour because she had to measure each baby in detail and constantly confirm that she was measuring the correct baby. Both babies look healthy. I was 19 weeks and 2 days and yet both measured over 20 weeks.

Poor Sean was waiting out in the waiting room this whole time wondering what was wrong. When he was finally able to come in I just blurted out, "There's 2." He also looked quite surprised and shocked and I could tell that he thought I was kidding. When we finally got outside an hour and half later we decided to forgo our earlier plans of going to Nanaimo for the afternoon and raced to catch the 3:00 ferry. The last few days have been full of a mixture of emotions. As fearful and unsure as I am about how this is logistically going to work out, I feel very excited. Twins! This is not something I have experience with. I feel that this is single handedly going to stretch and mature me in ways that I have never been stretched.

I keep looking back to see if there were any clues, yet any strange symptoms I have had could be explained away. I am bigger this time but this is also my 4th pregnancy. I have felt constant movement since week 14 but I also felt Mikayla move quite early. I was sicker this time but I also have 3 little ones. I have been exhausted but have been battling a head cold for the last month. I also had an early ultrasound which revealed one baby.

The twins appear to be fraternal as there were two placentas and separate sacks. I have not been to the Dr. yet and will be going on Monday. I look forward to getting more information. We were able to find out the sexes.

Below is a picture of Twin A and this mirrors the same image I saw in Twin B. I think the evidence is quite clear.

Two baby boys.

3 under 2.

5 under 5.

Oh my!