First thoughts that came through your head

QUOTE(trouble squared @ May 8 2008, 03:22 PM) [snapback]763077[/snapback]
What?! Like I had misheard the Tech. Then wow! I was really really happy. I went in early for the u/s because there was spotting so I thought I was having a miscarriage.

Exactly the same for me. I thought I was having a miscarriage so I was stunned when they told me they saw two sacs. I knew the u/s tech from the hospital I work at so I thought she was pulling my leg. My next thought was to kick my dad's ***. He told me from the day he found out I was pregnant that I was having twins.

 

[SIZE=10pt]We had an U/S around 8 weeks, as I was spotting. I was on the table and the tech was doing the abdominal U/S (I don't miss those at all ) We were looking at the screen, but not really knowing what we were looking at. She turned the screen for a moment to enter in some information and asked, "Are there twins in your family?" ~ I immediately answered, "No" (I remember them asking this in general with my older two) My DH looked at me like "What the heck it going on?" I told him it is just a routine question...not to worry. The tech then asked DH the same thing ~ he answered "Uh, No". She then turned the screen and said, "they do now"

DH was speechless....as was I ~ we had been joking ever since I got pregnant that we were having twins. We weren't sure if we wanted one child or two (DH didn't have any previously, and I had two from my previous marriage) Well....we got TWO!!! :banana:

I still laugh/smile when I think about the day we found out about our lil twinks

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I kind of have 2 revelations about the twins...my first u/s at 6w3d the doc showed us both sacs - one had a hb and one only had a fetal pole and yolk sac but she said it was a good size and would probably be ok...DH jumped up off the stool and screamed TWINS!!! I started to cry and said twins?

so they sent me for a f/u u/s at 7w6d and the u/s tech found baby A with a good hb but couldn't really tell anything about B - so I told the tech "as long as you have one good hb in there its ok if you're telling me B won't be ok"...so the told me to go pee because my bladder was too full (internal u/s) so I went to pee, hopped back up on the table and she was like "oh there's B's hb"...I looked at her and asked her if I should go take a sh!t to see if she found another one! :laughing:

 

I got a huge smile on my face
Thinking O MY GOD!!!
looked over to hubby to make sure he was ok

 

These stories are so fun to read!

I went in for my first OB appointment after finding out I was pregnant, and I couldn't find anyone to go with me (DH was at work, and my MIL had a previous engagement...) so there I was with no idea what to expect (first pregnancy, not really planned or anything). My dr puts me up on the table and wheels in this little u/s machine and she's like "Look at this!" and she shows me and I'm just like "Huh?" I mean, I've seen u/s from my friends and stuff, but I've never been able to understand what I'm seeing when I look at them. So my dr says, "How many do you see?" Now, all I'm seeing is these two black blobs, (this is as 6 wks) so I say "Two?' And she's like nodding "yes...." I couldn't speak. I sat there signing the ASL sign for twins for a few seconds before my english caught up with me! "Twins?!"
Then she looked for heart beats, and I had a moment of shear dread when she could only find one, but then she found the other and all was happy!
I had teased my DH the night before about twins, so I was afraid I'd have to convince him I wasn't joking when he got home from work (can't call him while he's there)

But as fun as all this was, it wasn't nearly as fun as telling my older brother. Background: major (good natured) sibling rivalry between the two of us. But our lives tend to be very similar. It's hard to one up each other when everything is the same! I wasn't too surprised when I found out I was pregnant a few months after I found out his wife was pregnant. My mom was thrilled because she's waited forever for grandchildren and so she was thinking "Two in one year! :Clap: " My brother kept telling me that there was no way I could ever one up him because he was planning on having a boy, and no matter what happened, his kid would always be the first grandchild. Well, I called my mom first after my appt and asked her how many grandchildren she wanted, and I told her I've got two on the way. She was like :yahoo: Then I called my brother and told him "I'm eating for three now." He was like "what, you have to chew [DH] food too?" I told him "No, just me and the twins." dead silence, then "nooooooo....." What I didn't realize then, but he did, was that with both of us having one baby, my mom would catch up to her friends who all to have 2 grandchildren. With me having twins she'd surpass them in one year. It was great! I totally one upped him! He then called my mom to make sure I wasn't kidding. It was great! (And now we've come to find out that he's having a girl, and I'm having two boys. He just can't win )

 

The night before the u/s my husband was teasing me he said are you ready for Dr to tell you that you are having twins. I said yea right. At the ultrasound he was asking the Dr about twins and she asked me did I have them in the family I said yes my grandmother was a twin. I said but please dont tell me its twins I already have a 2 year old! At that exact moment she had a picutre on the screen of two little sacs. I said o no you are kidding me! She said nope twins!! I dont remeber much after that except my face was blood red and burning hot. My husband was trying to use the phone in the office to call someone but couldnt get it to work! We had drove seperate to the appt and we both had to swear not to call anyone because we wanted to be together when we told everyone, BUT we both caved and called friends not family! We were both shocked and thrilled! The next day at work I was grining form ear to ear showing everyone the picture!! My husband said I have always wanted twins he has best friends that are id twins!!
We are still thrilled 10 months later!!!

 

My first thought was . . . how am I going to take care of four kids under four? I still spend most of my time wondering that--guess I'll be finding out soon.

DH and I had been talking about having twins for a long time--but I always said, not until my oldest is ten. Then the morning sickness was so bad I felt like I really needed to know, so I had an u/s at 5 months, expecting to find out it was just my imagination. Even the night before DH was saying, "You can't be having twins, you're not big enough."

I called him up after the ultrasound and told him he needed to go shopping for a minivan. He thought I was trying to tell him I had wrecked the car. :lol:

 

All my thoughts were comming out of my mouth. "You have got to be joking!" over and over. Then i started shaking and crying.. The thought of having twins.. SCARED the cr@p out of me.
But now i Love my babies!!! :wub:

 

I went back anf forth between "oh my god!" and "holy sh*t!". One of my first concerns was how I was going to breastfeed two babies, because it is really important to me. Then I became obsessed with bedrest. I actually visited the breastfeeding and bedrest forum before I made my way here. Now my main concern is just keeping these babies in. I don't care how miserable I become or how hard it will be to take care of two. I will be so grateful to be taking care of two healthy babies!

 

Absolute and utter joy, we'd tried to conceive for 3.5 years.

 

"WHAT???!!!!!"

We had just gotten our heads around being ready for baby #2 (took 2 years to get pregnant with baby #1) - so of course I got pregnant in the first month of trying! My OB did a transvag u/s at 10 weeks - confirmed the dates, responded to my husband's question of "Just one, right?" and sent us home with a picture of our baby (yes, one baby).

Fast forward three weeks to the NT scan - the tech at the peri's office said, "Have you already had an ultrasound?" and when we said yes, she said "So, you know you're having twins?" It took her a good five minutes of showing us different angles before we believed her! The staff at the peri's office still chuckles at our initial reaction every month when we got in for our visit.

 

I knew it!!!

My friend said I had quads since beginning at 6 weeks I couldn't fit in my clothes. It hadn't crosed my mind to have multiples (even though we put 2 back) but that morning I had a feeling. I also had a feeling one was a boy and one was a girl. I was right.

DH on the other hand, looked like a dear in headlights and was speechless the rest of the day. I had the most fun making phone calls and telling those who knew I was pregnant that there were 2 in there!

 

I went in for an u/s due to the spotting I was having. The OB even said that the amount I described concerned her a little bit, so I freaked out before the u/s. Thankfully I couldn't see the u/s screen without turning my head... I didn't want to be able to see something that I couldn't bear

Since it was so early on, I was having a vaginal u/s... the OB said, "Oh good, they're in two sacs so that they're not fighting with each other." They?! I thought. Then it slowly sank in and I looked at the screen - my first thought of it was "Oh sh*t!" Suddenly I couldn't feel her probing around in there anymore because I was in such shock.

Initially I was very emotional about it - both good and bad. Sometimes I would be excited, but a lot of times I'd feel overwhelmed about the money, raising two babies at once, and complications that could arise with it being a twin pregnancy.

But overall it is such a blessing to have two when I was so fearful that I was losing one. Even now I wonder how I'm going to do it, but it obviously happened for a reason so I guess I'll figure that out when they get here

 

First appt with ob/gyn, she thought we were there for fertility issues. It was like " No, I have already taken a pregnancy test and it was positive and I am having major symptoms" - so she wheels us off for the u/s, just for a more accurate conception/due date.

The tech says "Theres the heartbeat ...." at which point I turn to look all loving at my husband standing at my side .... but he is frowning as the tech continues to circle on my stomach with the machine and the tech says " and there's the other one ...." My head whips around and I am like " WHAT ?????" At which point my husband is grinning like crazy but shaking his head .... this can't really be happening .... he has fraternal twins from his first marriage and we are both thinking this obviously. These babies make eight for us .... we just couldn't believe it ! Its still hard to believe !!!!

 

"There has to be a boy in there somewhere!"
We had 2 girls and were hoping for a boy the third time. (NOPE! Four girls now!)

Right before I found out it was twins I quit my job of 9 years, and was sad about that. With the twins, I was in shock for weeks. Two weeks later my dear MIL suggested I see someone, I was in such a fog everyone was worried about me.

 

I'm still very early yet, but I'm still going through all the feelings and emotions.

We did IVF and transfered two embies as we were more afraid of the cycle not working than of multiples. Now, I'm afraid of multiples. LOL But after this we're most likely done. No more IVF's, etc for us. Such a long tough road!

My main concerns at the moment:


* Financial aspect (and I have to go back to work too. )

* Lack of help/support after the birth

* Bedrest/PTL

* NICU


Okay.........everything. :huh:

 

Well, to start.........I thought something was wrong when I first got pregnant because I felt so different than my other two pregnancies. There wasn't even a thought in my mind that it could be twins. I was not as sick and not feeling really tired or anything. I didn't get to go in and see my doctor until I was 10 weeks. I made DH come with me because I was afraid we were going to get bad news and I wanted some support.

My doctor was really quiet as she scanned me for a minute or so. Then she said "Are you ready for this?". I really seriously thought she was trying to soften the blow about how there was a sac, but it was empty or something like that. Next she said "There's one baby (then she scanned over a little) and there's baby number two". I immediately started bawling and asked her if both hearts were beating. My husband just stood there looking at the screen with wide eyes and his mouth hanging WIDE open!!! :lol:

Funny thing is, last April fools 2007 he called up his Mom and told her I was pregnant and that it was twins. He totally had her believing him for a few minutes! So when we started calling family and he got to one of his older sisters she said "Thats great, if it's really true!".

 

i feel really terrible for this now, but when i first found out, i laughed like a crazed lunatic and then i started bawling. i called DH and i was sobbing about how we couldnt afford two babies at once (it took a lot for him to convince me that we were ready for ONE more!!) After getting it all out, i got used to the idea though, and then i was super excited and felt very blessed. I still do!!

 

My first thought: Man my doctor is funny
My second thought: Why hasn't he said just kidding yet!?!

Twins do not run in my or my husbands family, but for some reason everyone kept joking with us saying we were gonna have twins. I was going in for my third u/s at three months when the doctor told me he saw two heads..I balled my eyes out and did not hear a word he said after that. I was scared out of my mind...I walked out and knocked a whole thing of pamphlets all over the receptionist's desk still crying. Then I told my husband and he thought I was kidding for like an hour Now I could not even imagine having just one and I feel soooooo blessed and no matter how hard it will be I am so excited!!!!!

 

At my 1st u/s at 6w3d, the doctor told us there were two sacs and my DH and I said simultaneously. "Oh. My. God." Followed by hubby shaking his head, sighing and saying "I knew it."
He has b/g twins from his first marriage and has been telling me for six years that I would probably have twins. So it's all his fault.