Pregnant at 6 weeks and 4 days.

Each day I am pregnant is a blessing. I should have posted sooner but the passed month has been just a little stressful and very hopeful. After my three days of bed-rest I was able to go back to work. I worked the Friday and Saturday after the transfer but was still very achy and bloated. I had an appointment to get my first beta-hcg drawn on Tuesday and had this great idea that I would take a pregnancy test the day before. That was a very very bad idea. It was negative. I was so crushed. I texted my doctor and he said that it might not be accurate because it could be too early. I cried and cried and prayed until Timmy came home and he held me. I went in the next day and I was shaking all the way there and then I started crying after the blood draw. Dr. Chalmers called me an hour later to let me know that it was 71. Yeah!! I was pregnant 3 weeks and 1 day. Two days later I was able to get my beta-hcg drawn for the second time. It was 200. Dr. Chalmers just texted me this time letting me know he would like to get an ultrasound as soon as possible. Timmy and I went on a cruise the next week which was very needed. We both were able to relax and have a great time.

We got back on the 18th and the next day would be our first ultrasound. I would be 5 weeks and 4 days. Dr C asked me if I thought there were one or two sacs. I said one because the hcg levels were not too high, and I just had a feeling. Well I was wrong there were two little sacs with all their parts. He was a little worried about one of them because it was small but he was impressed about the way they looked. He said he wouldn't consider it twins because they did not have heart beats yet, and I had the possibility of vanishing twin. 

My next ultrasound would not be until the 30th of March but when I woke up this morning I was spotting. I was so worried, but had a feeling that everything would be okay. I called Dr. C and was able to get in at 11:00. We had two heart beats and everything looked perfect. I was sad Timmy was not able to come to this appointment, but I knew I had to go in to make sure everything was okay. The small one that he was worried about was just about the same size as the other. The one on the right had a heart rate of 113, and the one on the left had a heart rate of 125. He said as they get older and bigger their heart-rates will get stronger and faster. Timmy and I are both very excited and nervous. Each day is a blessing and I pray constantly that everything will work and I will get two healthy babies. There is still an 18% chance that we could miscarry, and that makes me nervous but each day I am a little more excited. I pray that everything will turn out.

10 Weeks Pregnant

It has been a while since I posted last, everything with our babies is great; however they keep scaring me. About every other week I start cramping really bad. Sometimes it is so bad that it wakes me from a dead sleep or so hard that it is difficult to stand up. Just yesterday I called the doctor because I started bleeding again, and passed a few clots. We went in for another ultrasound and everything looks great. There are still two babies, with great heartbeats. The only other weird thing is that it is hard to sleep I am very uncomfortable at night. In the next few days I will be able to stop all my other medications, and then hopefully I can try to be as normal as possible. We will have our next appt on May 11, I will then be in the second trimester; that is my next goal.

Baby "A"

Baby "B"

A few weeks ago was Easter, we were blessed to have my family here at the house for Easter dinner, and the money hunt. We had my cousin Dave and his wife and their kids, uncle Todd and Brian, My sister and her kids, and some of Steves family. It was so fun to hide all the eggs and watch the little kids go hunting. Poor little Aiden cried, I think it made him nervous hunting with all the other kids; too much pressure. Quincy of course found  the golden egg, after telling him that if he didn't he couldn't be mad and he would have to congratulate the other kid. What I really enjoyed was spending time with my sister. I guess I didn't take any pictures of the egg hunt, only video and it was long, sorry.

This week my little sister came to town. I haven't seen her since Christmas. It was good to hang out and talk and laugh.