Who's up for round 2?!

Matt and I had planned to wait until Charlotte turned 1, finish weaning her, paint our house and then think about baby #2.

You know what they say about making plans... and God laughing. The joke is definitely on us this time.

November 10th, a week before Matt took off to start the painting prep, and a month before the weaning "deadline" I took a pregnancy test. Sure it would say "not pregnant"... I mean who gets pregnant that easily?

Apparently me.

Taken 11/10/09

Matt already had plans with friends that night. I could tell he felt bad leaving me when I was a little in shock. He brought home yellow daisies and a half-gallon of double fudge brownie ice cream. Perfect pregnancy gift if you ask me.

We decided to wait until the end of the first trimester to tell anyone, just to be on the safe side. I told Matt he was on his own with the painting. I was looking forward to helping during naptimes at least, but I figured paint fumes probably aren't the best while a heart and lungs are developing.

I felt pretty normal until around Thanksgiving then I threw up that last piece of pumpkin pie all over myself on the 2 hour drive home. It was terrible. I was sick.

Let me qualify "sick" (I know some people have it much worse). With Charlotte some smells would make me nauseous and riding in the car. I threw up twice the whole pregnancy and gagged once in a while. This time I started to throw up about every other day and gag after every meal, during dirty diaper changes, and almost every time I opened the refrigerator (even when it has absolutely no gross food in it). I started calling the baby "twins" as a joke because I felt twice as sick. I would say things like, "The twins want Panda Express for dinner. The twins are tired. Etc."

Then on December 15th I went in for my first doctor appointment at 9 weeks. Matt has been super busy at work so he said he would come to the first ultrasound appointment since they didn't do an ultrasound at the first one with Charlotte. The doctor said I might be extra sick because it is a different gender, or it could just be random. Then she said they were going to do an ultrasound.

I knew as soon as I looked at the screen.

The doctor turned to me and asked, "What do you see?"
"That looks like two."
"You get an A+ my teacher friend, you're having twins! That would explain why you've been extra sick!"

Yep. We're having TWINS!!!

The doctor couldn't believe how calm I was, I just kept saying, "Goodness, gracious." People usually scream for twins. Part of me was in shock, but part of me wasn't that surprised. The hardest part was that Matt wasn't there. I thought about trying to come up with some cute way to tell him but I was too excited/anxious to wait much longer. I called him up and told him to come home early. Luckily he got home the same time I did because it was so hard not to tell him on the phone. I really wanted to see his face when he found out.

He had no idea why I told him to come home, but he came. I told him to ask me about my doctor's appointment. Then I told him they did an ultra sound and showed him the picture. I'm glad she gave me a picture because he probably wouldn't have believed me otherwise. He looked so happy and said, "Oh man! It really is twins!"

Once we found out it was twins it was too hard to keep it a secret so we called up our families. I wanted to stop there until I was further along but Matt was too excited to wait.  He told his friend from work that night, then all the Scout leaders and people at work the next day, then everyone on face book... and both of our families were spreading the news like wildfire. I figured I had better tell some people before there was no one left to tell. It makes me nervous to tell this early- I really hope everything will be okay.

Sorry all the pictures are so bad.  I don't have a scanner so they are a picture of a picture.

They both have their own amniotic sac and I saw both of their little heart beats which made me feel a little better- they can't tell if they are identical or fraternal yet. I'll do another post on all the things running through my head about this very life-changing news but this post is probably enough to take in at once. The full term due date is July 19th but twins are usually early so we might have June babies.

When we had the ultrasound where we found out Charlotte was a girl I remember telling Matt I really felt like we would have twin boys next.  I don't know why.  I wouldn't call it "wishing" for twins because I know it will be a ton of work but I just had this feeling we would have twins after Charlotte.  I'm going to guess boys just because I had that feeling, but I really would be happy with any combination.

I hope you're all up for round 2 of pregnancy and baby posts- and sort of round 3 as well! I'm still not sure if I'm ready, but I'm gonna have to be! We are definitely excited though!