Mom of Multiples Introduction....

Getting "Married"  =)

My husband and I had always wanted kids.  In fact, I've looked back at things we wrote at pre-marital counseling and found that we both wrote that we wanted twins.  Crazy.  Well, a few years into our marriage, we decided we were "ready" for kids.  But just weren't able to conceive.  Enter a very frustrating year.  Finally went to see a doctor, who prescribed Clomid, but the lowest dose.  When we went to pick it up from the pharmacy, the pharmacist had a little consultation with us about how this could increase our odds of having a multiple pregnancy.  I told the pharmacist that our doctor had told us this, but told us that our chances were very slim since we were on such a low dose.

A month later, I went back to the doctor.  They did a pregnancy test (which I didn't know at the time...I was naive, I suppose), but it came back negative.  A few days later, I took a test at home (with my husband present - they wouldn't let him back in the room at the doctor's office because he showed up late) and it was positive!  When we were just a few weeks along we had an ultrasound that let us know we were having twins.  The doctor was teary.  My husband was teary, and I just said, "I don't know how to take care of one baby - how am I going to take care of two?!?!?!"  Ha.

Later in the pregnancy, my sister, who is an ultrasound technician, did an ultrasound and found a cyst on "Baby B"'s brain.  She told us it would probably go away, but to tell our doctor.  So we did.  We were referred to a maternal-fetal specialist, as it was a "high-risk" pregnancy.  Like my sister predicted, the cyst went away, and "Baby B" was fine.  But during one of our many, MANY appointments with the specialists, we were told that the blood flow to our little girl, "Baby A", was stopping and that she had really low amniotic fluid, and due to the blood-flow issues, she would probably not survive.  In fact, the doctor told us that after they were born, they could perform tests on our little girl to see what caused her death.  And then proceeded to walk out of the room, taking a cell phone call from "Walter" (funny how we can imagine such little things) and acting like nothing was wrong.  My husband and I sat in shock.  We went home.  We cried (or at least I did =O).  We prayed.  Other people prayed.  A pastor and some others came to our house and annointed me and prayed for our little girl.  Next time we went back to the specialist, we were told that "Baby A" still had low amiotic fluid, but the blood-flow issue was resolved.  The doctor told us that he didn't know what we were doing, but to keep doing it.  I told him we were praying.  ;)

So, my twins, Ruby and Isaac, were born on Dec. 12, 2006. Big kiddos now. =O And what do you know? We, who were unable to conceive, received a BIG surprise when later we found out we were unexpectedly expecting ANOTHER little girl, and our little stinker Jadelyn is nearly 3 now. ;)