Inside and Out

Here's how these little ones look on the outside:

And here is what they look like on the inside:

 

That's right, if you are reading the last picture correctly, they are sisters.  We're having 2 girls.  They were positive about Baby B and they want to double check Baby A at my next appointment but they were pretty sure she was a girl too.  I had my latest ultrasound yesterday and both girls are looking great still.  I thought it was so cute that they were facing each other.  The u/s tech said this would probably be the last shot we would get of both babies together in the same picture because they will be too big by the next time.

Other tidbits of information about the pregnancy thus far:

• I'll be 15 weeks on Monday
• My nightly feeling yucky and bloated has subsided a little, yeah
• I haven't been quite as tired...that might be just because I get more sleep now and force myself to go to bed earlier than I normally would.
• I am starting to show...hence the photo above...I wish I could stay this size! :)
• I haven't had any real cravings but there are definitely days that something sounds better than others, but it's just random.  I'm trying to force myself to eat healthy and eat a lot as they want me to gain quite a bit of weight the first half of my pregnancy.
• I started feeling them move this week.  It seemed a little early but I guess with twins it's pretty common.   The first time I felt Baby A move, she did a roll or something. It brought me straight out of my thoughts as I was driving one morning.  Since then I've felt little flutters here and there.  It's fun now but I'm sure as they get bigger and start actually kicking me it won't be as fun.  My doctor and u/s tech. on Friday were commenting on how much they were moving.  I may be in for it!
• No we haven't even begun thinking about names and decorating or anything like that, I'm sure it will come.

Double Trouble

Double Double the the pleasure pleasure,
Double Double the the fun fun!!

Are Are you you seeing seeing double double??

So are we!!!

Glover Twins Due October 3, 2011

I will be posting more stories about my last 2 months, finding out, announcing, etc. but will post it below this post, so keep scrolling down if you want more details.  Warning, I'll be posting a lot of details and pictures so that I don't forget any of it, feel free to skim or skip what you want.

I'm Pregnant???

It all started on a Saturday morning in January, I woke up and had to go to the bathroom...bad!  I NEVER wake up feeling like I have to go to the bathroom that bad.  I ignored it, it was too early to test and I certainly was not in the mood to get yet another negative pregnancy test.  All weekend my stomach had been churning, like someone was taking my intestines and twisting them, it was not fun but I did not associate it with being pregnant at all.  Even Shane asked if it could be a pregnancy symptom and I blew it off.  So Sunday morning rolls around and I wake up having to go to the bathroom again...2 days in a row.  This time I cave in and I go and get out my one and only pregnancy test I have in the house.  Low and behold a 2nd line appears and it appears pretty fast and pretty dark.  I get in the shower and by the time I'm done I'm convinced I had made up the 2nd line in my mind.  I get out and yet it's still there.  I'M PREGNANT!!!??!!!

I was about to jump on the bed and wake Shane up when I remember, I've had it planned out how I was going to tell him since before we even started trying.  I settle down and leave the room before he suspects I'm acting funny.

When Shane comes downstairs to eat breakfast I act like I'm preparing our primary lesson at the table.  He goes and gets out the cereal, goes and gets a spoon, by this time he realizes I'm watching his every move he makes and asks why I'm looking at him, I just shrug.  Finally....he goes and opens the cupboard to get out a bowl and this is what he sees in the cupboard:

 

His reaction?  'Are you serious?'  Of course I just shake my head because by now I'm crying and he comes over and gives me a big hug with a big smile on his face.  We really are pregnant.  After that day I took another pregnancy test, had a blood test to confirm it and then yet another home pregnancy test 2 weeks later just because I wasn't totally convinced I was really pregnant...I just didn't 'feel' pregnant.  But boy oh boy was I ever pregnant!

It's official...Twins

Because I was doing fertility to assist me in getting pregnant, I was being monitored very closely.  Luckily for me I didn't have to go as far as in vitro to get pregnant, but that can be a whole other post on its own.  But we'll leave it at, I needed help because of my age and my cancer treatment.  I feel so lucky it worked and the medical knowledge exists, even if it is a little pricey, it's so worth it.

So I went and got a blood test done to confirm my pregnancy.  When I got my levels back they were pretty high and based on some internet searching, I knew not to get my hopes up but that the numbers could possibly mean twins.  So I patiently waited for 6 weeks to roll around to go back to the fertility clinic so they could see the sac and possibly the heartbeat.  Such a long 2 weeks!!

I always thought that if someone ever told me I was having twins I would fall off the table...not really the case when I was doing fertility and for some reason I kind of just had a feeling there would be 2 in there.  So when I went to do the ultrasound that day neither Shane or I were very shocked when the doctor said 'there's one sac and there's a second sac.'  The scary part was when he said 'let's see if there's a 3rd sac.'  Luckily there wasn't.  The thought of 2 was exciting, the thought of 3 totally freaked me out!

We saw both heartbeats and things were looking good.  I officially graduated from the fertility clinic and they sent me home with a bottle of sparkling cider!

Here's the picture we took when we got home that night...notice Shane's hand on my stomach indicating we're having 2:

After that it was soooo hard to keep it a secret.  I knew my family would flip out that I was pregnant, let alone with twins.  We decided to hold out until my first official appointment with Dr. Langer, my ob-gyn.  I was also dying to talk to Brigitte about it since she is pregnant and I had a million questions and wanted to compare pregnancy symptoms with her.  I also held out and didn't say anything, but it was so hard.

Every night I would come home from work and talk Shane's ear off because I had been thinking of things all day and had no one to talk to.  He was very good and patient in listening to me go on and on about how sick I was or wasn't...luckily I was more on the wasn't side, which actually kind of freaked me out into not telling anyone because I wasn't totally convinced I would stay pregnant.  You always hear when someone is sick 'oh that means it's a healthy pregnancy' so what was I supposed to think when I wasn't sick?!?

So there I was pregnant, with Twins.  What does this mean?  I checked out a few books, did a lot of research and got myself prepared pretty fast for what type of pregnancy this might be, what we need to buy 2 of and what to do with 2 babies at the same time.  I still have a long ways to go learning everything I want to learn.

Some days I still feel like I might be in a little bit of denial over what this all means, but overall Shane and I are so excited and feel so blessed to have 2 babies join our family and we're doing what we can to prepare.  I feel so blessed after having to wait through chemo and the 2 year waiting period that we can jump start our family this way!

Ultrasounds, and lots of them!

Because I know you all want to see how cute our kids are already...here are some ultrasound pics taken over the last several weeks.  Without going into all the details, I've already had 5 ultrasounds.  I know crazy!  I won't post every last picture and detail I have but there are some cute ones to see how they're growing.

I have had some complications already and at just under 12 weeks, I've already been to the ER and have just finished up a week of bedrest.  Hopefully getting past this 1st trimester will ease things up a bit.  However, the babies are hanging in there like champs and although my body has some issues, the twins are growing right on schedule.

1st official Dr. appt., Feb. 25, you can hardly tell what they are...

March 1 ultrasound, they kind of look like gummy bears...

 

March 12 Ultrasound, they're getting bigger...

Football Family Trophy - Take 3!

You all know about our Goold Family Football and Basketball trophies by now...I've blogged about them several times.  Well...the trophy has come home to our house again!  That't right Shane won the trophy this year.  That means since we've been engaged in 2008 we have had the trophy in our house 3 out of the 4 years!  We are dominating the football trophy.  Matthew had it this last year and presented it to Shane at our football trophy presentation.  Jennifer came in 2nd and I didn't do so bad myself and came in 3rd.  Shane prepared a whole video presentation as his acceptance speech which everyone loved..  Congrats Shane!  The trophy feels right back at home again!  Our goal now is to win the basketball trophy in March so we have both trophies at the same time!

January Downer

I just wanted to blog about a few happenings this month.  This is kind of a downer post cuz all the things I have to blog about aren't that happy kind of posts I usually like to post about.  You've got to remember the good with the bad right?

1 - I got released from Laurels this month.  I was kind of shocked because they had just re-organized the whole Young Women's organization and had left me in and told me they felt really good about leaving me in.  I guess it changed.  I knew the week before I got released.  So at our Tuesday activity we took a class picture and I told them it was for our YW blog.  I was glad to get a good class picture and I'm certainly going to miss the girls.  The first 2 weeks after being released were good, but now it feels like it's been soo long since I've seen and talked to them.  I'll miss getting to know what's going on in their lives.  Shane and I got called to teach the Primary 10 year olds.  It's actually a fun class and I do enjoy being in primary again.



2 - I never blogged about this but didn't want to forget about it.  Shane's grandma passed away the day after Christmas.  We weren't able to make her graveside service as we were already on our trip to California and we all knew she wouldn't have wanted to change our plans and be an inconvenience.  So we honored her wishes and stayed on our trip.  She was 93 and had certainly lived an amazing life.  She had recently moved to Idaho to live with one of her daughters but had lived here in Utah for the past 2 1/2 years.  It was so fun to get to know her and visit with her.  She was always so active doing her own laundry, cleaning, etc.  and had the sharpest mind of any 93 year old I've known.  We'll miss her but know she's happy to be reunited with her husband again.

3 - After seeing my parents over Christmas, we were on our way back to Utah when we got a call from my mom that she had taken my dad to the ER for chest pains...scary!  They ran some tests, kept him in the hospital for a few days and everything seemed to look fine...but he was still having chest pains.  So a week later he went back for an angiogram procedure where they found major blockage and they put a stent in.  He's been doing great since then and no more chest pains.  He's been keeping us up to date of all the healthy food he's eating now.  We're glad the doctors were able to figure out what was wrong before it turned into a heart attack or worse.  He's back full time in the office and is doing great.

4 - Do you remember my post where I said how excited I was that something had happened to me that I had always wanted to and it never had?  Well I know you've all been anxiously awaiting what happened to me in January that I couldn't blog about.  The answer.....I was summoned to Jury Duty!!!  I know most of you are like 'why in the world are you excited about that?'  It's just something I've always wanted to experience and find so fascinating.  I think I missed my calling in life in not going into some type of law career.  I used to come home from school and eat my after school snack and watch Judge Wapner or People's Court and loved it, so it's no wonder I still find it fascinating.

So I was summoned to circuit court jury duty for one day.  It was quite interesting and I was totally intrigued by the whole process.  I didn't get picked though to be on the jury...darn it!  They only picked 4 jury members and they picked 3 guys and 1 lady.  It was a domestic violence case.  His wife (maybe ex-wife now, daughter and son were all going to testify against him.)  I almost stayed just to watch the case but in the end left and decided to go back to work cuz I had a lot going on that day.

So that's my January update.  I promise I have a more positive blog entry coming in a couple days.  Just waiting for a picture I need to take first.