A Milestone

You might think I've hit a milestone in my pregnancy, and although I probably have, this post is about the milestone of my car.

My 2003 Nissan Altima hit 100,000 miles!!  In my last car I missed seeing the odometer turn to 100,000 and I was so mad 18 miles later when I remembered.  So this time I was not going to miss it.  But I was nervous I was going to get distracted and miss it again.  So I kept staring at it...could I get a ticket for distracted driving for that?  "But officer, I really do NOT want to miss my car turn 100,000 miles!"  The officer would understand, right?  So the day before, I had been talking about it so much that Shane even wrote me a note to remind me.  It just so happens that I hit 99,998 as I got home from work one day so I picked up Shane and we went on a little drive until it turned.


There it is:

This car has been a really good car to me.  My last car I had sooo many issues with and it was supposed to be a really reliable car.  So I've been happy that Nissan has been so good to me and it just keeps running.  It's had a few problems and it's starting to sound old to me but overall I have no complaints and am happy it just keeps running me around wherever I want to go, whether it's just around town, to work or on a road trip.

Here's to staying strong Altima and please keep running for a while longer!

Apparently I'm showing

This week I had the first person who didn't know I was pregnant look at me and ask if I was pregnant.  And it was a guy!  I was talking to him at work, and he kept looking at me and looking at my stomach, back and forth.  I wasn't sure if he knew or not and then all of the sudden he says 'uh...' (and looks at my stomach) 'I don't want to say anything but....'  so I said 'Yes it's true'  and he says 'you say it, I don't want to say it first'  lol...so I told him that yes indeed I was pregnant.  So I guess there's no going back, it's out and forward with my stomach.

I went maternity clothes shopping with my sister in law Whitney this week.  She is 27 weeks and I'm 15.  I feel like I'm catching up to her.  I am not in maternity clothes yet, but am just in the in between stage where some things still fit me but my jeans are really tight on me.  So it won't be long now.  We had a family dinner last week and Whitney and I took this picture together to show our progress.  All my sisters brought over maternity clothes for us to go through and split up so it was super nice of them to get a lot of clothes so I don't have to worry about buying so much.

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...