Today (the 27th) a year ago, me and AT got up super early to go 3 hours for a doctors appointment. It was finally the day we were going to see our baby's heart! I was 6 weeks and 3 days and horribly anxious everyday praying our baby would be fine. To ease the tension from my anxiety I playfully kept joking around with AT about how we were going to have twins and how he'd look so good with 2 babies. Finally he snaps me back to reality, "we're lucky we have one, it's been a hard journey let's not get our hopes up we're lucky it happened so quick for us" As we got closer to the doctors office we both got more nervous, praying that the doctor would see our baby's heart. As we pulled up to my doctors office I, for the last time, joked around about he shouldn't be surprised to see two hearts, a faint smile on our faces we went inside. About 30 minutes after waiting my name gets called and we go through the door and settle in for our first ultrasound. I'm nearly in tears praying we see a heartbeat and that I didn't have another miscarriage. The doctor comes in and starts checking to make sure everything's okay. After a few minutes later after telling his nurse some notes he begins taking to us. "First lets look at this dark spot, this is your baby. See the flicker? That's their heart; it's going 160 that's great!" I look at AT beaming it's finally happened we saw our baby! Smiling and still looking at AT as he's looking with such a happy/proud look on his face the doctor continues to talk. "Alright that hearts good, now to this heartbeat" AT's face immediately goes from proud to shocked. His eyes glued to the screen, I whip my head as fast as I can. "This flicker is the second heartbeat, it's going 154, slower but a great heart rate too!" Slightly confused, I stumble over my words. "Two hearts? We're having twins?" The doctor smiles, shakes AT's hand. "Yes congratulations! And they look healthy so far! Feel free to take a few minutes and come out when your done" The doctor and nurse leave, I stare at AT nearly crying. "I was just joking, I can't believe we're really having twins!" A big smile across my face as I finish the sentence. We leave the office and sit in our car for 15 minutes or so before leaving. All we can muster to say as we look at the ultrasound pictures. "Twins?" "I was just joking." "Were going to have 2 babies?" "That was two hearts!" "Did you see their heartbeats?" "Twins!" Before our 3 hour drive is overs. We already had CR's and CP's names picked. And already adapted our nouns for twins. We already accepted and loved the fact we were having twins. Long story short! 1 year ago around 10:30am we found out we were twin parents, never in my life have I felt more complete. It was a day that completely changed our lives. I'm so happy 1 year later we got to spend the day together for the first time alone in our house without work or chores to do. A perfect way to spend the day as our family of 4.
