Starting Kind Of Late...

Thank to Antoniette for helping me find out about this great blog site.

Hello all....

Where do I start?

Well we started trying to have a baby in Sept 2005. I guess I would say that it obviously was God's will for this pregnancy to take place. God was allowing us to catch up with most of our friends. LOL!

I told Charlene that it was all her fault for this because she had a conversation on the phone with me about how you will never have enough money, time etc...so we better get on the move. I figured she was right about that.

I know Nathan and I would have liked to have started earlier, but we wanted to have a padded savings, stable careers (haha for us) etc..etc...etc. Our "smart plan" was to try and wait to have kids until he was fully out of the Marine Corps, that way we wouldn't have worry too much about him getting called up and missing out on a lot of things. Well I guess we made it so that he would only have about 6 months left until he is out.

I figuring that I became pregnant around the 2nd or 3rd week of Oct (Kristina's Birthday maybe--haha??).
I started feeling a little weird around November time frame. I thought I actually had the flu that wouldn't go away. I just felt tired and queasy. I decided to take a prego test and it was negative. Come to find out I took it at 7 weeks and the doc said that would have been too early to tell.

I continued to feel that way and kept saying to myself that I should make an appt because I was soooo sick of feeling like this. When I was at the dollar tree one day I decided to by a 99-cent prego test because I didn't want to by another $10 test for it to be negative.

On Dec 30th, I went home and took the test. My mind was so negative about it. I was saying to myself here goes nothing....and tada, two lines showed. I examined it for a while because I thought that one from the dollar store would really be playing with my mind, one that cheap couldn't be accurate.

So I made an appt on Dec 3th with a doctor I pointed to in the Tricare directory and prayed that God would lead me to the right one. That I wouldn't have to deal with a doctor who was going to try an give me "options" one whether or not I wanted to go through with it or a doctor who believed in abortion. God did, of course, and Dr. Nickerson is a Christian. I went in the office and they had Bibles laying out everywhere and Christian children's books. He also had the Ten Commandments on the wall in the office. So that was great.

I felt like I was waiting in the room forever!! I hate going to the doctor, that part drives me crazy. You think, "why do I need an appt, I might as well walk in and wait in line." At least you would know that you were next instead of hearing the doctors voice go from room to room.

The doc comes in and says, "Mrs. Hargrave?" I say, "Nooooooo." He says," I will be right back." WRONG ROOM. So he finally gets to me after I have read every chart on the wall 15 times. He asks me why I am there and I say am waiting for a pregnancy test. He says ok and goes out of the room. MORE WAITING...I hear him wandering around looking for a nurse. I figured out I worded it wrong and he is looking for the results. Maybe he realized I had already been there for 45 minutes and that I must have already taken it. Anyway, I take a pee test and it is confirmed. So glad I didn't have to get to a paint appt that day.

He referred me to an OB near by. When I went to give 6 viles of blood, the blood test lady said,"Yer vary lucky young lady." I asked why, and she said, "Back yonder you couldn't git an OB appt to save your life in this county." "These doctors moved right in and now it's great!"

I went to my first OB appt on December 15th, 2005. It was the first time I was excited to go to the OB/GYN. After jumping through about 3 loops and driving in icy weather we made it. I get there and the receptionist tells me, "I am sorry we never got your referral." I was so mad at that point after being sent to the wrong place and showing up about 45 minutes late to my appt. I told her that it would have been nice if someone would have let me know this before we drove in icy weather! Finally I figured that I would have to take this in my own hands and call the insurance company myself. I called and the first time and they told me that my doctor never faxed one in. Then I called my doctor and they said they did and that they would again. Then I called back my insurance to find out if they got it and they said it was a 48-hour turn on this. She asked me what type of insurance I had (shouldn't she know?) and I said the reservist plan. She said, "ohhhhhhhh, you don't need a referral with that kind." I said great and finally got to see the doctor.

They sent me to the bathroom to test my sugar levels while Nathan went in the room and waited for me. I came into the room and his eyes were big and pointed to the vaginal probe used for ultrasounds. We both laughed. Why is it that guys get so nervous around things like this? It is not like they have to do anything else but cough and turn their heads, right??

So I met the Dr. Pitson and she is great. The only thing that I didn't like is that it is a practice of three doctors and you have to switch off because you could give birth with anyone who is on call. It is 2 ladies and 1 man. I don't like the man part. She starts the ultrasound and says, "Oh my!" Her and the assistant started smiling big and snickering. I wasn't sure what that meant but I figured she was going to play a trick on me because the only thing she could say was that there was more than one. She says, "Well there are two!" Nathan jumps out of his chair and says, " I knew it!" What??? He knew what??? How could he know that? It doesn't run in the blood!
Nathan said he always had a re-accuring dream that he had twin boys. Don't know about the boys yet, but we will see if it was true.

The doctor said that she has two children and they are twin girls, so that was nice to have a doctor who has actually experienced the whole sha-bang. She did make a comment that she was done after that. I can imagine. She said it was a one percent chance that twins could happen when they are not in your family, so I told her we should go buy a lottery ticket we have great odds. Just kidding, we don't even have lottery here.
Chance smance....no such thing as chance.

If you look at the ultrasound photo you can see the two little yolk sacs the babies first feed off of and that tells you there are two. She said she is almost sure they are fraternal, but can't be positive yet. She told me that I was 8 weeks along and everything was on track.

On January 10th I had my second appt which was pretty uneventful except that I got to hear the pitter patter of two little beating hearts. It was really neat to know there was really life inside of you. The baby on my left looking down had a heart rate of 150 and the baby on the right looking down had 160 bpm.

So far I have gained 8-10 pounds. Not sure on the weight because I never owned a scale until this last Christmas. If I gain a pound a week I will be right on track with the 40-45 pound range for twins. That is insane, I can't even imagine that! Where will it all go? I am just looking to have healthy non-crying all the time twins, even if I gain a lot I can always loose the weight. :)

Might have gained a couple extra on this road trip we just got back from buying Nathan's truck.
I had a bunch of trouble putting my shoes on. I said I guess I shouldn't wear thick socks with these. On the way home I looked at my feet and I screamed. I had cankles! They look like swollen balloons. I have never had this before. Nathan told me to put my feet up on a small pillow on the dash and I put some lotion on them. They went back down. We just went so far in such a short amount of time and it got to me. Too much sitting is not good for you!