24 Weeks

So....This past Friday we made it to our 24 week mark. A huge milestone in our pregnancy.  Our little girls can now survive life outside of the womb.  As much as we want to see them, we will wait a few more months until they are bigger and stronger.  Our next big marker will be 30 weeks. Until then, Amanda is taking it easy, resting when she gets home, putting her feet up.  Her ankles are starting to get a wee bit puffy in the evenings when she gets home, mostly do to getting bigger and the dang arkansas heat.  She is doing a water aerobics class called aqua moms on mondays and wednesdays over at baptist hospital and is really enjoying it.

Last Thursday we went to our OBGYN Doc and got to hear our girls heartbeats again. Baby A was in the 150's and baby B was in the 140's.  We are actually starting to go every 2 weeks to her now so she can keep an eye on everything.  We have an appt. this Wednesday with BabyViews in little rock for our 4D ultrasound. We can't wait!  Then, we get to turn around and see the babies again the next day for another formal ultrasound to check and see how they're growing.

We have officially decided on the names I do believe.  We have gone with Davin Kate and Emma Grace. Davin Kate is a mixture of our Dads names. Both of our dads are named David, and now that amandas dad passed away it's really important that we incorporate that into one of our kids names.  The middle name, Kate, is short for my middle name of Katherine.  My mom and dad always called me Kate or Katy growing up.  Emma was for my great aunt Emma on my dads side, and Grace, for my great grandmother Gracie on my moms side. 

Almost 22 weeks!

Well.....This Friday we will be 22 weeks! The time has flown by. Amanda has been doing great and getting bigger in the belly region. lol. Over the past 2 weeks I've really been able to feel them move with Amanda. They sure are squirmy little bucket heads.  The other night I laid my head on her belly and Baby B kicked me on the cheek. What a sweetheart ;)  It's amazing to me how fast they develop and are able to do things inside the womb. They're wombmates. ha.  We're going to Lexington this weekend to visit my family and spend time for the fourth. We're really looking forward to it and will probably be our last trip there until the girls are here.  The picture with this post was taken last sunday night. 21 weeks 2 days.

19 Weeks! and......2 GIRLS!!!!

We are having twin girls!!! How cool is that? Sisters. Best Friends for life. We are way excited and so blessed.  I can't wait to spoil all my girls  ;)  We had our formal ultrasound on friday which showed us that we are having 2 girls! The tech that did the US was super nice and very knowledgeable. She showed us everything! We counted fingers and toes and saw the four chambers of both hearts and listened to them.  Baby B, she was the bigger one with a heartbeat of 153 and weighing 11 ounces.  Baby A, her heartbeat was 144 and she weighed in at a whopping 10 ounces.  These babies are almost a pound a piece! Hard to believe!  Now we can start referring to them as baby girls.  I'm pretty sure B girl was waving at her momma in the womb, then she started sucking her thumb again.

17 Weeks 5 Days

This picture was taken last Friday, which would put Amanda at 17 weeks exactly.

Also, our cribs came in and we decided that we wanted to room blue, pink and green. I was busy over the holiday weekend. 

Almost 18 weeks!

Man, everything has just flown by.  We saw our doctor again and went to our friend Becca for an ultrasound.  They were so much more active this time around and actually looked like babies. Little people. 2 more. A family. Ours.  I love them so much already!  Becca said she would put money on one of them being a girl so now we can refer to one of them as our sweet little girl.  The other one, wanted to sit indian style and play duck duck goose the whole time. That naughty little turkey.  We're going to go see Becca again this Friday to see if we can tell what baby B is. Amanda will be 18 weeks then so a better chance of telling.

This has been an incredible journey and the most difficult stuff I've ever gone through.  Almost 3 years ago, we were on our way back from the beach in SC with a plan to start trying for our family in September.  We saved, and saved and saved for that moment.  That moment came, and went, and came again, and went.....finally last June at the beach we found out that we were pregnant only to get home and have the reality hit us like a brick.  It was a chemical pregnancy.  Soon after in August our lives were turned upside down with another positive pregnancy! First Appt. went well with a flicker only to go in on the 8 week appt and find out that flicker was no more.  D&C and 3 months later, we were given the all clear to try again.  First 2 tries after, nothing.  Finally February was the month.  Amanda had to go to work with me due to the blizzard we were having at that time.  She arrived at the office at her shceduled appt. time to find out our "specimen" had not arrived yet and was on a truck somewhere in Little Rock.  2 hours later and 2 hours after her scheduled IUI, it arrived.  Must have been our lucky day and time. Two ovulated eggs and two weeks later we got a positive. Two weeks after that, twins on ultrasound.

We Love you 2 already and can't wait to see you on ultrasound again!

For the YouTube links from our visit with Becca follow this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwDxKjLO-o4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEebV6DmVkw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-FdtWek_8Y&feature=related

12 Week Appt.

Well............We went to the Dr this past Monday and it went really well.....Baby B is the wiggle worm while Baby A was alot more chill.  It was so amazing to see them move around.  Some days I still don't believe it.  Were so ready to be parents! I did manage to shoot a little video of the little guys at the ultrasound. You can find it on youtube at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9YzkgQr2dg

We don't go back to the Dr. until May 23, but time seems to be flying by so that should be here in no time.:)

Our first Appt. with the OBGYN

So, Monday we had our first appt. with our OBGYN and everything went really good.  We are going to Dr. Amy Weidower and just love her.  We had our second ultrasound and saw our little pumkpins for the second time. Man, they have grown so much over the past 2 weeks.  The hearts beating on the screen were just amazing to me.  We were there for 2 hours and of course had lots of questions and she talked to us about everything.  She told us she would for sure do a c-section at 38 weeks, if amanda can make it that far. That would put us at around Oct.24th for an expected delivery date, for the time being. I know we will both be taken good care of at Baptist.  I've got my favorite nurses, crna's, and anesthesia doc all on board for the delivery, so that makes me feel a little less anxious about the delivery. Just a little bit.  Amanda has been feeling pretty good lately, just really tired. As soon as she walks in the door it's on the couch and resting for a bit first thing, then up and around do things.  Overall, we are both so excited! Here are a few pics from Monday!