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For the past few weeks Julie has felt like crap. Nausea, cramping, no appetite, no energy, moody and unable to keep down food or even water.

After the second week of this we started getting worried about potential dehydration and its negative effects on the baby (just one at this point).

We went to the ER on Sunday, June 28th, 2009 around 7pm CST and got her checked out. They took blood, urine and determined that she was slightly to moderately dehydrated so they gave her some fluids via IV and then proceeded to give her an ultrasound.

During the ultrasound the radiology technician was very vague about everything, not really explaining what I was seeing while Julie was staring at the ceiling. She was labeling all of the pictures left and right and measuring things and all that jazz. But when she did the internal ultrasound she started labeling things A & B. Yolk Sack A, Yolk Sack B, etc.

Not our babies, but exactly like what we were staring at on Sunday night.

After saying she couldn’t really get a good picture of the baby, but that the baby (still one at this point) was ok in there, she ended the ultrasound and scooted out of the room pretty quickly. I chalked it up as her being a new technician. I knew that I was seeing two rather than just seeing two different sides of the same sack. I told Julie as such and she gave me a look like “yeah right.” I guessed that maybe we were seeing a different view of the same piece of equipment or something. Whatever.

Transport takes us back to the ER and we wait for the nurse practitioner to let us know what the radiologist says.

She comes back in with a nurse a half hour or so later saying that Julie’s blood came back good, just a little low on glucose (which can be attributed to the dehydration). She then proceeded to ask Julie how she felt about having three babies.

“WHAT?!”

‘I’m just kidding.’ The NP says, ‘It’s just two. You’re having twins.’

NO FRICKIN WAY! Julie and I hug and cry a little still not grasping the severity of the fact that we are going from a one kid household to a THREE kid household.

Amazing.

We learned that we have two babies on the way, one 6 weeks and 1 day, the other 6 weeks and 3 days. Different implantation days I guess, so we’re having fraternal twins they say, not identical.

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