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*NOT OUR DOCTOR’S PARKING SPOT – A MERE REPRESENTATION*

Well on July 8th we saw our general practitioner for the first time for this pregnancy.
The “prenatal visit” they tell me.

I don’t really remember all that poking, prodding and depressing conversation when we were there for our first child.
It seemed besides the initial excitement felt on our end and our continuing worry about managing a house with twins and an older brother, we have a truckload of bigger things to worry about.

Most importantly is the first 12 weeks. If the twins survive to 12 weeks inside the womb, their chances of survival make a huuuuge jump. If you were talking with your hands, you go from “weeeee chances” before 12 weeks to “yay chances” after 12 weeks.
So rather than convincing Julie to take a complete bedrest and avoid work altogether, our doctor put it out there that regular life and activities can continue but to put EATING, DRINKING FLUIDS and REST at the top of the list of things to do today, and tomorrow and for the next 4 weeks.

What I also thought was a pretty cool thing to say, our doctor made the comment that the prenatal vitamin CAUSES NASEUA, so in this case, since Julie has already been to the ER for dehydration and a nice little “HEY YOU’RE HAVING TWINS” moment, fluids and foods outweigh the necessity for the prenatal horsepills. So if you have to choose between pukey pukey and yummy yummy slurp slurp, go for the yummy slurps and foresake the pukey.

In addition to some simple counseling about the safety of our unborn twins and encouraging Julie to take the Zofran in case of emergency, we were also informed that we would no longer be seeing our general practice doctor for the remainder of the pregnancy. “I do singletons.” The doctor told us.

In a bizarre and morbidly blunt tone he said: “If you happen to lose one, then you’ll come back and see me.”

Coming from a family where the law of attraction and the belief that positive thinking is quite powerful, I don’t care to harbor such negative ideas, but I appreciate the sentiment.

The doctor continued to tell us that he WILL be in the delivery room, but not as quaterback as he was during our son’s birth.

So we learned a few things:

• Our due date is now February 16th, 2009
• We will be seeing a team of OBs (three to be exact) so on the day of delivery we will have an OB that knows all about Julie’s vajayjay and the state of our twins’ health
• This pregnancy is considered High Risk, so we will be going back to see our High Risk doctor from Julie’s last pregnancy on a regular basis

p.s. I always wanted to use vajayjay as a post tag! HAHAHAH!

photo credit: Dylan Luder
Let the hating commence!

Updated list of the things wifey hates today!

1. ANYONE’s breath, still
2. Our garage. Period.
3. Fresh cut grass
4. Infant poop
5. Bonfires within range
6. MSG, Aspartame & High Fructose Corn Syrup, still. (Read about MSG here!!)
7. Roadkill
8. The smell of fresh tar on pavement
9. Water, still.
10. Max & Ruby on Noggin.

Join us next time as I jot down the things that wifey hilariously hates while preggers with my two new babies.

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.

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.

Welcome to HavingTwinsNOW dot com.
My name is Joel. I live outside Chicago, IL with my wife Julie and our toddler son.
Julie & I just found out this morning that we are having twins.

We have friends and family all over the United States & Mexico and decided that in order for us to keep ourselves organized and our friends and family updated, we would try and document all of our questions, concerns, ideas and experiences here..

Please check in with us often to see how Julie and the babies are doing through gestation and birth!

Joel

p.s. Use the categories to the right or scroll down to read about our process through Julie’s twin pregnancy.