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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 been fighting naeusa, fatigue and hormonal swings way up and way down.

Now that we KNOW what is causing it it’s a little less scary because there isn’t some underlying reason why life just sucks right now.

Granted, there isn’t much that I can do as a husband besides cater to her needs and let her get her rest. It just blows ass with this being a holiday weekend and plans with family and friends already set up that she has to stay on the couch or in bed all weekend.

We all know “This too shall pass” but right now, I wish there was a hell of a lot more than gatorade and hugs I could offer.

I just wanted to jot down the things she hates right now:

1. ANYONE’s breath
2. The smell of our garage (lawnmower & gasoline)
3. Food she isn’t eating
4. The smell of our son after having spaghetti at daycare
5. The smell of me after work (I smell like a vitamin)
6. MSG, Aspartame & High Fructose Corn Syrup
7. Banana popsicles
8. Popsicles that aren’t Root Beer flavored
9. Water
10. Food
11. Her prenatal vitamin
12. Food Commercials on TV all day long
13. Poop

I’m sure this list will continue to grow, and I look foward to her reading it once she’s normal again.

photo credit: Mr.Thomas

SHE WILL BE NORMAL AGAIN WONT SHE?

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.

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.