Lucky Me :-)

This past weekend I was organizing photos on the computer and came across some old ones from my pregnancy with Dylan and Riley. It was neat to look back and compare the difference in belly size. I would figure I'm about 4 weeks behind what I was looking like then. Which would make sense, because at 34 weeks gestation with twins, your uterus has already expanded to what a normal full term (40 wk) uterus would be like. And then to think I went another 5 weeks beyond that! I'm just thankful it all somewhat came back together.
Anyway, along with those pictures I found a few video clips from the hospital. There was a quick segment of me before the epidural, where I looked like crap and uncomfortable, then the next is after the epidural. I'm joking around with Brad, flashing the bright blue barf bag (that thankfully neither of needed to use) and giving him the "thumbs up". Man I tell ya, what a difference that epidural made... I'm certainly not afraid to ask for it again. While I was watching these clips Dylan and Riley were in the room and came running over, so I was explaining to them that, that was when they were in my tummy and I was at the hospital about to have them. They thought it was pretty cool, and pointed out that "Hey thats the bed with all the buttons we saw yesterday." So observant those two.
So then the next clip was of Dylan getting checked out and cleaned up by the nurse moments after birth. Dylan was amazed that was him so tiny... and why was he crying so loud? "I must have been cold mommy, I have no clothes" He also noticed something a little odd, "Hey whats that by my wiener?" He was talking about the umbilical cord and clip. From previous discussions he knew that, that's how a baby gets his food from mommy, but was puzzled why it looked like that, what happened to it later and why it was by his wiener? A few minutes later the video cuts to Riley, who had cried twice as loud as Dylan, which Riley quickly pointed out, "I cried louder than you Dylan." (In the midst of my tears I laughed).
What a sweet moment to share with those two... Totally unplanned and unscripted. Thankfully there wasn't anything really too difficult to explain as we watched those moments around their birth. It brought back such warm emotion, and excitement. To think that I get to do that again, and any time now. As I write, tears come to my eyes... Birth~ what a miracle, and today what precious miracles I have in my life. How was I so lucky to get 2 at once, and another sweet one 4 years later. I'm truly blessed!!

Many of you may not know the neat story of Dylan and Riley... Brad and I had been trying to get pregnant for almost 2 years, with no luck. So we decided to get "checked out". Still even after a few basic fertility tests there was no good explanation as to why we weren't pregnant yet. With that we were referred to meet with the Fertility Specialist, but had to wait 2 months for our appointment. It was during that wait we figured we couldn't really do much about any more, so whatever, we'll wait. The morning of our appointment (Dec 17th, 2003) I took a pregnancy test, just to see if by chance I was pregnant- it was negative, so off to the clinic. After he looked over our records, poked and prodded a bit he sat us down and explained the chance of us conceiving on our own is extremely small. He passed me a script for Clomid followed with instructions on how to take the pills. Talked about side effects, the schedule we'd have to coordinate for injections to make me ovulate, and time strict frames we'd be confined to, to make this work. WOW that was a lot to take in. With Brad scheduled for surgery the next day we decided to wait a month before starting all this. The next week was Christmas and I remember being sad, because all I wanted for Christmas was to be pregnant. But then on Christmas day I realized that I was 3 days late... so the next day on the our way home from Winnipeg I stopped and bought a pregnancy test, took it at my parents and it was positive! I couldn't believe it!! Here I had actually been pregnant (with TWINS) when I sat there in the Fertility clinic, listening to him say, its probably not going to happen without his help. Thankfully I never started the meds! I still have the script~ that I have put it in their scrapbook along with this story. Of course it wasn't until months later (Feb 3, 2004) that we got the surprise of a lifetime, when we found out it was twins. Who would have thought... Lucky ME!