This is Catch Up

For many of you, you are aware that it took Dwayne and I a bit of an effort to get to this point on our journey of Parenthood.

From the moment we started till the day we were successful it was 2 yrs, 2 months and 3 weeks. Not that long for some, but eternity for us (well me anyway :)).

But alas, after many tests, surgeries, more tests, medical procedures, needles and of course the final and last blood draw confirming it all here we sit "Pregnant".

Here's the official proof and the shot that changed our world at 11 weeks and 1 day...our first glimpse that life was going to forever change, perhaps a bit more than we had thought in the first place...this is at 11 weeks, 1 day.

If you can't tell from the photo, we're expecting TWINS!!

As of today (August 24) we are 13w2d...or for those of you who prefer to count in months...we've just squeaked past our 3 month mark.

So far the whole ordeal has been relatively mild (considering I have two parasites/tumors or however you want to look at it, feeding off of me). I've had more food adversions rather than any type of nausea so I consider myself lucky on this. Just recently (in the last few days) I've started with mild cravings. Nothing major...pizza from a box (Kraft like when we were kids), a pepperoni/ketchup sandwich) but it sure beats running through all the food items I can think of and discarding them one by one as "not desirable".

So far Dwayne's been handling it pretty well...typical I think for the male species. He says he needs more sleep (due to couvade, or sympathy symptoms) and hasn't exactly catered to me that much (though yesterday while out he did pick me up some chocolate milk...but since he was already out, does it really count??).

As for the babies? We currently refer to them as Baby A and Baby B. Baby A is sitting closer to the cervix so any reference between the two implies that Baby A will be the older of the two.

Baby A is measuring a bit bigger than Baby B. Its not so much that Baby B is small, rather Baby A is big for his/her gestation date. My guess at this point is Baby A is definitly a girl...but I'm certain there's a boy in there somewhere so I'm pegging Baby B as the boy. We should (fingers crossed) know both genders in and around our 16 - 18 week u/s so right now we can fantasize however we want...some days when Dwayne's being a pain, I fantasize they're both girls. Ha, that'll serve him for even thinking life from here on in will be easy ;).