Pregnant Momma

TWO BOYS! Oh my gosh!!!

We had our 20 week ultrasound on August 17. During a very lenghty ultrasound Dr. Ottman and the nurse checked out all of the babies' parts, counting fingers and toes, measuring their heads, checking the chambers of their hearts and all vital organs. Everything looks good and both babies appear very healthy. All of their parts are there -- especially lots of boy parts! We are now having to rethink names as Samantha no longer works. For now Dave is calling them Davey and 'the baby formerly known as Sam'. The babies each weigh about 13 oz and are about 7 inches long. And Mom is growing bigger by the day!

This baby is obviously very proud of his parts and wanted to make sure we knew he is a boy!


You can see the thin membrane between the amniotic sacs in the middle of the image. The baby on the right is facing the right, and the other baby is curled with his feet at the top. During the ultrasound we could see the left baby kicking toward the other's head!

The First Sounds From Our Babies

We had a followup visit with Dr. Ottman on July 27th at 17 weeks, and Dave tried his hardest to convince her to do another ultrasound. Instead we got to hear our babies heartbeats for the first time! Baby A (little Dave) was moving around quite a bit, and his heart rate was 163 beats per minute. Baby B (Sam) was hiding then kicked Dr. Ottman at having her space invaded. Her heart rate was 156 beats per minute. Anything between 110 and 180 is normal. They both sounded wonderful to us!

Peeking into their world

Our first ultrasound with Dr. Ottman on June 29th at 13 weeks. You can see that our babies are definitely developing, with ribs, tummies, ears, arms and legs. Actually, the majority of their organs have developed and will just grow from now on. The babies were moving around quite a bit, and they are right on target size-wise. Dr. Ottman also measured the heart beats. It is still too early to determine gender although those parts have already developed. We will have a full ultrasound at 20 weeks to count all 20 fingers and 20 toes, and to confirm our speculation that we are carrying Samantha and Dave the third.

Two weeks later and they've become babies!

We had a followup ultrasound on May 29th to make sure everything is still on track. The fetuses were definitely growing, and we were amazed to actually see baby shapes just six weeks after conception. The images of the two gestational sacs on both May 15th and May 29th are the same resolution, so you can see how much they have grown in that time. This was also the day we graduated from Dr. Gentry to a regular OB/GYN. We received hugs and congratulations from eveyone in the office; they had all been with us throughout our struggles and were equally excited that we on our way to parenthood.

And it's twins!

Dr. Gentry's office called with the news that we were definitely pregnant, and with HcG levels as high as they were they suspected we had more than one. We went in for our first ultrasound on May 15th for confirmation. Even though they look like little blobs attached to a yolk sac, their hearts are one of the first organs to develop, and they both were beating strongly -- four weeks after conception. Amazing!!!

We're finally pregnant!

On May 4, 2007 after more than 3 years of trying the stick finally turned blue! Dave immediately started calling everyone with the news, however Sandy thought it would be a good idea to get confirmation from a doctor first....