August 22, 2017

Diclegis has been my best friend for the last week. It has taken the edge off of my morning sickness. I still get queasy but I’m able to function unlike before. Before I felt like I was walking around with the stomach flu. I couldn’t keep anything down, was running to the bathroom every 30 minutes, and was really achy… I thought I was dying. I mentioned it to my nurse as she was taking blood last week and she said she would give me the Diclegis to see if that would help. It was at this same appointment that we found out we were having twins and the nurse then said, “No wonder you’re miserable, you’re having two.” It’s nice to know that I’m having these symptoms for a reason and I will never take it for granted but man is it uncomfortable!

My next appointment will be August 31st at 11:00am. We’re doing an 8 week ultrasound. There we’ll get to see the babies’ heartbeats again and measure them to make sure they’re still growing like they should. I always get really nervous before doctor appointments because of course I don’t want to know if there’s something wrong. Luckily nothing has come up yet. My Dr. said at 6 weeks we have a 93% chance of having a healthy twin pregnancy and once we hit week 8 our chances of miscarriage goes down to 1%. I’m praying week 8 comes quickly! I’m 7w2d right now and actually I’m waiting for the dr. office to call me back with my blood work results from this morning. Nerve wracking to say the least. It’s times like these that I’m so glad I have a full time job to keep my mind occupied and I don’t have time to dwell on the what if’s.

I told my pastor this past Sunday that we were having twins and he’s just ecstatic (he also has twins my age). He told me “now that is a hospital visit I can’t wait to make!” At this point we haven’t told too many people. By the time this gets posted on my blog we’ll be well into the pregnancy and the announcement will have been made but for now I like that only a very small group of people know. It’s one of the most fun secrets to have.