This blog was set-up to keep our friends and family informed of what is going on in our lives. We recently found out that we are having twins, and wanted to share all the details of the past 3 amazing months! It all started after about a year of trying to get pregnant. Since I travel for work, we had to really plan the timing so we would be in the same city during the right days :) So, labor day 2009 seemed like the perfect option since we were already planning to take a few days off to spend with the Purcell's in Cleveland.
I arrived on Wednesday evening from St. Louis and Mom and Dad picked me up at the Cleveland airport. The next day we were planning on heading to Cedar Point. Eric didn't come because he's not a big roller coaster fan. We met up with Aunt Tracie and Uncle Chuck and rode every single ride multiple times. It was so fun (and I think it helped knock multiple eggs loose). We then spent the weekend with Drew, Keri, Jack, Joel, Mom and dad. It was a wonderful weekend with the whole family!
Three weeks later I headed to Portland Oregon for my annual company conference. It just happened that I needed a blood test on day 21, and I was in Portland for this particular blood test. The doctor called me during one of my meetings on Thursday morning and informed me that my Progesterone level was 65. I was informed that anything above 10 is a good sign that ovulation occurred, and anything above 40 is a good indicator of pregnancy! I immediately called Eric at work, and we were both very cautiously excited as this is not the "true" indicator of pregnancy.
I flew home on a red eye that Saturday and Eric met me at home after a late night in Atlantic City with his friend Jay. We were very excited, and decided to take a nap, then a pregnancy test! I let Eric go in and "read" the test, and he came out disappointed saying it was "negative". Once I looked at the test though, and saw the faint line, I disagreed with his assessment! You be the judge!
We went online and saw that any faint line could mean pregnancy! We immediately went to dunkin donuts to celebrate and he told the guy behind the counter that I was pregnant! We decided since it was still a few days before you can really tell, that we would keep it very quiet (except for the donut guy, of course!)
I took about 6 more tests over the next week with all of them being consistently darker lines to indicate pregnancy! We were very excited and Eric made some shirts for us to wear to show our friends and family.
When I arrived that Thursday home from St. Louis, we headed straight to our friend's the Mangin's. Monica and Eric have been very supportive friends praying for us over the past year as we continued our journey to get pregnant. To trick them, I called Monica and told her that the test was negative and I was so disappointed, but little did she know that we were at the door with our shirts on! They were so happy for us, and they gave us some great advice as we continued on through the first trimester!
The next people to tell were Eric's Parents. We decided to have them come up to our condo, then head to dinner. Before we left, Eric acted like he was playing with the camera, and told them we wanted a pic of them with me! He took the first pic, then for the second, he said "SAY LINDSEY'S PREGNANT"... you can see the reactions below!
The next stop was Northern Kentucky to tell my parents. Earlier in the week, Eric did a lot of research and found a way to use my miles to fly to Cincinnati to surprise them. Joel was very helpful in planning how to surprise them as he was moving into his new house that weekend. He was able to get them at the right place at the right time, which was tricky since our flight was delayed in Chicago. Once we finally got there, we were so excited to walk up to the door with our shirt's on! Dad saw the shirts right away, and it took mom a couple minutes to digest exactly why we were there!!!
We had our first OBGYN appt a couple weeks later. Everything was going very well. She asked the usual questions, then did her examination. She said that I felt "big" for 6 weeks, and wanted me to get an ultrasound. I told her that I was flying out later that day, and would probably need to have it done in a week or 2. She didn't like that idea, and wanted me to go immediately to get the ultrasound. Luckily they were able to fit us in, and this was the moment we learned it was twins!
We immediately called both our parents to share the wonderful news! We were both in shock at first, but felt very blessed with the news! Over the next several weeks we shared the good news with more friends and family with the new "twins" shirt below and everyone was very excited to hear about the new additions. Thanks Monica for helping me with this craft as I am not very good at this kind of stuff!
At 13 weeks we had another appointment, and they did another ultrasound. My mother-in-law Peggy got to come along and see since Eric couldn't get off of work since it was the day before Thanksgiving. The pictures they gave us were amazing. We got the hear both heartbeats, and they both looked very healthy! They were moving around the entire ultrasound, and we got 17 pics to show Eric since he couldn't be there in person!
Thanks for joining us on this journey, we are so excited to share it with each and every one of you!!
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