Unexpected Ultrasound

When I had my appointment in August, the doctor checked for the heartbeats. She found one right away but had trouble keeping the device on and finding the other heartbeat. Matt was not there for the majority of this (he was late because he got confused on when the appointment was and when he needed to leave work). I started to panic. Just a month ago I found out that these precious babies are both in there and now I can't imagine life without both of them. I go from complete shock of even the concept of twins to now being so worried that one might not have made it. It is amazing to me how much I already love these two children that I have not met yet and how protective I have become over them. I was about to start crying when Matt arrived. He only had to endure the search for the other one for a few minutes. For me it felt like an eternity.

The doctor decided to go get her portable ultrasound machine to try to find the other baby. She did not seem worried but to me that meant that something could be wrong. Matt did his best to calm me down, but until I could hear that heartbeat nothing was going to take away my fear that one could be gone. Even now, the thought of it makes me cry.

The baby is there! The baby had a strong heartbeat. The baby was not moving as much as the other one, but still the doctor talked positivity about both and where they are positioned and how things look in their little world that my body is creating for them. God is amazing.

Even though I would have preferred to have not gone through that experience, I am grateful for technology the unexpected blessing of being able to see my babies again. They had sweet little faces and noses and I could see fingers and hands. It is so amazing that we have the technology today to see what God is creating inside of a woman's body. It is even more amazing how perfectly God has created the developmental process.

Here is what they babies looked liked at 14 weeks.

I can't wait to see how much my babies have grown at the next ultrasound!