In my first pregnancy I had a strong feeling that I was pregnant with twins
I wanted to make this story time video for any of you who may think that you're pregnant with twins or for my subscribers
Who are interested in my twin pregnancy journey,
But just can't bear to watch my haphazard inconsistent pregnancy posts from a couple years ago
So I'll get into the story
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1998 when I was a youn,g impressionable,
Little girl being bombarded in the media with all things twins. There were the Olsen twins
the Mowry twins,vThe Parent Trap had just come out with the
Little twin Lindsay Lohan's I was loving the twin craze. I was all about it
It was at that time that I decided that I wanted to be a twin
Unfortunately, it was too late for that
So I then decided that I just really wanted to have twins when I grew up
fast forward to 2015 and I am now grown and married and
Somewhat ready to start a family now if you haven't already picked up on this in my other videos
I am a
Planner before my husband and I had even come to the joint decision to start trying for the first, baby
I had already been doing my research on how to conceive how to get pregnant fast how to get pregnant with twins
Learning all of the science behind it
I was also tracking my cycle on multiple period tracker apps so that I would know exactly
When I was ovulating
So when we decided to finally start trying I was already fully prepared and knew exactly
The earliest possible date that I could take a pregnancy test
now when you buy the early predictor pregnancy test they usually have like some sort of legend or
disclaimer on it that states the
Earliest you can possibly take the test and then the percentage of time that it can detect a pregnancy that early on
I'm pretty sure the test. I took was you predict it like five to six days early
So I took the test as soon as possible
Even though on the box it said it would only be able to detect the pregnancy a fraction of the time. I
peed on the little stick as one does to determine if they are with child and
It didn't come up positive. I threw away the test. I
hadn't completely lost hope I mean, I still was taking the test as early as it could possibly
pick up a pregnancy and I went back to watching like Real Housewives of Orange County or something and
No more than two minutes after sitting back down
My breasts started tingling and I like perk up and I'm immediately like oh my god
I am pregnant and I run back to the bathroom
I pull the test out of the trashcan and I see a
faint faint tiny
little pink line
But seeing any line pop up is a positive pregnancy test
It doesn't have to be dark red and I knew that I was so excited
I immediately ran to tell my husband I was right I was pregnant and
Also just in the back of my head I was like this is super super early to get a pregnancy
Positive test. Maybe it's twins. I feel like it could be twins
okay, so the next part of this video I'm gonna be going over some of the
Pregnancy symptoms I experienced that were little indicators that is probably twins
Which the symptoms aren't great now, obviously I was so grateful to be pregnant
especially to be pregnant so easily I have lots of friends that
Had trouble conceiving and so I was beyond grateful to get pregnant so fast
Please don't take me complaining about these pregnancy symptoms as being ungrateful in any way
take it as I'm grateful to be pregnant, but I'm not super stoked about feeling physically like
Literally super early on at about five weeks pregnant. I
experienced morning sickness
aka
All-day sickness. I was sick all day
I felt like I had the flu I
was so tired exhausted
Always on the verge of throwing up
I had been super active up until this point running three to four miles a day, and I could no longer
run even
Like ten feet I was constantly on the edge of about to throw up while also
Constantly being on the edge of feeling like I was borderline
Starving. Give me all the food
Still obviously super early on first trimester of pregnancy
I was still going into work at this time
And I'd be so tired by lunchtime that I would take my hour-long lunch break and go sleep in my car
I mean
I basically felt like I had the flu for
The first several weeks of being pregnant the early positive on the pregnancy test the severe fatigue
there early tingling tenderness of my breasts just feeling like I had the flu and
Constantly being sick in my head. I just knew I must be having twins
This is not normal compared to what I see my friends or family that have been pregnant
Experienced that thought in my head kind of is what kept me going through the first trimester
Because it was really hard
I was really sick and the silver lining that I just kept thinking is it must be twins?
It must be twins. My dreams are about to come true. And I mean I know
Pregnancy is different for everyone
There are people that are pregnant with one baby who had it way worse than I did where they're it's a true medical
condition called hyperemesis where you can land in the hospital and some people have twins and they
Don't have any morning sickness or any terrible symptoms
so everyone is different but this was my experience and it seemed beyond normal and
It was just little clues and hints that it could be twins by week nine. I had made it to my first OB appointment
I was anxious to meet the doctor and hopefully learned
I was expecting twins the office unfortunately
Didn't have an ultrasound machine the nurse instead used a Doppler on my belly to listen for heartbeats. I laid down
lifted my shirt she put the little stick on my belly and
Listened for heartbeats. She reminded me that it's only nine weeks
So we may not hear a heartbeat and it's completely normal
Don't be freaked out if we don't hear anything, but we're still gonna try to pick up a heartbeat
She's looking and looking and right when she's about to give up. We hear the flutter of
One heartbeat, I was beyond excited to hear one heartbeat, especially because it was normal and healthy
Which is what is the most important but as my husband and I were leaving the office
I remember saying to him that I was a little
Sad that it wasn't going to be the twins that I always wanted or that we always wanted because he always wanted twins as well
at this point I just kind of shut down all of my
hopes and dreams of it being twins and
Was just excited to have one healthy baby on the way by week 11 the flu-like symptoms were still going
Strong and what also was just getting a little weird to me was how much weight I was gaining
I was looking online at what the normal weight gain is at this point in pregnancy
And I was well beyond that I had gained 10 to 15 pounds around this time
and my belly was starting to show I
remember calling my
parents at this point and telling them that I've already gained like 15 pounds and my belly's starting to show I'm getting excited and
My dad who has no filter
says, I think it's really early to be gaining about much waiting to be showing you're not actually supposed to be eating for -
Even though I know he was joking
It kind of was making things crop back up into my mind and think
Maybe there is a reason why things are moving so fast here
irie
googled all the information on signs that you're pregnant with twins and
Everything was aligning and I really kept thinking I got to be pregnant with twins
There's no other x nation for all of this
But I also in the back of my mind was like the Doppler only picked up one heartbeat
I don't want to get my hopes up too much. So I kind of just pushed those thoughts back down
Finally, I got to my ultrasound date. I was a little late to the game on this
I was 13 weeks pregnant. I went into the office
Hoping to just see my one healthy baby as soon as the ultrasound tech put the little wand on my belly
My husband and I immediately saw two distinct figures in my head. I knew what I was seeing
But before I could say anything the ultrasound tech said, well, there's no easy way to tell you this, but you're having twins
I immediately just burst into tears of happiness
And I looked at my husband and his jaw was on the floor and the rest is history
If that is the story of how I knew that I was having twins
I
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