Family of Three + One pregnancy = 5??

Hi everyone! My name is Hannah Lloyd and I have an adorable family of three, my amazing husband Cameron and our precious one and a half year old daughter Aria. I will make a follow up post that goes more into detail about who we are and how we got to be where we are today. But just recently we had an experience that changed, and is continually changing our lives. Because of this I want to tell that story first.

So, I am pregnant! Exciting stuff I know. These first few weeks have been kind of strange though so I'm going to tell you a little bit about these first two months. (If you are already bored jump to the end, I'll leave a sign that it's about to get exciting).

For those of you who care and want to know how stressful the first 8 weeks of pregnancy are, keep reading. So for some who may not know a women who has a "regular" menstrual cycle (so comes like clockwork every month) by the time they have missed their period they are roughly 4 weeks pregnant. So when I missed my period I immediately took a pregnancy test. Cameron and I had Just started trying so I didn't get my hopes up too high, and I wasn't too upset when the test came back negative. But then another week went by and still no period which was strange, and my chest was extremely sore. So like any optimistic mom/mom-to-be I took another pregnancy test, and it came back negative. If I am being honest with you I had probably taken about 6-7 pregnancy tests from then until the next week. You may have guessed it but by now my period is two weeks late and I am starting to stress out. That monday I took another test and it came back positive? kind of. It was such a faint line. Now when I was pregnant with Aria sure the first positive test was super faint, but by this point I think I am roughly 6 weeks pregnant this seems strange. I finally decided I wanted to just know and stop spending my money on pregnancy tests. That day I went the the BYU health clinic and got a blood test done to see if I was, in fact, pregnant. I waited anxiously that whole day for a call back, I knew very well that it could be a day or two before I got a call but I was hopeful. The end of the day was coming, the clinic was about to close when I got a call. It was the doctor I had talked to earlier that morning and she says, "Well I hope this is good news, you are pregnant." I was so excited I called to set up an appointment with my OB right away.

My OB sets up your first appointment between weeks 8 and 10 based off of your last period because that is the only judging point they have to start out with. I was lucky enough to get in right at my 8 week mark. I was pretty optimistic about this pregnancy so far because by 6 weeks with Aria I was already so sick. An up to this point I was not feeling very sick at all yet. So we go in for the appointment at 8 weeks and they do the ultrasound to confirm a due date, see exact how the baby is forming and hear the heartbeat for the first time. We start the ultrasound and the baby looks way too small, almost like it wasn't even on the screen. This made my heart drop. I had already talked to the doctor and told him that I was just coming off birth control, he told me that that could mean I ovulated later in the cycle which could mean I wasn't as far along as we had decided. When the doctor couldn't find a heartbeat he reassured me that I am likely just at 6 weeks as opposed to 8. He was still able to measure the baby and it was measuring right at 6 weeks gestation which is a good sign that there is still a baby there just too little to hear.

We scheduled a follow up appointment for two weeks from that monday and pushed our estimated due date back two weeks. So now I have to rewind and I am back to 6 weeks pregnant. I can't be too surprised with how late I found out I was pregnant. But it is still a hard thing to think you will hear your babies heartbeat and then have to wait another two weeks with no control or knowledge of how things are going. (But this is how every pregnant woman feels with every pregnancy, its a hard waiting game).

I think my body heard the doctor say I was only 6 weeks along because like clockwork I was so sick that night. And it only got worse. I was nauseous day and night, I had even started to throw up before my next appointment which was way earlier than with Aria. Still I thought nothing of it, I was pretty sick with Aria maybe I don't remember the specifics. I did have one symptom that I thought was strangely early. I was getting sharp pains that I could only compare to round ligament pains, which I didn't get until around the second trimester the first time around. Feeling like I had done this before I knew I would just remember to ask my doctor about it on Monday and hope he had an answer. And an answer he had.

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Now we are to this weeks appointment, I am 8 weeks pregnant and the only thing I was hoping from this appointment is that we could finally hear this sweet babies heart beat, and see it on the ultrasound. We get going on the ultrasound, and our sweet doctor is all smiles which is a really good sign. He goes on to say "Well I've got some exciting news". My heart stops right as he says this. I had a gut feeling a couple months ago that as soon as we were pregnant it was going to be twins. No way is this really happening, I thought. He continues to go on and zoom in on the ultrasound screen so that we can see better. He clicks some buttons and touches on the baby and a sound wave shows up on the bottom of the screen. "Your baby has a strong heart beat." Meanwhile I am sitting there thinking "oh good, was that the exciting news?". Turns out it wasn't. Our doctor pans over on the screen to show us ANOTHER BABY. "And here is your other baby", he says so nonchalantly. He then shows us this babies heart beat, which as well is strong and healthy. I cannot control myself right now. I am shaky and happy and just trying not to loose it on this table as he is finishing up the ultrasound. I look at Cameron and he is a smiles and excited, but I can see he is freaked out as well. The doctor continues to search my uterus and makes a small comment "just looking to see if there is another on in there." He didn't find one, I don't know what I would have done if he did. Back to that one question I would make sure to ask. I asked about the round ligament pains, now thinking I know the answer but I better ask anyway, they doctor says, "Well yup, you've got two in there. I bet that makes more sense now." It did.

I am writing this post roughly a month before it will be posted. So if you are reading this look for updates shortly!

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10 week ultrasound. Babies are doing so good. I love how we can see them both here and they are in the same position.