"The Girls"...Emily Amber and Chloe Jade




Our first picture of the girls at 6 wks. This is when we found out we were having TWO!



2 days old

July 4th was the day that I found out that I had miscarried at 9 weeks. And you know, someone always has to say, "everything happens for a reason, this is God's plan..." Who would say that to a mother who just miscarried a baby? That statement really hurt and I cried for a couple of hours, wiped my tears and went on to loving my boys even more because I was thankful to have had them. Little did I know that God did have a plan, a plan times two ahead...

James and I decided to keep trying to conceive after the go ahead from my doctor. A whopping 6 weeks later we were pregnant! The OB performed an ultrasound to make sure that the baby looked healthy because of my previous miscarriage. As the ultrasound tech moved the camera along my tummy, I noticed 2 blinking little hearts. I shrugged it off thinking that there was maybe a reflection from the camera light.

UT: Um...guess what?
Me: What?! (I thought the worse...)
UT: You are having twins!!!

1 day old

Me: Shut up. (The color must have left my face)

UT: I wouldn't lie about something like that.

Me: WOW!

I turned to James who was in shock. Our eyes must have been popping out of our heads. We hadn't even considered a possibility of having twins. There were no sets of twins in our family and we did not have any sort of hormone treatments to conceive so it wasn't even a thought in our brains.
The UT went on to say that they were identical and they may be a super high risk type called "Monoamniotic - Monochorionic twins". That is when they share their amnions, chorions and placenta which only happens in about 1% of identical twins so it is very rare and high risk. Only about 50% survival rate. We would have to wait a few weeks for our next ultrasound to determine if they are "mono-mono" or not. If they saw a dividing line between the two then they were not. Needless to say that I did a lot of praying and hoping that my two little miracles were healthy and would live to delivery day.

Chloe on the left and Emily on the right

The day came when we were to find out the fate of our babies. My heart pounded as the UT looked for the membrane dividing my twins...just as I was losing faith, she belted out, "There it is!" "Whew, thank God." I said as I let out a sigh of relief. Turns out they were "Mono-Di" twins which means that they are monoamniotic diamniotic. Which is when they share the same placenta and have their own amniotic sacs. This is also a high risk type of twins but not as rare as the mono mono type. So, we were still not out of the woods yet but we had a higher success rate behind us.
The pregnancy went extremely well to everyone's surprise. I was very well taken care of. :) There were no complications or scares of any kind. My OB was so proud of me she always said.

Chloe on the left Emily on the right

The big question on everyone's mind was, was it 2 girls or 2 boys making our family a family of FIVE boys! I was hoping for girls but would be ecstatic at having 5 boys. I love my boys and love their fearlessness and adoration for their mommy. :) At my 16th week of being preggers, we found out that we were in fact having 2 beautiful little girls. I broke into tears, at that moment I knew that our family was complete. I was floating on a cloud. It was time to go shopping!! LOL
I made it to 36 weeks to the day which was just about full term for mono di twins. I was scheduled for a c-section at 36 weeks, 4 days.

Left: Emily, Right: Chloe

It was a Saturday, I had gotten up and had mustered up enough energy to make breakfast. I went all out, french toast, eggs, bacon, coffee and orange juice. We decided to take a trip to the store to buy new Wii games for the boys (which was quite a treat because they RARELY play that thing, I don't like it). I wobbled into my room to get dressed to leave. Then, my water broke! I yelled for James but he was outside so Jordan came running in to see what was wrong. He came in with wide eyes asking me how my water broke?
Jordan: WHAT broke? (looking at my stomach)
Me: my water, (trying to be calm) go and get daddy please.
Jordan: Did you fall? Did you break your bones?
Me: No honey, the babies are coming and you need to get daddy. (laughing)
Jordan: WHAT?! The babies are coming? From where?! (looking at the ceiling then the floor)
Me: (Ok I'm dying laughing now, you should have seen his face, he was seriously horrified) Sweetheart, just go get daddy please.
He ran off outside to get daddy...
Jordan: Daddy! Mommy's tummy broke!
James: Ok Jordan. (Shrugging it off because he was talking to our neighbor over the fence.)
Jordan: DADDY!! DADDY!!
James: (still ignoring him)
Jordan ran inside to tell me that Daddy was not listening to him. At this point I'm getting pissed because James is no where to be found. So I tell Gavin to tell Daddy that my water broke. I was able to explain it him a little better but he too was confused.


Jordan and Gavin holding Chloe

 James ran in and he immediately called my MIL to come over and off we went to the hospital.
I was so excited to finally get to see my 2 little angel girls!

Proud Daddy with his girls!

When we arrived at the hospital, I told them what I had eaten just an hour and a half earlier. The nurses said that since I had eaten that I would have to wait 8 HOURS to have my surgery, WITHOUT DRUGS! WTH!? I was very disappointed and terrified but, what could I do? The girls were not having it. The contractions became more intense and closer together. I was given medicine to stop the contractions but it didn't work. I had epiderals with the boys so I had no idea how painful labor was. Kudos to those of you women who have babies without drugs! I couldn't handle it, and well didn't have to, they were delivered naturally. 6 hours pass and one of the nurses came in to check on me. I told her that I was in a lot of pain so she checked me and said, "OH MY! I feel a little foot or hand!" I was whisked off to the OR and prepped for surgery. I was freaking out because James had left an hour earlier to wrap up a job his employees were working at that day. We all thought that we had a few hours to go until he had to be back since surgery was scheduled later that day. So, he rushed back to the hospital and made it just in time. 

Me ready for surgery!

As I entered the OR the bright white walls, shining lights and team of doctors was extremely frightening. I was scared, nervous and excited all at the same time. James was let in after I got my "epidural on steroids". He stroked my hair as the docs performed my c-section. I was so relieved and delighted when I saw "Twin A" who we named, Chloe. Her cry was too dang cute! I instantly fell in love with that little girl. Then 2 minutes later "Twin B" who we named, Emily was delivered. She did not want to come out of mommy's tummy! She held on for dear life the doctor said. :) James and I were so relieved that the girls were healthy, crying babies. I felt that immense love that a mother feels the second their baby is born, well, times two.



Ryry holding his baby sister for the first time!