Wow, I can't believe that at this time last year we had just gotten the call from our clinic stating we were a go for our first IVF cycle (after almost 5 years of trying). I was to find out on 10/9/03 if the 1st IVF cycle worked, but DH & I cheated & took 5 HPT (Sunday night, Monday night, Tuesday Night, Wednesday morning & Wednesday late morning....YUP it was crazy). We got the best news later on the day of the 9th stating we were PG (our Ann. is on the 10th...WHAT A BLESSING). I remember going in @ the end of Oct. for them to do the first US. We knew there was a chance of twins, but since they only put TWO embryos I didn't want to get my hopes up. Well plan as day when she was doing the US we saw both sacks.....WOW what a feeling. After the US we went to meet the Dr. & he said that he NEVER would have guessed we were going to have twins by my levels. Then almost the whole month of November & 1/2 the month of December I bleed....for no reason. My IVF Dr. said were going to loose on of the babies....
I went in on 5/18/04 for my weekly appointment. I was dialed to a "strong 3". I was 36 weeks on the nose. My Dr. was going on vacation for a week & a half leaving in two days. DH & I decided to go walking to see if that would start anything up. We walked for 3 hours & I was having contractions about 3-4 minutes apart. DH was hungry so we stopped @ BK. By the time he was done eating they were between 2-3 minutes apart, so we headed over to the hospital. We were admitted @ 2:30. My Dr. came to see me @ 3:00 (dialed to a 4). He broke my water. By 6:30 I was calling for the EPI (WOW, what a drug!!
) They wheeled me into the operating room (in case I couldn't go vaginally). Hope was born @ 10:44 weighing 4pds 12oz, 17.5 inches long & Brady was born @ 10:52 weighing 4 pounds 9 oz, 17.25 inches long. They were able to come into the room w/ me that night, but the next day they were brought down to the NICU (Brady wasn't keeping his temp up & they both had not taken to the breast or a bottle). Hope was in the NICU for 8 days & Brady was 11 days.
They are doing SO great now!! I still can't believe how we have been bless!!
Deb