First Ultrasound with a Big Surprise!

Our first ultrasound was in the afternoon of April 22. I was 6 weeks 4 days pregnant. This is about how it went...

We waited, impatiently, for them to call us back to the room. The ultrasound technician Teri (I don't think I will ever forget this woman) was very nice. About thirty seconds into the ultrasound, I was still trying to decipher what I was looking at. Then Teri nonchalantly asked me, "Do twins run in your family?" Without thought to the situation I was currently in or the question she asked, I nonchalantly replied, "Yes actually. I have twin cousins on my mom's side" (as if this was just casual conversation). Teri then said, "Well...there are definitely two babies with two beating hearts." My reaction was to yell, "What?!!???!" John's reaction was to laugh and then ask, "Seriously?" Then magically on the screen there appeared two sacs with two little babies the size of a piece of rice with fluttering heartbeats. I was shocked into silence...then experienced overwhelming emotion. Teri began measuring away and told us both babies were .25 cm with heart rates around 115 beats per minute. John and I just kept looking at each other and laughing. We walked out of the doctor's office in total and complete shock. We went home, picked up our dog Bailey, and drove to Kingwood to tell our parents. They too were absolutely speechless, but then overwhelmed with happiness. The next day we received a bouquet of flowers from my parents with a card that read, "The more the merrier." This is now the mantra in the our household.