Pregnancy Week-by-Week: 9

July 8, 2009 at 3:59 PM by Cafe Cynthia - Comments (5)

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I knew my body. It had been 28 days since my last period. So I called my sister-in-law, and she brought over a dollar store pregnancy test. I didn't think it would be positive because I had just missed AF by ONE day, but BAM! Dark as night was the line. I cried, laughed, and cried. 

I had severe morning sickness at five weeks. I threw up probably 30 times a day. I went to the ER, I was so dehydrated. They gave me fluids and I went home, and went on Zofran, a nausea medicine, the next day. About 10 days later, I was back in urgent care. I was still vomiting several times a day. They ordered me to the ER for tests.

The nurse there says, "We need to rule out a twin pregnancy." I laughed at her. There are no twins in my family or my husband's, I said, so you go ahead and check. The tech puts the ultrasound thingie on my tummy. I see something strange -- TWO big bubbles! I said, "That looks like two." She nods, smiles and tells me I shouldn't be able to read an ultrasound.

But she warns me it could just be a shadow, and proceeds with an internal. The two bubbles are still there. Then I see there are two heartbeats! OMG TWINS! I must have said that a million times. I was spinning, all kinds of thoughts going through my head ... Donnie is not going to believe me ...  Donnie is going to divorce me ... five kids?!

I called Donnie a while later to break the news.

"You know that thing they sent me to the ER to check?" I said, reminding him of our earlier conversation about ruling out twins.

"Yeah?" he said.

"Well, YEAH!"

Then I could hear that weird smile on him. It was a priceless day.

Catch up with what's happening with our prior calendar mama Brittany, aka bam61907, in her Weekly Pregnancy Calendar.

And check back next week for Kim's latest developments ...

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