For MOMs by MOMs: My Story

My name is Jennifer and I have b/g twins who just turned 1.  They are precious and the absolute joy of my lives.  My husband coaches football and I am a nurse.  We live in the Texas panhandle and absolutely love it here!! (minus the wind of course)  I am involved in my MOMs group here and it is such a blessing.  I am so excited about what these girls have set up for us online...other MOMs are by and far some of the best resources around.

I sometimes feel weird sharing my story with other twin moms b/c I wasn't taking meds, we hadn't been trying forever, or anything like that.  It's those times that I feel almost guilty, but I have to remind myself that God blessed us with twins and it was his choice for us to be parents to twins.  I have ALWAYS thought it would be cool to have multiples.  When Billy and I got married, we agreed that we were going to wait a little while and get some debt paid off before we started trying for kids.  The summer of 2010 we decided that we were ready to start trying.  I was SUPER anxious about even trying to get pregnant just b/c I had read so many stories of people that it took years to have a baby, and I wanted so badly to be pregnant.  To top it off, we were working on a time crunch...Once we decided we were ready, we sat down and looked at a calendar and decided that we would start trying in August b/c that would give us a May baby.  You're probably thinking we were a little obsessed with timing, but in our defense, you have to be when you are involved in the world of college football.  My husband's busy season is from August 1 to April 30 and I wanted him around as much as possible when our kids were teeny tiny, so a due date in May, June or July was going to be our best choice.  I was nervous waiting until August to start trying b/c what if it didn't happen in that 3 month time window, then what were we going to do.  Little did I know...God had it all figured out.  We tried in August, and August 28th I had a positive pregnancy test.  I was super excited and called the next day to set up my first appointment with my OB...only to be VERY disappointed to find out it wouldn't be until OCTOBER!!!!  Are you kidding me...who makes a pregnant lady wait that long to confirm that a baby is okay...especially a nurse who works in NICU from time to time.  (I primarily work in the Pediatric ICU, but we occasionally float over to the NICU to help out.)  I had a fabulous pregnancy and really felt pretty great, however, I had to buy maternity pants @ 8 weeks and I lost 23 pounds the first trimester...now mind you, I was overweight to begin with and needed to lose weight, and in June of that same year, I had gone to a completely vegan diet and had been losing weight b/c of that.  I did call my doctor once and ask about the weight loss and the nurse told me that as long as I wasn't puking (which I never did...) not to worry about it.  We went in for my first OB appointment and when he put down the ultrasound wand, I immediately saw two little heart beats.  My most vivid memory from that day is sitting in our truck afterwards and just laughing.  I never cried about it, but boy did my husband and I spend lots of hours laughing about the fact that we were having twins.  I loved watching every one's faces when I told them we were having twins.  The looks of shock were the best! 

I had a great pregnancy and made it to 39 weeks when I had a planned c-section.  My doctor is almost certain I would have made it to 40 weeks, but he told me since I had been such a good patient that he would let me have them @ 39 weeks...for that I was very thankful. 

I have loved most every minute of being a mom of twins.  There are times where I could pull my hair out, but then there are times that they are being so cute that make me forget about the crazy times.  I can't believe that my babies are a year old, but I so look forward to what the next year brings.