Hello Second Trimester!

Hi everyone!  It feels like it has been forever since I have posted on here.  It feels so weird to go from checking in on me and having appointments pretty much every other day to not hearing anything for 3 weeks at a time.  I must say I am not a fan.  The last time I had an ultrasound at 11 weeks the doctor said we would not need another one until our 18 week anatomy scan!!  I have spent the last 2 weeks wondering if everything is going okay.. I haven't had any bleeding or cramping or anything, but since it was twins I was nervous that I would only get symptoms from one and not know if both were doing okay.  I think I am just so used to being babied at NFC, plus I am used to things going wrong (thanks 3 unsuccessful years of fertility treatments..), plus after so many years it is hard to convince yourself you are actually pregnant without hard evidence for reassurance!! So all of these things led to a frantic call to my doctor begging him to do another ultrasound to make sure everything is progressing appropriately.  He said that was fine, but he wasn't sure insurance would cover it.  What's $225 for my sanity?! Just add it to the $40,000 these babies have already racked up. 
So today we went for the ultrasound!  We found out that they are opposites already.  One baby is super chill.. he was kicked back, stretched all the way out, with his legs crossed and arms over his chest.  Just stick a tv in there and he would be good to go.  The other baby was literally turning flips so much that the doctor could not even keep the heart monitor on her!! He said she was quite the gymnast.  That is probably the little stinker that makes me so nauseous!  It was so cool to see the heads, bodies, arms, legs, even little fingers and toes.  The doctor said they seem to like laying butt-to-butt.  I wonder if they will do that after they are born.. Heartbeats today were 158 and 155, so a lot slower than last time!  Probably because I have cut back so much on caffeine.  Anyway, everything is fine (praise God) with both of them, despite my crazy paranoia!  Our next ultrasound will be our 4d to find out the genders.  We go on October 16th, then will have our big gender reveal party on the 18th. 
Here is a picture of our babies!! The one on the top right is the lazy, low key one, while the one on the bottom left is the wild child!! We could only catch the top of her head mid-flip!! Then there is another one of the relaxed child, where you can see little arms and legs :-)

11 Week Ultrasound

Hey Everyone!! Sorry for the late post (again) but in addition to being newly pregnant, we are also moving houses! So today was our first appointment with our regular OB and it was quite the roller coaster..
I left work early to drive all the way to Gallatin for our appointment.. we basically toured the entire hospital before we finally found the women's center.  A nurse helped us find it, but on the way she said "You said Dr. Holt is your doctor?  She isn't here today...." So of course I get all stressed out and plan to cuss out the poor woman at the front desk for messing up my appointment.  Come to find out, my doctor apparently didn't come today and they tried to call me but had my phone number wrong!! They said they could "work me in" with a doctor who was about to do a c-section in the next 20 minutes.  So at this point I am happy to be seen but aggravated at the situation and really wishing I could be back with my people at NFC!!
Finally we get to go back! The nurse weighs me and writes down 153 instead of 135 which I QUICKLY corrected.. then she starts going on and on about all of these tests we are doing today and asking me a million questions.  She obviously did not read my chart, which clearly stated I have already completed ALL of these tests.  Then she tells me we are just going to do a pap smear and bloodwork and be done. No ultrasound... which I have waited and agonized about for 3 weeks.  At this point I am trying really hard not to cry and Will is looking like he is about to punch this girl in the face.....
A different doctor comes in and seems like he has actually read my chart.  He starts asking me a bunch of questions and I answered them with quite a bit of attitude.  Then he said "Do you have any questions for me?" and I said "Um, yes.. if we are not doing an ultrasound I need to leave and go to another doctor because I have already done all of these stupid tests.  So are you going to bring me to the ultrasound room or not?" ... After he got over his initial shock, he said he would take me to do an ultrasound today and then look over my charts from NFC, and let me know if I need to come back next week for more tests.  This whole ordeal wasted about 15 minutes and got my hormones all flustered so I am so ready to see my babies!!
Now for the happy part :-)  After the embarrassment of almost taking my underwear off for what I thought would be a transvag ultrasound (It's all I ever had!!! Thank God he didn't notice) he out the gel on my belly and we got started.  The office had a big TV screen to watch and it was the first ultrasound I could actually enjoy because I wasn't in excruciating pain from the transvag one.  We saw the two heartbeats right away, as well as their little arms and legs.  Neither of them care for ultrasounds too much.. they kept flipping away from it so it was hard to get good pictures.  Baby A heartbeat was 178 and baby B 180.  Both measured perfect!  He said our next ultrasound would be at 20 weeks for an anatomy scan, but we have a 4D one scheduled at 16 weeks (Oct. 16th) during fall break, so we can have a big gender reveal party that Saturday :-)
So, overall today was a pretty emotional appointment.  Being shuffled around and forgotten about and not listened to is definitely NOT something I am used to, but in the end we got to see our two sweet babies.. so all is well.  Here are some pictures from today!