Many Firsts! An ambulance ride, a jet plane journey and preterm labor!

Some of you have noticed that the poll on the right side of our blog at guessing the gender of our twins, has counted down the days over and over again at least 4 times now. At 13 weeks we found out what ONE of the babies is. I was going to announce it on our blog soon after, but I really wanted to announce them together since they are coming together. So I decided to wait until we found out what they both were. Each visit and ultrasound I had after that they just couldn't tell what the sex of the other baby is. Another month would pass, and again, they couldn't tell what the baby was.

Well at yesterday's ultrasound, not only did we finally find out what we are having, but this ultrasound started a new juorney for us that totally took us for a loop!

Everything was looking great with both babies, the heart, lungs, they both had the right amount of fingers and toes and belly botton holes. :) At the end of the appointment the ultrasound tech wanted to check my cervic with a vaginal ultrasound, but what came next was such a shock, that not even the ultrasound lady could keep a poker face. She let out a little "gasp", and a look of horror washed over her face. Followed by, "Ummm... I need to go talk to your doctor right now." We asked her what was wrong, and her reply was a stuttering, "Uh, well, umm, I, uh, your cervix... is not.... showing as much as it's... supposed to." And out of the room she flew!

As you can imagine Ryan and I were completely dumfounded and also confused and scared as to what the heck was going on. The doctor comes in and says immediately that I am to be life flighted to Salt Lake and hope these babies stay put before I get there!

"WHAT!?!"

I guess my cervix had dilated to a 3, and the baby's foot was down in the birth canal! I knew that I was feeling completely overwhelmed by so many things this last month and that I needed to take it easy, as I have had contractions here and there, but I didn't know I was dilated to a 3, or that one of the baby's feet was poking out!

The next thing I knew I was being strapped down to a gurney by four or five nurses, clothes being stripped off, while Ryan and I both start crying. They start poking me with needles in each bum, each arm, and thumb (ok, not my thumbs, just trying to rhymn! :)) and I was lucky enough to even be given my first ever... cathater! Boy was that intense! Yet, it was nothing compared to what I was going to experience next...

I was then loaded onto an ambulance and driven to the Pocatello Airport where I was tightly packed onto a six seater jet plane and life flighted to Salt Lake City. The airplane ride over was probably the scariest thing ...ok it WAS the scariest thing I have ever experienced besides not knowing if I was going to loose these babies.

After loading the plane and taking off, I realized how much I HATE to fly, especially in small planes! The turbulance and air pockets we hit were so bad I just knew we were going to be on the front page of the morning news the next day. Luckily, they gave me oxygen to try and calm me down as I stopped breathing dozen of times... and they had to keep telling me, I HAD to breathe, or these babies would be born on the plane!

We finally landed on the earth's solid ground and I don't think I have ever been more relieved in my whole life! I was then loaded onto another ambulance. And as it zips down the streets, I think, "Well, this will make for an interesting post." haha! :) I was joking the whole way to the hospital with the nurses and EMT's on board. I told them, "Well it's a blessing I have a nifty cathater on, as I would have peed my pants on the plane ride and made a terrible mess!" Joking around helps me relax, so I sure was making a fool of myself... it was great! :)

So now I am here, in Salt Lake, at the University of Utah Hospital. Ryan's mom was able to drive up to be with me as I told Ryan to stay home and go to school. Our kids are with my parents, and I know they will take good care of them, but I miss them already!

Anyway they were able to get my contractions to stop and we have managed to keep the babies inside for now. I am exactly 23 weeks today, I guess I am a little off on my time chart on the side of my blog. I will have to stay in Utah on bedrest for the next two to three months or until these babies come, (hopefully not too soon) only getting up out of bed to go pee! Utah's hospital is better equipped to take care of the twins if they were to be born this early. They have a better chance of survival here rather than in Pocatello. So for now, I am just to take it day by day.

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Thank you all for your love, support and prayers!

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We also wanted to FINALLY report what we are having! Most of you know that at 13 weeks we knew one was a BOY!!! You can imagine how excited we are to be getting a BOY, especially Ryan. And I am happy to report that he is still showing to be ALL BOY!! ;)

We were pretty confident the other one was a girl, but didn't know for 100% sure that it was, and I guess technically there is no 100% sure way to know until they are actually born!

The other baby is....

(drumroll, please....)

A GIRL!!!!

We are super excited to be having another girl as we LOVE our girls!!!

So those of you 23 people that voted a boy and a girl- YOU ARE RIGHT! Those that voted something else, well YOU ARE WRONG! haha. Better luck next time...not on our blog of course! It would have to be someone else's! ;)