A Pregnancy Journey - How many are in there?

Well we have our first ultrasound today. We are both so excited and can't wait to see our little bubba/s for the first time.

The first question I think we both ask is How Many Are in There? Who would of ever though that this would be a first question for us. Last time when I was pregnant with the twins we joked around about having twins but neither of us knew that we had twins in the family. So when the person doing the ultrasound was moving it over my belly at first I couldn't see the picture but my partner could and he had this weird look on his face and I immediately thought Oh God somethings wrong. But nope she turned the monitor to me and went here is Baby A and here is Baby B I was gob smacked. So I think this time that is our very first question.......


We are having the ultrasound done as we really don't know how far along I am. I though I would be about 11wk atm but the Doctor thinks about 8wks, I have a long cycle so he said it gets very confusing so he would rather know one way or the other. Hey I'm not complaining I get to see our baby/ies today!

So now I have the lovely task of drinking 1litre of water and holding it in. God last time I almost peed myself and had to use the rest room and let some out otherwise there was no way I would of made it through the ultrasound. So this time I'm not going to drink as much water as last time I was told I drank to much but only drank 750ml so this time I will drink 500-700ml and hopefully that should be alright. I mean I go to the bathroom so much it isn't funny. So sick of seeing that bathroom... Well at least I haven't had my head in the toilet this time round. Well I better start drinking that water now. So I'll finish writing this when it's all over........ Wish us luck!

The ultrasound went well. I'm 11wks along today so I was right and the Doctor was wrong.. lol

So I guess your all wondering how many bubs are in my tummy.... Well we only have ONE baby this time! Woohoo! What a relief it was to find out that there is one healthy bub in there. I love my twins like no tomorrow but I am glad I will only have 1 baby as I don't know if I would be able to handle 2 newborns and twin toddlers... I know that other mums have done it and I take my hat off to them. But I guess if we did have another set of twins on the way I would cope. I didn't think I could do twins the first time but I did.

When I rang to tell my mum that the ultrasound went well and I said guess how many bubs we have? She said 1? and I said add another 2 to that 1.. Well you should of heard her.... Apparently all the people at the pub were looking at her cos she yelled "What the Hell" at the top of her lungs... lol.... Then I came clean and said nah we only have 1 this time, and she was like oh thank god!

My morning sickness is slowly going away but I still feel a little yuck some nights and I have to brush my teeth in the shower because when I lean over the basin to rinse my mouth out I will almost chuck. Don't know why that is as it happened when I was pregnant with the twins as well.

Alana (aka Mattnalana)