Double the Kids

After Nathanael was born, several people said "now you don't have to have more, since you have one of each!" But, we knew we were meant to have more children. After the IVF cycle in which we were blessed with Nathanael, we had several frozen embryos. We were paying to have them stored and were looking forward to "using" them. I never liked the fact that my oldest two were so far apart, and so I couldn't wait to get the next IVF cycle going.

We called the Reproductive Care Center in May of 2007 to get things started. The frozen embryo transfer was MUCH easier than the "fresh" IVF cycle had been. It took longer than we had hoped to get things going, but once the ball was rolling, it went fast. We had originally had 15 eggs, 12 made it to embryo stage, and we'd had 2 transferred with our first IVF cycle. So, that makes 10 left. Only 3 survived the thaw. I was sad that so many "babies" had not made it. I felt like we had lost several children. We opted to have two embryos transferred.

Two weeks after the transfer, we got the positive pregnancy test. The nurse that called me, said the "levels" were really high, which usually means twins. I was afraid to get my hopes up, but really thought twins would be great. Two weeks after the positive test, we went in for an ultrasound to find out how many babies we would have. TWINS. We were so excited. I don't think we realized how drastically they would change our lives, or we would have been scared too. The day we found out we were having twins, Aaron chose names. We both felt that we'd have boy/girl twins, so he picked Carson for a boy, Vanessa for a girl.

The first "gender" ultrasound my Midwife thought it was two girls. Aaron & I looked at each other and said "no way." The next ultrasound confirmed it was 1 boy, and 1 girl. "good thing he figured it out!" I was due in April, but the twins came 4 weeks early. I remember sitting up the night before they were born, and I was so depressed because so many people kept talking about how much longer I had to go, and I felt the pregnancy was already SO long. I was tired of being pregnant (as any mother would understand!) and I was so uncomfortable. The next morning, we went in for a regular check-up, and the doctor said "these babies are coming today. Walk across the hall, and get yourself checked in. We'll do a c-section immediately."

Carson Glen was born at 4:57 and Vanessa Anne at 4:59 on March 24, 2008. Carson was butt first, Vanessa was foot first so there was no way I could deliver without c-section. We felt complete. We had spent 4 1/2 years of our lives together trying to get pregnant. We had overcome so many problems, and now we had 2 boys, and 2 girls. The "perfect" family. We were complete. Or so we thought....