“Dos Bebes”: Finding Out We’re Having Twins

August 17th. The day of our first ultrasound:

Tyler left work, lying saying that he had to go to a doctor’s appointment. Neglecting the fact that the appointment wasn’t, in fact for him, but for me. Because, I was pregnant. I remember being so nervous waiting for the ultrasound, sitting next to Tyler in the waiting room with a stack of papers to fill out. I remember being told to “go leave a sample”, in other words, to go pee in a cup. Little did I know, I would become an expert on “leaving a sample” with how many OB visits I had.

Before we went to the appointment, I told Tyler I felt like something was different. I wasn’t exactly sure what it was, but I didn’t feel pregnant. I didn’t want to say it out loud, but I anticipated walking in to that appointment, to leave with the news that I wasn’t pregnant.

The ultrasound tech had Tyler sit in a chair in the corner, and had me lay on the table. She started to use the abdominal ultrasound, but couldn’t find a clear picture. She switched to the wand, initially looking at my ovaries. Then, my uterus. Then rolling over the baby.

“There’s one……there’s the other.”

“WAIT, WHAT?”

“Dos bebes”

There were two babies, and I was 5 weeks along. Tyler and I began to cry, and everything after that became a blur. We walked out with the ultrasound picture in so much shock. Tyler was panicking about having to tell someone, because he couldn’t keep a secret like this without at least telling one person. At this time, he was transitioning from living in his brother’s house to moving into my parent’s house, where I had been living for a few months. Somehow we had to hide the secret that we were having twins until we got the “all-clear” at 12 weeks…