6 months already?

Seeing as my beautiful daughters are 6 months old, I should probably actually start my blogging. A little history for you: VERY shortly after my husband and I got married, we started trying to have a baby. After 2 years, 5 doctors, 1 surgery, countless tests, ultrasounds, and blood draws, and 3 rounds of IUI including pills and injections, we got pregnant! Here is a quick snapshot of my eventful pregnancy...

week 4 - We're pregnant!

week 7 - Holy Crow!!!! TWINS!!!! we heard both heartbeats

week 18 - It's a Girl! It's a Girl!

week 22 - diagnosed with an incompetent cervix - 25% effaced - put on total bed rest

week 23 - 50% effaced - hospitalized for monitoring and steroid shots

week 24 - sent home and told to see a doctor once a week from now on

week 25 - 75% effected - hospitalized for monitoring

week 26 - sent home...again with at home contraction monitoring

week 27 - 1 cm dilated

week 28 - 3 cm dilated - hospitalized for monitoring and penicillin (to prevent infections)

week 32 - 3-4 cm dilated - sent home very swollen

week 33 - showed signs of preeclampsia - now monitoring BP

week 34 - hospital triage visit due to BP

week 35 - hospital triage visit due to BP

35w4d - 2am hospital triage visit due to BP

7am doc says i'm staying in the hospital until the girls are delivered

3pm doc orders another round of blood work

6pm doc said that because of the preeclampsia, I've developed HELLP syndrome and baby B (Lilly) is showing signs of growth restriction, therefore we will deliver the babies bright and early the next morning!

35w5d - 7:52am Welcome Lillian Faye!!!

7:53am Welcome Ellyssa Rose!!!

It's hard to imagine that they've been in our lives for 6 months now! But given the outcome, I'd do it all over again.

I will soon add an entry for each girl, about their progress so far...and there's a ton to say :)