The Reveal

A few weeks ago when I had an ultrasound I knew that I might be on the very cusp of being able to see what in fact the two little cherubs might be. From the first day that I knew that I was pregnant it has been at the top of my mind to connect with these little ones and know what gender they were. This was something that obviously I never got to find out last time.

It honestly breaks my heart every single day to think about all the things that went wrong AFTER I found out that the last baby (fetus) no longer had a heartbeat. This post is not and should not be about the last pregnancy but it's true that from that day (no HB) forward it has colored my whole life. Like it or not.

Sooooo...a few weeks ago I knew that it might be possible to get a glimpse of what these kiddos genders might be. Since I am sure it is scrawled in BIG RED LETTERS all over my chart "PROBLEM PATIENT" they all knew I wanted to find out genders as soon as possible. Two weeks ago these babies were being stubborn but for a brief second Baby B flopped open their legs and ALL BOY was revealed. We were excited to find this out and I was sure that Baby A was going to be a GIRL. Though in the back of my mind all along I have convinced myself that these two babies had to be the same gender because they were always within one or two beats for a heart rate.

Once my family knew that I KNEW one of the genders they were on my case for answers. DH and I had decided that we were under no circumstances spilling the beans until or next scan when we knew we would be able to have BOTH genders to reveal. I planned a gender reveal pizza party for August 2, 2011 at our house where BOTH genders would be revealed. And don't think my family didn't try to get it out of four year old Izzie because they certainly did. We didn't even tell Izzie she was going to get two siblings or that I was pregnant until Monday after daycare. I have dropped hints here and there but the last time I was pregnant we told her right before we found out the baby had died.

Monday morning bright and early on the 1st of August DH and I went into the Dr. and had another ultrasound and check. We found out that both babies were BOYS!!! Hard to believe that I MAY get to be a mother to two boys! Shocked does not even begin to explain what I was feeling....and what do I do with all this girl STUFF I have from Izzie. I thought she might be our only so I have sort of gone overboard.
Over the next 36ish hours my family tried all they could to get it out of me, DH and Izzie but we were not budging. Izzie didn't even know. We had everyone over for pizza and cake/cupcakes to our house. It was a bunch of fun. I had a cake made at one of the local bakeries that had two layers, one for each baby. I let the grandmothers (Bubbe and Nana) cut intot he cake to reveal to everyone else what these two little babies would be. I even requested that everyone dress according to their predictions.Their were a handful of people (includingmy mother and DH's father) who guessed correctly. The whole party seems like it is silly but it was a little bit of joy to see all my family there to share with us something about this pregnancy. And darn it, it was FUN! Well, except for the part where Izzie cried when she found out she was getting TWO BROTHERS! She has gotten over it pretty quickly. Frankly I think she still isn't really sure what is going on and she keeps telling us she is going to have a brother AND a sister. We shall see how this all pans out when we hopefully bring home two brothers.