Back to the begining!
Andy and I met in the Army and got hitched shortly after. When we decided to start a family, we had no idea it would be so complicated. After a year of trying and still not pregnant I went to my doctor who referred me to our wonderful fertility doctor. It took months of tests for us to figure out I was not ovulating on my own, so we tired Clomid. Clomid is a drug that helps with ovulation and has a 8% chance increase of getting fraternal twins due to over stimulation of the ovary. Well... thats a small chance right? It wont happen to us...or so we thought! Acutally that cycle nothing did happen, what a let down. I got my blood drawn and found the drug hadnt done a thing, no ovulation for me that month. At that point Andy was two months out from another deployment, so we figured we will just try again when he comes home. The day he deployed I took a pregnancy test and it was positive! We were thrilled!! After almost two years of trying we were finally pregnant! A week later, after a series of blood tests I found out I had lost the baby. One of the hardest things I have done was have to tell my newly deployed husband he was no longer going to be a father.  Everything happends for a reason we always say, and that baby just wasnt ment to be. Any way 10 months later Andy had to come home early to take care of me while I recovered from back surgery. LOL so heres where my almost year long bed rest stay starts. I had surgery in mid December and in Febuary we went back to the fertility doc to do another round of Clomid. Silly me, I figure its taken nearly two years to get this far, theres no way we are going to get pregnant so soon. Around valentines day we go in for a ultrasound of my ovaries to see if the clomid had worked this time and it had! There was one egg! Yay we had a shot at getting pregnant this month! Two weeks later I took a pregnancy test and it was a faint positive!!! Finally! We were excited but tried not to get our hopes up too much because of how our last pregnancy ended. For the next week every morning I took another test and that line got darker and darker ;) I had a feeling that it was twins, and even joked with Andy about it. I remember waking up in the morning feeling like i had been hit by a truck! In the very early weeks my lower stomach was so sore and achy, my mom kept telling me its too early to feel that way, so i knew something was up. At  7 weeks I had to get a belly band because my pants were getting snug. Lol i kept telling myself im just imagining things, its way too early! At 8 weeks we went for our first ultrasound, what a day lol. We were so nervous going in, praying to see a heart beat and a healthy baby. Well... The ultrasound popped up on the screen and I saw 3 sacs, I thought I must be seeing things, then he counted... 1,2,3 you have triplets! He paused a moment and said I don't believe it, quadruplets there's two babies in that sac, identical twins! Amazing! I look over at Andy and his face went white, I thought he was going to hit the floor! Then he came to the conclusion that I had called ahead to have the doc play a trick on him, lol! I just remember laying there in complete shock, tones of questions going threw my head. Are they all healthy?  We are 23 and about to have four kids at one time, how can we do this? Why us? What happens when he deploys and I have four babies to care for? O boy what a day. We go eat lunch before heading home but couldn't actually eat a thing. We just sat in that booth with the ultrasound pictures spread out across the table.  After a failed attempt at lunch we tried to head home, only 45 min away, lol we got lost for a hour just driving around before we actually realized we were lost! talk about being in shock! From that day on our life changed drastically, but we wouldn't have it any other way. <3 p="">