We feel so blessed to have our twins, Calvin and Chloe, in our family. We went through quite a great deal to get them here. Here is their story...When Ruby was 7 months old, both Sean and I felt that we were supposed to have another baby right away. CRAZY, I know. But, since we both felt so strongly about it we decided that it must be what Heavenly Father wanted for our family. We were able to get pregnant right away, but when I was about 16 weeks along we found out that the sweet little embryo's heart had stopped beating. It was quite devastating. In our minds we reconciled this experience by thinking that maybe that was all the body that spirit needed.
The following November we became pregnant again, only too soon to find out that this baby's heart had stopped beating also. The same thing happened again in March of 2007. Needless to say we were both very disappointed, frustrated, depressed, confused and just plain old sad. We met with Dr. Lowder and he said that based on our history (I had now had a total of 6 miscarriages) we had about a 30% chance of being able to carry a baby to full term.
What to do?! I did not want to have another miscarriage, yet neither of us felt like we were "done". At that point I finally realized that it was in Heavenly Father's hands. If He wanted our family to have another child, He could make it happen. If not, then He must have some other plans in mind for us.
Well, 6 months after meeting with Dr. Lowder, we found out that we were pregant (yet again)! I had prepared myself for another miscarriage when we went in for our ultrasound. I will never forget the look on Dr. Lowder's face when he looked at the screen. Having had 6 miscarriages, I had become all too familiar with the Holly-I-Am-So-Sorry face. This was completely different! I remember repeating the word "what" a few times and then he said, "You are having twins"!
...and 9 loooooong months later here they are!!!
I now feel like it took a few tries to get them here because they couldn't come until they were both ready. They needed to be together, and we sure love them that way!!
Don't you think that they are better together?
6 comments:
Holly, I love the pictures of the babies. They look so sweet! Give them a kiss for me!
Love,
Kim
I am so glad you have a blog!!!!! Your little twins are such cuties!!!!!!!!!!!! (Did I add enough exclamation marks?..if not, here's some more!!!!!!)
So glad all is well for you. Thanks too for the birth announcement! We love it!
What a beautiful story and babies! Your family is very blessed. I will be checking your blog often to see them grow!
Yeah! You have a blog! Those pictures of the twins are beautiful! I love Calvin's face in the first one...so adorable. Where did you get those taken?
I was SO happy to get my announcement in the mail the other day. They are such precious little ones! And unmistakabley "Hart" too :)!
I was happy to see your URL pop up on my hit counter today! I promise we will be to visit soon. I hope even this Sunday. I'm trying to see if James and Liam are just getting change of season sniffles or if they're really getting sick. If they ARE sick, I promise to stay far away ;)....but only till they're better!
Lots of love to you,
~Jen
I never knew that was the story!!! I love you SO MUCH!!!
Lots of Love,
Emma M.
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