Maybe having twins...

Why I think this is beyond me. Twins don't run in either family. I'm not over 35, we didn't use fertility drugs to conceive. I really have no known "risk" factors.

But I've dreamed of twins several times and even triplets one night. Always they are girls. I'm consistently told that I look larger for how far along I am. I've only gained 3 pounds so I shouldn't look too big already. I'm barely at the end of my first trimester, and for the first pregnancy I shouldn't be THAT big already.

When we heard the heartbeat last appointment, the nurse prefaced looking by saying that I "was only 10 weeks and it's really early, so if we don't heard anything, don't freak out." She was looking and looking and looking low down by my pubic bone and couldn't hear anything. But when she moved up to my belly button, we heard the little monkey. She (we don't know yet, but have been referring to the baby as "she" for weeks) was just to the left of my belly button at the belly button height.

I think that both the nurse and I were surprised. She got a funny look on her face and said "are you SURE of your dates?"

Uh yeah, lady. I'm sure. Now I can't tell you the date we actually conceived but I can tell you the date that we did the deed that got me pregnant. And at this point, I don't think that 2 or 3 days makes that much of a difference in where the heart beat is heard.

When I told her that, she asked if we were sure we only were going to have one baby. Since my doctor's office only gives one ultrasound at 20-22 weeks, we've not gotten to see our little monkey yet. Only heard her precious little heart beating away at a stunningly healthy 175 times a minute.

And I told her that. No ultrasound yet. No, we're not sure. And she just kind of smiled, like she knew a secret that we didn't.

Yeah I know that the odds of having a natural multiples conception is like 2% at my age and with all the other factors counted. I know not to get my hopes up too high. I also know that I was maybe 5 days post conception when I was throwing up.

I don't know if we're having more than one or not. But I've talked about it enough and enough people wonder about it at work that Daddy gets overwhelmed by twins talk...I find some sick and perverse pleasure in knowing that I've just about got him convinced that his super sperm helped create 2 babies.

Is that so bad?