Welcome to our journey...

​Welcome to our journey of patience & persistence!  (Thank you Poppy for my new mantra)

We are currently 27 weeks pregnant with monoamniotic monochorionic twin girls (mono mono twins for short) This means our girls share one amniotic sac and one placenta. This little diagram explains the days of when the egg split and 1 became 2!!

 This is an extremely rare and dangerous pregnancy  with a statistically low survival rate; but with our family and friends' love, support, and faith we are making it through day by day. Not to mention, our girls have 2 of the best angels watching over them already - Dal's mom and my Gram. 

 I wanted to create this website to share our journey with our friends and family whom we aren't in touch with daily. Plus I have nothing better to do in this dang hospital room! :)

Side note - I always thought it was strange when people said "we are pregnant" - isn't the woman just pregnant?  I totally get it now.  My husband and I are going through this together. And I don't just mean that we will raise these girls together. I mean that I have been blessed with the absolute most caring, selfless, hard working, faithful, generous, understanding man that God has put on this Earth. I literally could not live a day without this man or go through any of this without Dallas. He has been here for me in every sense possible and there are no words to describe how incredibly blessed and fortunate I am to have married this man. These girls will have the best daddy. (Sigh of relief) 

I will be inpatient until our girls make their way into this world. The babies and I have to be monitored daily for signs of cord entanglement or compression which would lead to an emergency C-section in every hope to save our baby girls. 

Here's a little back story of our pregnancy thus far...

After a few months of trying to conceive, I took a pregnancy test on Easter morning and it was positive! I was in shock.  I called Dallas in the room and showed him the test, we were so excited and I think immediately panicked --- it was really happening. 

Our first ultrasound was scheduled but because we were just under 6 weeks pregnant, the doctor asked us to come back the following week to see the heart beat. Well, of course Dallas was in the Caribbean during that time, so I went alone assuming it would be a quick & easy appointment. 

The ultrasound tech started questioning if I had any pain and if I'd had an ultrasound before and so I immediately thought something was wrong and adrenaline and fear rushed through my body. She said everything was ok but she needed to get my doctor. I can't explain the heightened feelings of anxiety and worry I had at that moment. My doctor came in and asked where my husband was and I was just thinking "spit it out already lady, what's wrong!?" I politely replied, "he's traveling for work- is there something wrong?" And she said "no, he will just be surprised to hear he's having two babies!" 

And the most important and emotional journey of our lives began...

McKinley Melaine & Addison Grace