A momo  mom contacted me to say she had been in the news! She wrote this introduction and the news story and pictures are below! (source:  http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/show_story.php?id=27924) You're about to embark on a crazy, stressful and oftentimes scary journey with a momo pregnancy. I was inpatient and delivered my twin girls at a very reputable hospital and I was lucky to have wonderful, experienced care. My best advice is to educate yourself and be your own advocate. And remember, you're now part of a very exclusive momo- mommy club! And we are all here to support you ..read more

**The following entries are taken with permission from www.4tunate.net.  Please visit that blog for updates on the family as well as frugal living, faith journey, family-friendly foods, and finding joy in the every day!*** From http://www.4tunate.net/2007/02/about-us/ On February 2, 2007, we became parents to quadruplet boys: Henry, Brooks, Clark, and Isaac. Originally, this blog started as a way to keep family and friends on board with updates and prayer requests during our extreme high-risk pregnancy. Since then, it has “multiplied” into a collection of our family adventures, frugal ..read more

     I found out that I was pregnant New Year's Day.  We were surprised and excited and anxious.  Of course, we had to wait several weeks before we actually got to see a doctor, so 28 days later we made our way to the doctor excited to hear our baby's heartbeat for the first time.       At our first appointment we went in for the sonogram and it was very exciting until the technician said, ,"Oh...wait a minute..."  It got very scary for a few seconds until she identified a second heartbeat.  We were having twins.  Next the ..read more

 Our Babies Without Borders Belladonna Marie and Blaize Andromeda       On September 9th I was watching a rather gory movie "Parana" and all of a sudden began to crave a sugar cookie so badly I could smell it! I then remembered how sensitive and sore my breasts had been the past few days and all of a sudden it hit me.... I must be pregnant. The next morning in pajamas and all, I went to the store with my husband and got a test. I rushed home to take it and sure enough, the line was dark as could be, I was pregnant. It seemed a little early to me to be experiencing s ..read more

                        It was decided quite soon after having my son, now 2, that I wanted a 4th child.  I hated the odd number it seemed my daughter was always pushed out.  So when in the summer of 2010 I found I was pregnant again I was over the moon. At around what I thought was 6wks I was sent for a scan as I kept spotting.  When we arrived we were sat in a room full of bumps as I was looking at a display I noticed a poster about multiples and I pointed and said to Danny, “can you ..read more

      I have always loved babies, and so I was thrilled when, after 6 years together, my husband agreed we were ready to have one of our own!          After a fairly uneventful pregnancy, and a fast but fantastic water birth, we were blessed with a beautiful boy – Hudson.  A delicious, fun-loving, bright, adventurous child - and thus a good advertisement to sell hubby on the idea of having more! I promptly started to hint that another child would complete our family.    As we also had a 13 year old daughter from my previous rela ..read more

There I lay with a 6 month beautiful bundle of joy and my husband said "I would like another" I smile and say, "in another 5 years", he looks back "I think I will be too old in 5 years. I want to see my children grow up. Look how close Riley and Tia are." (Grandchildren of a friend that are 15 months between each other) I look at him and say "yes, that would be lovely, they would be so close they would be like twins." (Famous last words) Only the month after I take a pregnancy test which was positive, we were excited. 6 weeks into the pregnancy I started experiencing severe cramping, the d ..read more

I had never thought I was going to be a mother.  I'd been diagnosed with polycystic kidney disease when I was twenty-one.  Due to the kidney disease I had high blood pressure, and I also have chronic migraines.  I had been told by every doctor for ten years that I should not have children.  Not that I couldn't have children but that I shouldn't have them.  I told myself that I didn't want children so as to not have to confront the idea of not being able to have them.  Then, about six months after getting married,  I found myself pregnant and everything chang ..read more

Simon and I were very excited about our first baby scan at 11 weeks.  We couldn't wait to see our little one for the first time. Just before the scan started Simon told the OB that my sister has triplets so it would be interesting to see if we were having twins (or more!). I confidently told the OB that we were just having one baby thank you very much! As soon as the scan started Simon and I could see a baby and something else.... The OB announced "There's more than one!". There was a lot of nervous laughter and exclamations such as "no way!", "really?", "are you sure", “there’s only 2 r ..read more

My husband and I decided to start a family sometime in early 2008. Like any other naive couple about to embark on the journey to parenthood we figured it would be relatively easy. I mean, we spend most of our teenage years trying NOT to get pregnant so logically, once we threw caution to the wind it should happen fairly quick, right?.......WRONG! Here's where that title phrase made its debut appearance....."This can't be happening!" Unfortunately, it was. So, after about a year of disappointment we sought the help of a reproductive specialist. After countless blood tests, MRI's, sonograms, su ..read more