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| My twins around the age of one |
She sure got me thinking though.
I was a lot sicker this time around and I DID look a lot bigger than
when I was 12 weeks with my first. At my
Dr.’s appointment, my husband and I went with the intention of bringing this
up. The Dr. listened for the heart beat
and he said that he did hear two heart beats but that when he hears two it often means he is hearing an echo. He
wrote a script to have a 14-week ultrasound. The Dr. proceeded to say the 4
words I dreaded hearing: "It might be twins."
This really freaked me out.
Once outside the Dr.’s office, my husband said "We are for sure having twins. A Dr. that has over 30 years in practice doesn’t just say it might be twins if he doesn’t feel it’s really, really likely." I said that we should just wait and see at the ultrasound.
Once outside the Dr.’s office, my husband said "We are for sure having twins. A Dr. that has over 30 years in practice doesn’t just say it might be twins if he doesn’t feel it’s really, really likely." I said that we should just wait and see at the ultrasound.
We had to wait a couple days to get an appointment with the
ultra sound department.
The big day came.
Both my husband and I went to the appointment. The ultrasound tech asked why we were told to
get an ultra sound. I retold the story
of how the Dr. heard two heartbeats. The
room was extremely quiet as we waited.
“There’s one” she said and then I will never forget when she put up two
fingers and I exclaimed “Oh my G-d”.
My husband Chris said “It will be ok honey.”
The tech said everything looked good and told some story of twins that I
was totally glazed over for. She left
the room and I started to cry. I was the
one that always said to my friends that had twins “I don’t know HOW you do it,
I couldn’t do it.” I KNEW how hard it
was going to be. I KNEW what we were in
for. I had a flood of emotions about
whether my 1 ½ year old son would be ruined since he would be bombarded
with two new babies in mere months and how much attention this is going to take
away from him and how this seems so unfair to him. I continued to cry. Chris continued to say we would be ok.
As I started to tell friends and family, everyone thought it
was so “cool.” Oooh and ahhh all you want but this was not “cool” news to
me. I was disappointed, scared,
and sad.
Alas, the girls will turn three in July and I do feel
accomplished when I state the stats of my family: I have a son that will turn 5
in May and twin daughters that will be 3 in July. I usually get instant respect and lots of
street cred (as I should). Of course
they all fight and take toys from one another but when I hear them tell one
another “I love you” or when they hug it warms my heart to no end. I love to hear the twins' preschool teacher tell
me that although they engage in different activities, they always have an eye
on the other one and never let each other out of sight. I have always been grateful I have a sister and now I
feel as if I have given each of them the best gift in the world.
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2 comments:
Good for you....couldn't have been easy...but sounds like you are a champ.
Thanks for sharing your insights.
Love this post:) Happy Thanks giving to you and your family!
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