The Beginning

My life is being measured in weeks and days at the moment.  Every morning my mind mentally recalculates the amount of weeks and days I’ve been pregnant before I even get out of bed.  The big days are when the weeks change over.  For example, when I went from 7wk6d to 8wk0d I was so excited – we were that much closer to our 37wk goal and finally seeing our twins.

Twins. Yep, you read that right.  My lovely husband and I are having twins! That’s two babies at once!! We don’t even have one baby yet – so hearing the news of having two at once was quite the shock!  The feeling of shock I went through lasted for a good week or so.  You see, the whole time trying to get pregnant I had teased the husband that we were going to have twins – and it’d be wonderful.  He’d freak out and I would laugh and say we could handle it.  So, when the ultrasound tech confirmed that we were, indeed, having twins I wasn’t expecting to feel shocked.  As a matter of fact, the husband and I switched roles – he became instantly excited upon seeing/hearing the heartbeats and I entered a foggy world of shock.

Being the super Type-A personality I am – and loving to read about everything possible, I got on Amazon and purchased three books about twins. Two long days of feeling guilty about not being “over the moon” as most moms-to-be report to be later – they arrived.  I’m not sure what made me read them in the order that I did, but I’m glad I did.  The first book I read in a matter of an hour – I devoured the information – and in that hour I calmed down.  The book said I was in what is called “Twin Shock.” Apparently this shock is very special to parents of multiples and can happen at two different times 1) When you find out you are pregnant 2) When the babies are born.  I’m glad I got to deal with it early on!  Thankfully, I am now out of Twin Shock – and I have started to get really excited!!

That is the basic recap of what has happened so far.   I’ve decided to start this blog to help me process my thoughts throughout this pregnancy. Also, we live so far away from so many of our friends and family that I would like to provide a way so that they can check in on what’s up with the twins whenever they would like without clogging up their newsfeeds on Facebbook.