The second time around....

It may seem easier at first, but this pregnancy has been nothing like my first. We found out at 6 weeks that not only we were going to have another baby, but we were expecting two! There was no planning or drugs involved, just good old fashioned luck. At first Jon didn't believe me, but it was made quite clear to him when he saw an ultrasound at 9 weeks and the doctor pointed out both babies and both heartbeats.

The irony in all of this lies with two women I met in hosptial when I was expecting my son Evan. We were on the high risk ward of Women's College Hospital in Toronto weeks before our kids were born. Shar was pregnant with fraternal twins and Shannon was expecting identicial girls. I was admitted with PROM (premature rupture of membranes - in other words my water began leaking really early) Shar's kids wer efacing the wrong way and growing at different rates and Shannon's girls were momo babies. We were joined at the hip right away and used each other to maintain our sanity during our time there. But that was just the start of a great relationship. We are still like sisters to this day, sharing everything from parenting advice to fashion tips. These girls helped me through one of the toughest times in my life, but they always secretly cursed us for only having one baby while they struggled to care for two each! Since then Shar has welcomed another baby into her home, with the birth of Vania last March. Both Shannon and Shar haven't stopped laughing at us since learning that we were now expecting twins. I believe it was Karma all along, like I was supposed to meet these women to help me deal with having Evan two months early, but with the challenge that lies ahead.

We will welcome our beautiful baby girls into this world anyday now and I just pray that I am as good a mother to these two as Shar and Shannon have been with their kids.

Thursday, 7 Feb

It `s official, I `m the size of the doorway and can no longer get in the house! Kidding, but all joking aside, I didn `t know it was possible for someone as small as me (5 `2 120ish pounds) to get this big! I `m 34 weeks this Sunday with identical twin girls. My feet are the size of watermelons and I haven `t felt my hands because of the carpal tunnel for months now. My 2 1/2 year old son was a preemie, born at 31 and 6, so the doctor `s are amazed that I `ve gone this long with the girls. They `re almost 5 pounds each and growing at a steady rate. I `m packed, the nusery is finished, they have beautiful clothes thanks to a friend who had identical girls, so we `re ready to go. Now comes the hard part --- the waiting.....wondering if this is the night that my water will break. I hope it does soon because I don `t think it `s possible for me to get any bigger. I `m starting to gross myself out!!!

Friday, 8 Feb

Monday, 11 Feb

So I `m back home now after a scary weekend in one of our lovely health care facilities....sheesh what a gong show! On Friday I started having contractions around 10:30 in the morning. At first I thought they were just Braxtons so I didn `t worry about it. But around 1 they started getting intense, closer together and felt more like the real thing. I called my husbad and we went to the hospital. They admitted me and I spent the next 19 hours on a gurney in triage having severe contractions. Nothing else was happening, I wasn `t dialating, so the residents that had been seeing me overnight, etc. decided to give me a pill to stop the contractions....why they didn `t do this a lot sooner is beyond me, but whatever. I was released after I caused a stink on Saturday afternoon when it was clear I was no longer in labour.....Funny because I wasn `t even in labour that long when my son was born. I `m expecting babies sooner rather than later now because of the false labour....I just think this was a mean joke by mother nature. It was an emotional rollercoaster to think that we may have had babies this weekend....grrrrrrrrr ... back to cooking the kids.....

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This is a video I made to enter a local radio station's contest to win a $50,000 Dream baby shower contest. The prize ended up going to a very deserving family who's father was diagnosed with cancer. I love the video though.