for some reason i have been feeling as if this pregnancy doesn't count yet. don't get me wrong, though. i am very attached to these little bumpkins. have been since i found out...maybe it's because i have heard from so many rude people not to count them as twins just yet...i don't know. it's silly, really, because they DO count. they ARE significant. so yesterday i hit ten weeks and i celebrated that. that's a milestone for me. that's one week closer to the second trimester. one week closer to the day i can hold TWO babies. i guess that's the thing with twin pregnancies. there IS so much that could go wrong. there IS a very real possibility that one or both won't make it...but there IS life growing inside of us, and they matter. very much so. i am going to try my best to focus on the positive aspects of being pregnant with twins. anyone else felt/feel this way?
Don't let anyone make you feel like you shouldn't celebrate! I found out at 7 weeks that it was twins and it is twins, now just over 2 years old. People say the dumbest things about twins, get used to that and start learning to ignore them. I understand your feelings, I was terrified my entire pregnancy that something would happen to one of them. I think that is a natural feeling with any pregnancy, but is probably magnified in a twin pregnancy. Congratulations!
This is one of the reasons I did not tell anyone about the pregnancy (and at the time we thought singleton, had no reason to suspect otherwise) until after 12 weeks when I had my first appointment and heard the heartbeat. I know people are just trying to prepare us in case something does happen but to concentrate solely on that is not healthy. Congratulations on 10 weeks!
thank you, ladies. people do say rude things. i am not sure why they think that it's okay to say crazy scary things to a woman raging with double hormones. it's weird to me.
I know how you feel - It is sad too how some people add to it. I get the comments all the time from people with and without twins. The most common is being told constantly that I could still lose them until 20 somethings weeks. I hate that! We are so excited and scared anyway. Like any pregnant women needs to hear that. Can't people say something nice?
Most twin pregnancies produce two babies. My MD always kept saying, "There are lots of things that can happen." I would get so worried. Everything I read about twins were horrible - I swear you never find good birth experiences in your books. People always have storries of the twins they lost or someone the knew lost. Truth is, there are more twins not lost - you just don't hear about them! Twin pregnancies are hard - but two babies are so much fun (and WORK!) Keep your focus on the baby. My MD said - "you will never make it past 32 weeks." At 32 weeks he said, "You will have them before 34 weeks." At 34 weeks he said, "You might just make it all the way." We delivered at 36 w 3d - They could have stayed in longer but my five foot tall body was tired and in pain so he decided to deliver them then (I wish I had waited a few more days - but I now have two cute babies!) Focus on the good.
Every day should be exciting! And it's an accomplishment. I went to my regular doc last week b/c of a back problem - and the nurse said "Oh, you're having twins? Are you happy?" She said it in a really mean way. I said "Of course, we're ecstatic, but I'd be happier if you could get me into the doc so he could fix my back!" I often wonder where people were raised. good luck w/ your two little ones. I feel like I was 10 weeks just yesterday - it sure goes by fast. I'm 28 weeks tomorrow and was just put on bedrest.
