I haven't been all that honest on this blog. I keep telling myself, after the next visit, when things are more certain, when I know for sure, when it will be safe and a whole bunch of other excuses. Some people have guessed it because of the occasional slips and some people know it because they know me outside of cyberspace so it's not all that big a secret.
Even then, I figured it's 31 weeks in the making and I should basically come clean and announce it loud and clear- We're having twins!
Also, it makes blogging about them a whole lot easier.
There, it's all out. They're not identical though. So they won't look all that alike. As for the gender, this one, I really can't help you with because we have an extremely uncooperative and shy one who has never quite been all that forthcoming about whether he/she is a boy/girl.
So what's different about having twins? You get bigger faster, your symptoms are a whole lot more exaggerated and there's a whole lot more to worry about. This morning, I was told in no uncertain terms that I had to stay away from durians. It's sugar I don't need, that might trigger all these wonderful things that I'm more at risk of encountering because of the offspring. It's a whole lot scarier too, especially since I'm going from 0- 2 in 10 months. That's really into the deep end for you!
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Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Coming clean
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My goodness! Twins! Double the blessings... :)
ReplyDeleteHope you've been reading parenting books like The Baby Whisperer or the Babywise series... cos stuff like sleep training (cry it out? co-sleeping?) isn't easy already for 1 baby... not to mention 2! When the babies are out, sure no time to read one.
You go, girl!
Wow! Congrats!=)
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TWINS?! I would never have guessed. SO COOL! Great blessings. Really enjoy your blogs, though I usually lurk around but just HAD to de-lurk upon reading this.
Congrats!
LOLOLOL!!! I knew it!!! When you kept mixing up the singulars and plurals... I just knew it!!! *proud beam*
ReplyDeleteCongrats Ondine!!! You'll never know what hit you!! You can only pray that the good Lord will give you nerves of steel, an overabundance of patience and the blessings of twins who know night from day and sleep more than they cry... you've got my prayers girl...
I pray for God's richest blessings on you in that first moment when you are finally home, hurting in unmentionable places, brain dead from delivery and the endless stream of visitors, questions, probing and poking, engorged from milk coming in, unhinged from trying to out-second-guess yourself, and the twins choose the same moment to have a diaper blowout and be starving, all at the same time.
But tell yourself this (it got me through the first... after which it never gets as bad as that)... "this too shall pass"... repeat after me now... "this too shall pass".
6 weeks, girl. 6 weeks. After that, I promise, it gets better... much much better.
Just Passing By...
ReplyDeleteThanks for scaring the bejeezus out of me. :)
Yes, you were the first to guess from the beginning. Clever girl. :)
ROFLOL, you're welcome.
ReplyDeleteBut seriously... I just wished someone had warned me that it would be that hard the first time round... then I would have gotten myself a proper confinement nanny and slowly moved into it. Gungho lah... try to be brave lah... and that's what I got. So if you haven't, get yourself proper help (and no, MIL's don't count because you're too polite to ask for help anyway...and end up trying to do too much yourself, instead of resting), and as a very wise nurse once told me, "Your job is to feed the baby, feed yourself and REST!!!"
God bless you.... double-ly. Oh wait, he already has!! Well, you'll be in my prayers.