God must be laughing when I wrote my previous blog post titled 'Relatively Quiet and Uneventful days' because only 48 hours later, we got a huge dose of exciting development in our lives.
On Sunday evening, I was talking to my wife about how I was feeling a little anxious that we hadn't seen the baby or heard it's heartbeat in the ultrasound yet. To top it off, S's morning sickness had almost gone away which added to my worry (instead of being grateful about it). So I convinced her to get an ultrasound the very next morning and boy we were in for a surprise.
We're having twins !! Yess ... Identical twins!! These maybe only three words and may take a second to say to someone, but it takes a while to really let it sink in. There's a wide range of emotions the you feel, starting from being surprised, to happiness and then to worry and then repeat over and over again. We've been in a daze for the last 2 days. I mean suddenly you start putting an extra 's' after the word 'kid' or 'baby' every time you say 'our kids' or 'our babies' etc. Try looking a a crying baby after that, and you can't help but thinking what it would be to have two crying babies like next to each other :P
For first time parents like us, there's an additional kick. I think all expectant parents have at least some degree of concern about how good parents they will be ... That insecurity kind of gets multiplied by two when you hear about twins. But I'm excited about having twins now. It'll be fun you know. It's one of the rare blessings of Allah and I'm really happy about it. Come to think of it, we might even be able to get bulk discount on diapers now. I can't wait for our babies to come out and join our family.
The good news comes with a twist however. Our kids are monochorionic diamniotic twins, which means they're sharing the same placenta. Plus, we have early signs of placenta previa. Both of these can cause pre-term labor and some other complications. Since we did not know much about these terms, I've read a lot of information on the web and apparently the best thing to do is to stay positive and stay away from the internet because it just causes a lot of unnecessary stress for things that we cannot control at this time. We live in an under developed country and even though our doctor and the medical facilities are the best in this country, I still want to get enough information from the internet so that I'm completely knowledgeable about the issues, treatments and ways to detect these problems. I'm sure our doctor Lumaan Sheikh and our sonologist are going to get really mad at me asking a lot of questions through out the next few months.
Today S and I went to her university so that she could drop her courses this semester from college. Its a shame because this was her last semester before she got her undergraduate degree, with only 2 months left. Still, she needs to rest as much as possible to avoid any complications. And maybe it's just my perception, but S's belly seems a lot bigger since the last two days :D
On Sunday evening, I was talking to my wife about how I was feeling a little anxious that we hadn't seen the baby or heard it's heartbeat in the ultrasound yet. To top it off, S's morning sickness had almost gone away which added to my worry (instead of being grateful about it). So I convinced her to get an ultrasound the very next morning and boy we were in for a surprise.
We're having twins !! Yess ... Identical twins!! These maybe only three words and may take a second to say to someone, but it takes a while to really let it sink in. There's a wide range of emotions the you feel, starting from being surprised, to happiness and then to worry and then repeat over and over again. We've been in a daze for the last 2 days. I mean suddenly you start putting an extra 's' after the word 'kid' or 'baby' every time you say 'our kids' or 'our babies' etc. Try looking a a crying baby after that, and you can't help but thinking what it would be to have two crying babies like next to each other :P
For first time parents like us, there's an additional kick. I think all expectant parents have at least some degree of concern about how good parents they will be ... That insecurity kind of gets multiplied by two when you hear about twins. But I'm excited about having twins now. It'll be fun you know. It's one of the rare blessings of Allah and I'm really happy about it. Come to think of it, we might even be able to get bulk discount on diapers now. I can't wait for our babies to come out and join our family.
The good news comes with a twist however. Our kids are monochorionic diamniotic twins, which means they're sharing the same placenta. Plus, we have early signs of placenta previa. Both of these can cause pre-term labor and some other complications. Since we did not know much about these terms, I've read a lot of information on the web and apparently the best thing to do is to stay positive and stay away from the internet because it just causes a lot of unnecessary stress for things that we cannot control at this time. We live in an under developed country and even though our doctor and the medical facilities are the best in this country, I still want to get enough information from the internet so that I'm completely knowledgeable about the issues, treatments and ways to detect these problems. I'm sure our doctor Lumaan Sheikh and our sonologist are going to get really mad at me asking a lot of questions through out the next few months.
Today S and I went to her university so that she could drop her courses this semester from college. Its a shame because this was her last semester before she got her undergraduate degree, with only 2 months left. Still, she needs to rest as much as possible to avoid any complications. And maybe it's just my perception, but S's belly seems a lot bigger since the last two days :D
