You are now twice as big as the girl in accounts who is due one month before you.
You may not have told anyone except your closest work friends, but quite frankly no one could miss the fact you have been wearing tents for a month and spend more time in the bathroom than at your desk.
It’s time to write a letter to your boss advising him that you’re pregnant, because he is now the only one in the office who doesn’t know.
At your next visit the obstetrician will do all the same tests and provide you with a letter for your employer confirming you are pregnant and your expected date of confinement.
After congratulating you on twins, the doctor will advise you that unlike a standard pregnancy you will be required to finish work at 28 weeks. This will impact on your maternity leave and your budget.
You ask him if it’s normal to feel stabbing pain on the sides of your lower abdomen. If this is the only symptom, the doctor will tell you it is probably the uterus pulling on the round ligaments, stretching them to allow room for the babies to grow.
This can be very uncomfortable and because your uterus is growing at twice the rate, the stretching is even more severe.
And by stretch, I mean think about that moment at the end of winter when you try and pour yourself into your skinny jeans. Those agonizing minutes when you realize you’re in, but you still have to face the zipper.
You go for your scheduled ultrasound. The lights are turned down and you watch fascinated as you see the two little ones in full profile.
DH sits open-mouthed beside you, amazed at how much they look like tiny humans with all their fingers and toes. For some reason he was still imagining tadpoles.
You cross your fingers that the recording is working. This is something you don’t want to miss.
Besides, you have at least two dozen family and friends that will be forced to sit through it with a commentary in excruciating detail.
You can see mouths opening and closing. A baby rolling away from the scanner as it presses into your abdomen and disturbs its position.
They can’t yet tell you the sex, which is good because you and DH are still debating whether you really want to know.
Everything looks fine. The babies appear to be monochorionic diamniotic which suggests they are identical. The ultrasound and blood results are sent off for analysis while you wait in the café next door.
You sweat it out for an hour wondering how you’ll cope if it suggests one or both of the babies has a genetic disorder. Of course no-one can answer that question, you simply cross everything and hope it’s a bridge you don’t have to cross.
The AFP scores come in and everything appears fine. You are given the option of an amniocentesis – the only way of knowing for sure your babies do not have Down Syndrome. However it carries a risk of miscarriage and your AFP was good so you decline.
You celebrate with another cream bun… your third for the morning. What the heck… you’re eating for three!
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