24 June 2012
So today I celebrate my twin girls 2nd birthday.
Time has passed amazingly quick and if I'm honest the first year was a bit of a blur. For about 3 months following their birth I was in a euphoric, sleep deprived state. I didn't go out much as life was one big feedathon!
I tandem fed the girls and with one baby it's easy to discreetly breast-feed one babe...it was bloody impossible getting a pair of football sized baps out at the same time to feed two hungry babies.
Now I'm not normally shy about such things but I was not ready to get my bad boys out in public whilst feeding the girls for love nor money.
I was fortunate I had a lot of help from friends with the school runs for the other children and my then 17 year old son sacrificed college willingly as he hated it anyway...he was employed as Deputy Daddy, a role that he was perfect at and in fairness he saved my life in many ways as I really don't know how I would of managed without him.
You see I hate it when a newborn cries and is left to cry, I believe that a newborns way of communicating is through crying, be it they are hungry, wet nappy, wind or just lonely...I've always been an overly attentive mummy and the thought of having to leave one to cry whilst attending to the other filled me with dread.
However Deputy Daddy was always there in the early days to help me, he truly deserved an award...however I think I may have put him off for life as he states to all who'll listen that he is never getting married and never having kids!!
Our journey began Christmas eve 2009...it was then at my 12 week scan we officially found out that we were expecting twins...although due to the severe sickness and tiredness and a deep rooted sense that it was my destiny to have twins, I already knew!
It may sound weird but within the family we all used to joke about one of us having twins, a friend was expecting twin boys when I first discovered I was pregnant and I just knew I was going to have twins and I knew it would be girls.
We had a sneak peek into our girls world when we paid for a private 4D scan at 26 weeks, it was then it was confirmed that I had two little girls in there.
Although they looked like little pickled aliens, to us they were the most perfect little wrinklies we had ever seen.
The pregnancy went very smoothly, apart from the fact that from 4 months on I was indeed the size of a large shed, with rhino feet that only rested on top of a flip flop, and had two items of clothing that I could wear which were my pregnancy dresses, one pink and one turquoise...
At 38 weeks and 2 days it was decided that the girls were to be induced as twin 2 was not growing anymore and I had been contracting for two weeks and not getting anywhere so was thankful to finally get things going and to be able to say hello to my feet again.
I had my waters broken and literally gave the poor midwife an amniotic shower so she went and got changed whilst I was left doing my flamingo dance, where I am rocking my hips from side to side, whilst bringing up my one leg and swaying on the other.
Twin one was naturally delivered at 4.20pm and her sister, twin 2 was born at 4.26pm...yep peeps I had two babies come out of my Madam Wonderful within half an hour of each other...Madam was like an open air Theatre afterwards.... pelvic floor exercises became a must and even as I'm writing this it's CLENCH IN....HOLD....RELEASE.
So there was little old me holding two beautiful girlies in my arms, walking like John Wayne, a body that I daren't even catch sight of in a mirror....but I was blissfully happy.
Now it's their 2nd birthday, I'm proud of us as a family, how we have coped with the dynamics change within the family and how well the kids have adapted to having two little ladies completely dominate the house and not once has the kids been jealous or resentful towards our girlies.
So I'm now affectionately called by my friends six kids Kim, I have been left with nipples so big from all the breast feeding, I now proudly sport a pair of telescopic tits and a real curvy body that I have really had to try to love.
But for what I may have lost, I only need to look around to see what I've gained, I have been blessed with 6 adorable children, having my twin girls made me feel special, like I had been chosen to have them for a reason.
I fall in love with them more and more each day and feel completed as a mummy and indeed our family has been completed too.
Twin one who we named Maisy is shy, sensitive, loving, caring and independent.
Twin two who we named Ella is outgoing, chatty, funny, bossy and scatty ( a real mini me )....I look forward to many more birthdays and watching them reach milestones. I am so very lucky to have them and indeed all my other children, and although some days are tough, I wouldn't change a thing.
Now the children are growing up I look forward to being called a MILF a few more times and being a mummy that my kids are proud to have.
Oops I Did It Again...Double whammy, Rhino Feet And Amniotic Shower • Opuss № I