Big Yikes!!!

I've been so consumed with the everyday going-ons that it only just hit me that I'm supposed to have the babies next week! I am flying home with Eddie in 3 days time. "Oh gosh," as Eddie would say.

On the upside, I don't have time to fret over things I have no control over. My time is very stretched and divided between all my loved ones, plus the stupid car which keeps going back into the garage. Bleah, which reminds me I need to get the windows tinted by Wednesday!!! Bake and freeze an Oreo cheesecake. Oh, and order tiffin dinner for a week! Aiks, pay car road tax... oh gosh... I need to make a proper list of things to do.

The only thing I've bought for the babies is ONE set of clothes. hehehe... One will have the top and the other one the bottom I suppose. Yesterday Sig.Ot bought 5 bags of diapers!!! Looks like we are all set for the poop.

I am not very sure how I feel, a mixture of everything of course; fear, worry, panic. Like I have said before I am not a very baby person, ironic yes, so it will take some time before I am overwhelmed with happiness and glee.

Roll with it

I thought twins should only happen to people like Angelina Jolie.

I still cannot understand why I am pregnant with twins.

I do not fall under any of the categories which make you more likely to have twins:-

a. African
b. Over 35 years old
c. Consumption of fertility drugs
d. Undergoing IVF
e. Family with history of twins

This is what I call a random throw of nature's dice.

The Unexpectedness

I always look forward to my ob-gy appointments! I love looking at the scans. But this time round, I was also a little bit worried as I have been ill the whole of last weekend. I came down with fever and very bad sorethroat. Luckily after countless mugs of warm drink of honey + lemon slices, the sorethroat went away without manifesting into cold or cough. In a perverse way, I do hope that I did catch H1N1 and survived with milder symptoms. That way, my body would have now developed some form of immunity towards it.

I went to see my new ob-gy today. My appointment was at 3.50pm and when I arrived there, there were at least 6 more patients already waiting there. Sigh.. she was one of the more common specialists who have got loads of patients crammed into her appointment book. (My previous ob-gy at Thomson was the best. I never had to wait more than 5 minutes for my appointment, every time!)

Almost an hour later, my name was called. My appointment this time round was to check for the baby's heartbeat. Off I went to the bed, cold KY on my belly and ob-gy could not see anything. Apparently full bladder was essential.

So another scanner was called for, the more uncomfortable type. By that time I was a little bit worried because the dot may have disappeared! So the doc did her thing, and the nurse pointed at the screen. Doc did a double take then she went "oh." Come on, that got me bloody worried! And she said, "You are carrying twins!"

Me? I burst into tears.