July - News and Updates

Andy and I are both one of three kids.  We are both the oldest of three.  We always pictured our family as having three kids, and we also wanted short-ish age gaps.  Isaac and Lilah are 22 months apart, I am not yet 40, and we thought it was about time to finish growing our family so we could get rid of all the baby gear we are hoarding and then enter and exit the baby stage for the last time.

The good news is, I'm pregnant!  

When I went to my mountain biking festival at the end of April I was feeling better than I had for the lat month.  First trimester fatigue is legit.  I did abandon a skills course in favor of a nap on day 1, but other than that I could barely tell I was about 12 weeks along.

We went for the 12 week scan that Thursday.  The tech was quieter than I remembered at the start. I am a bit of a pessimist about pregnancy related things.  She seemed to sweep back and forth a number of times, and eventually I asked if there was anything in there.  I was increasingly sure she was going to tell me it was a missed miscarriage.  

Instead, she said "I'm going to tell you now, there are two"

I'm not going to document my reply.

So, it's been an interesting few months.  We had our 20 week scan last week, and there are in fact two babies. Both growing, both moving, both making me look far more pregnant than I am. They are fraternal twins (DC/DA, which means basically two separate pregnancies).

It's definitely a lot to wrap my head around.  It's meant that some of my goals are definitely not happening this year (bye bye 10k.).  It's meant that instead of pulling baby gear out of storage we are now scrounging additional baby gear from friends.

It's meant that I am telling work I'll be taking maternity leave in October, just after my one year service in August.

It's meant that this pregnancy does not have as much mountain biking in it as I expected, and I will definitely not be having a home birth (which I did with Lilah, under the care of the NHS, and it was great).

The kids are excited.  I am excited, among other things.  And, there's nothing to be done or changed.  All we can do is make our lives as easy/routine as possible before babies come.  

FYI, this is why we are getting a dishwasher.  I found out about twins on a Thursday.  Friday morning I woke andy up and told Andy we needed a dishwasher and a tumble drier.  I've always wanted a dishwasher, but this was a pretty extreme method of getting one.

Here is a photo that Isaac drew for family day. This is before we told him there are actually two babies in mommy's tummy: