Twins : Bliss and BlessMarch 23, 2018

Hey everyone, I would like to share our TWIN story!!

4th December 2007- the day I got to know I was pregnant. The thought of a little buddle of joy turning our lives around just gave a chill up my spine. My husband wasn’t in town, when I called to tell him; he said “I will call you back!” I didn’t quite understand why he reacted like that then. Apparently, he needed some time to digest the fact. After a month long wait, we got an appointment for the doctor we wanted to have the delivery with. The initial medications were given by another known doctor. On 10th Jan 2008 an army was with me to meet the doctor. My over excited parents, a happy cousin, the anxious husband and the extremely thrilled me walked into her office. Call it courtesy or professionalism, she let everyone in. About 10 mins after my scan, the doctor rushed out saying, “I will call in your husband”. My eyes were glued to what I saw on the screen and I really didn't know what to make out of what I saw on the screen. Once he came in, she said “Do you see this image? These are the BABIES, you are having TWINS!!!!” My dear husband was shell-shocked. For me, it was my lifelong dream come true. Maybe that's why they say, when your heart really wants something, the whole universe conspires to make it happen. Honestly, I doubt, there is any word in the English language that can fully describe what we felt after listening to that little heart beating away. Leaving the doctor's office was a roller coaster of emotions - happy, excited, tensed, anxious but above all gratitude for the blessing given to us. We shared our happy news with my parents in law and brother in law, they were dumb struck, and excited.

The months that followed, I had my monthly check ups and with God's grace the babies were hyper active and growing fine. The doctor was really nice she patiently answered all my queries. My mom had been a nurse so things were sorted. I kind of had an in house doctor at my disposal. I moved in with my parents in Dubai, where my doctor was. During the 1st trimester I had a bit of morning sickness and couldn’t take some aromas. I always had a bottle of water and a vomiting bag on me. My husband was working in Abu Dhabi. He couldn’t make it for all the appointments, but he managed to come for a few when he would hear the heart beats and many times I noticed tears rolling. Guess it touched him really deep. 
We used to collect scan images as we were making a babies scrapbook (which is helping me a lot to write this article). After the 4th month, I could feel the movements. I will never know but one of my twins was most active at night. The best moments of my pregnancy was whenever I played music I could feel their kicks. There were times for long intervals they wouldn’t move I used to get worried sick, sometimes played music just to feel their movements. I also think they knew their dad was home, because when he spoke loud enough, I was getting double the kicks.

We had started setting up the nursery. Hubby wasn't much into décor so I went in full swing with my Winnie the Pooh theme. We made it a point to spend time in the nursery sometimes just talking to my unborn darlings or even a few times read small story books. Talking to them before they are born does help.

I was blessed not to have much issues during my pregnancy. To add to that, I had family and friends to help me out. The only aches and pains I had were swollen feet and a statica pain which used to be off and on and mainly when trying to switch sides when lying down. And of course, I was growing bigger and bigger but I used to love flaunting my baby bump; mood swings were more than I could handle. I worked back then and continued till the end of my 2nd trimester. My colleagues were very helpful at work they understood my mood swings and my love for food. When I resigned, my in laws came to spend some time with us. My big baby bump took them for surprise!! Mommy in law joined me for my appointment with the doctor. So she also got a glimpse of her to be grandkids. The doctor told us they are fraternal twins, there was so could also be a boy and girl. We had chosen not to know the gender, but by mistake the doctor told us. By then I was into my last trimester and had started to feel more tired and legs aches had increased. Doctor had suggested to continue with my walks, which I did do only at shopping malls so that I could do window shopping. I always think with a smile how my husband and parents had a “Godh bharai” which we usually don’t have that tradition. After which my in laws returned to India.

So now we started having an appointment every 2 weeks and a full scan. Everything was going fine, till we went for the full scan. The doctor said one of the babies had a very small hole in the heart. It really caught me off guard. I didn’t know if that happened cause I didn’t do something right or how serious it was. All of us got a little worried. Somehow I held myself together through the visit, thankfully the doc explained that it was a very small one and we had to do a check up 2 or 3 months after he/she was born. So my mom suggested we do another scan at another hospital with a known doctor to get a 2nd opinion. I was admitted for a 1 day in the hospital and the doctor confirmed that the hole in the heart was small and usually as babies grow the hole closes. So we just prayed and continued doing what we did. Eat properly, walks and so on. We even did a Doppler scan and got to see one of the baby’s face and the other baby just refused we tried nudging but finally gave up after trying for some time. Was a great feeling to see who has been kicking you all this while, the little face the little nose, cute little fingers and toes. Felt totally blessed. Doctor had mentioned one of the babies is a little smaller than but everything is fine.

The doctor said approximate date of delivery was August 8th. But by the end of June I started to find it difficult to walk with my baby bump and swelling on my feet increased. I felt I was ready to deliver. I had been watching a few delivery videos and got really scared. I felt I was not up for all that. So we discussed with the doc and took appointment for c-section on the 26th July. The doctors also didn’t say otherwise case being twins. My cousin once told me “You won’t remember the normal delivery pain till you come back for your second delivery” which is honestly very true. 2 weeks before my delivery I experienced severe itching on my hands and legs and to top it caught a cold and had bad body pain which gave me sleepless nights. On 9th of July late evening I couldn’t feel the movement of one of the babies which got me worried and felt I had some sort of discharge wasn’t sure it was water or something else so we rushed to the hospital. The duty Doc examined me (internally) and confirmed everything was alright she gave me a med for my itch and said there was baby movement and heart beat was fine nothing to worry and sent me home. None of us thought we would be heading back to the hospital in another few hrs.

July 10th early morning I felt my water break in my sleep, luckily mom was with me, quickly grabbed the hospital bag & my worried dad drove us to the hospital, I could see how tensed he was. Upon arrival at the hospital the doc examined and said I have started dilating but just a few centimeters we had to wait. The contractions came in intervals was bearable, but I was so tired and just wanted to sleep for a while. Carrying twins C section was always an option, they started preparing me for the same. Contractions got stronger and the intervals were less, the nurses cold reactions to my pain got me annoyed. The operation theater was booked for 8.30 and my doc just walked into the room at 7.30 AM to check how things were, she said I had started to crown and suddenly there was a lot of chaos in the room. Mom stayed back and everyone left the room. “Prepare for normal delivery” my doc said. There was no time to think or feel anything as everything happen fast. I said no to epidural so there was pain but with not many pushes at 7. 40 AM my 1st bundle of baby boy joy was born. My 2nd one wasn’t ready to come out. It took me 10 minutes of worrying and a lot of pushes to bring him out at 7.50 AM. Yes, it was my 2nd bundle of boy joy! Safe delivery and boys were ok!

Twenty fingers twenty toes, plenty of work heaven knows, 4 little arms to hold tight, four little cheeks to kiss night after night. Ishan and Arnav are turning 10 this year. The joy both radiate just keeps growing.

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