Last Tuesday, Alexander and Lukas entered the world via planned cesearan. While having twins wasn't quite our plan, I keep reminding myself how extremely fortunate we are with the way things turned out - We got pregnant quickly. I had an uneventful pregnancy, despite my supposed "high risk" status. My employer was cooperative and helped make my pregnancy easy by allowing me to work from home. I was able to carry the babies to past the 38 week mark (full-term!). It was an uneventful delivery. The babies were both born over 6.5lbs and didn't have any health problems (so we were able to avoid the intensive care nursery). We were even able to leave the hospital a day early. My recovery from the surgery has gone smoothly. Besides the shock of discovering we were having twins, everything went to plan, which is no small feat. It is easy to forget just how many instances there are where something can go wrong.
It's the time in our life when many of our friends are also having kids, so we know of the troubles conceiving, difficult pregnancies, miscarriages, complications during birth, stints in the hospital, and long recoveries from labor. Firsthand experience with Oliver reminds us how difficult/taxing a long labor and emergency Csection were both physically and emotionally, and how tough a stint in the NICU can be (and were lucky then too he was only there for 2 weeks). So many twins are born prematurely and can spend months hooked up to monitors, feeding tubes, etc...
At times when caring for the twins seems too daunting, this is what I remind myself - we are so fortunate the way things turned out. I never want to loose sight of that.
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