My first year with twins; bedrest

I can NOT even believe we are already coming up on a year of the birth of our Chiklits this week! And what better time to take a stroll down memory lane and share my thoughts on the past year. I will hold back nothing; poop, breastfeeding...so if this is TMI for anyone this is your fair warning now!

I felt it appropriate to start with being put on bedrest for 14 weeks! Yup 14 LONG ONES!! I'm not one that's a fan of resting for very long, let alone laid up on my back for more than a few days when I feel totally fine! Besides the total shock of being told this was my outcome at 24 weeks preggo! I probably went through every emotion imaginable. Shock, confusion, anger, pity, a little depression, and even glee toward the end when we were getting pounded with snowstorms and I was getting uncomfortable from carrying 2 babies!

My awesome friends and family kept me entertained with phone calls and visits and without those I may have slipped into an all out depression! At the time I didn't even have any interest in anything besides laying on the couch and drowning out my days with TV talk shows, Days Of Our Lives, and sitcom re-runs. I wasn't even interested in reading which is one of my all time favorite things to do.

Looking back now I see all the things I could have done with all that time I wasted away [I know, I know it wasn't wasted, I was incubating two babies to a healthy gestation period - which is thus far the most important thing I've ever had to do in my life]. But boy, all the knitting and crocheting I could have done to get my Etsy shop underway. I was just too deep into a funk that I couldn't see outside my fog. It probably would have been an excellent time to journal or blog as well but like I said, all my usual interests were no where to be found.

And I'm not sure what would have happened if I went against the Dr.s orders but I'm forever grateful to them for putting me on bedrest (even though, at the time, it was 3.5 months of hell for me) b/c while we had ourselves prepared for every situation possible for their births our outcome was exactly what every parent wishes for. And in retro-spec I should be grateful for the 14 weeks of R&R b/c I'll never have that again! And it was totally worth it!