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The Reality - Back Story - Part 8
2008-02-13 23:25:00
April 2006 and Emma was discharged a few days after popping the girls out and I was already back at work. I planned to take two weeks off when the girls came home.The Special Care Baby Unit, for me took a while to get used to. It was full of very small, mostly premature babies that needed all the help that they could get in the first few weeks of their lives. There were machines everywhere, to help them breath to monitor them and to feed them. At the start Lilly and Amy were attached to everything. There were nurses and doctors constantly buzzing around taking blood and checking them constantly.The procedures were simple in there, babies started out at the furthest end of the unit in intensive care. As they got stronger they would move into a communal area then into their own little room and finally into a flat where the babies and parents would stay for a couple of days before going home. All of these rooms were set out so that the better the babies got the closer to the exit you w...
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The Birth - Back Story - Part 7
2008-02-12 18:46:00
I had a seat next to Emma and I held her hand all of the time and quite far enough away from the business end. I don?t think I was the cliché man, I sat there giving her encouraging smiles and not shouting out and breathing with her and actually pretending that I had any idea what she must have been going through.What followed was about an hour or so of contractions and pushing. I had the machine near me and could see the babies heart beats and the contractions. I figured out when the contractions were coming and I knew when the midwife was going to tell Emma to push. Emma on the other hand had no idea when the contractions were coming because she couldn?t feel a single thing. This was becoming a problem because as much as she was pushing nothing was moving south.A doctor was called in to do an assisted birth. I recognised her from one of the appointments that we had. She explained that the babies heart beats were starting to become a little slower and it was time to give them some ...
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Five Popular Twin Related Questions
2008-02-10 18:11:00
When my girls were small babies, they got attention well because they were very sweet but also because there were two of them riding around in double stroller (which was at the time the size of a small tank).When my wife and I went out shopping or went for a wander around, most people would just look and smile and then we would here ?look twins?. Some, mostly women would come up to us and we would answer the same questions over and over (with a polite smile on our faces):* ?Double trouble hey?? By far the most popular. This would be when we would laugh slightly (and entertain that we had never heard that before) and say ?yes?.* ?Are there twins in the family??Now this is a valid question and I would answer honestly and say ?Yes both sides of the family have twins in generations before us?. In my mind though I just wanted to say ?No, my wife is just very liberal with her eggs?* ?Are they Identical??If you put two babies from two different families (or even origins in some cases) I th...
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The Preparation - Back Story - Part 6
2008-02-08 10:41:00
What Follows is the most surreal 5 Hours of my life. In the preparation room there were all sorts of stuff that I recognised as hospital things but that was it. I don?t remember there being a computer in that room above the bed. That was a statement in itself ?This must be the business room, no time to lie around and watch TV here? I thought to myself. A midwife came in; she looked like she had delivered a million children before these because she was very calm and confident. She went through the usual stuff and asked Emma what pain relief she wanted. It looked like she was going to give birth naturally but because of the twins it would be advisable to have an epidural just in case they had to do an emergency C section but we had never really got to the stage of talking about that sort of thing. So she said epidural. Emma was then introduced to gas and air, she was still having contractions but now she could breathe in the gas and air as she was going through them.A specialist came ...
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Knowledge is Power
2008-02-07 00:28:00
I cannot believe it, after spending the whole of their curious lives taking books, ripping them, generally dribbling over them and chewing on them, my girls have started this week to actually open these square things and look at the pictures inside.As well as that, they point at things in the books and attempt to name it or make an associated noise attached to it.Amy and Lilly will both sit on my knee with a book. Amy already has a favourite that she wont let Lilly near and if she does, cries and says ?ta, ta? a lot until she gets it back. But most of the time it?s learning central and we have a two way or 3 way interaction which is another new and great experience.I think I am going to encourage this behaviour more. Who Knows, it might lead them into getting some sort of employment in the long run.
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"Happy 33rd" - Back Story - Part 5
2008-02-06 11:10:00
Is what I said to Emma when I woke up that Thursday morning. I was referring to her 33rd week of being pregnant with our so far unsexed twins. I had being saying that for the last couple of Thursdays almost as a countdown. I got ready for work, kissed her good bye (no breakfast, bad boy) and I made the usual 50 mile, 1hour 30 minutes trip to work.It was only my 3rd week at my new job so I was just finding my feet. I got in early; my first job of the day was to make a cup of tea for myself. I exchanged pleasantries with a couple of people in the kitchen and then headed back to my desk. I logged into my PC and the fancy telephone software on there had told me I had a missed call. It was home and I had missed it by about 30 seconds. I called back straight away, it was engaged. My mind started to race. I left it a minute and called back.Emma answered I asked whether she was okay, she said ?No, my waters have just broke?, ?Oh crap? I thought to myself ?I?m on my way? I said out loud to h...
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The Pregnancy - Back Story - Part 4
2008-02-04 23:26:00
We did everything right, Emma took all the pills and vitamins to give them all the good stuff they needed in there and she took it easy. She had all of the checkups regularly and she had a 20 week scan. There were to be at least 2 more scans before the big day. We took a few pictures of Emma?s bump as she got bigger and bigger. We had the usual happy milestones as well, the first movements and the first time I felt them kick.We attended some antenatal classes with a midwife and a few other people. This was to give us an idea about what was to come in the birth she talked about stuff showed us a video the usual stuff I guess. She also showed us some implements that typically get used in a birth, one of which was, in her words the worst case scenario which were a set of steel forceps that could go around the babies head and pull it out if necessary. She said that this was rarely used though. We got a heart Doppler from eBay so that we could listen to their heart beats whenever we want...
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The 13 Week Scan - Back Story - Part 3
2008-02-03 19:16:00
November 2005. We were nervous and excited. Emma was feeling semi okay this afternoon as the morning sickness had worn off a little. When I say morning sickness I realised quite quickly that it meant throwing up any time of the day or night, they don?t tell you that little fact.We waited as each couple went in and out with their files and folder full of new baby stuff. They called out Emma?s name, my heart did that thing where it seems to move half way up your chest. This was it.Emma lay on the bed; there was a TV screen above the end of the bed where we both could see the event. The sonographer said some stuff about what was going to happen. The gel went on Emma?s stomach, the sonographer turned out the light and it was show time.Within about a minute of me staring at stuff on the screen I didn?t really understand, the sonographer came out with ?are you seeing what I?m seeing? Emma said ?is it twins?? the sonographer nodded her head.After my first reaction of ?Oh My God? I sat the...
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A Different Perspective
2008-02-01 23:33:00
I took this picture a couple of months ago now but I am quite impressed with myself because I think that this is the first arty photograph I have taken. Amy and Lilly were playing near the wall and the sun was just coming through the window. They started to play with the shadows ( and fight a bit about who could get nearer) and I managed to run upstairs, grab my camera and take the shot. This is amazing really because usually as soon as they see me taking a picture, they start to walk towards me wanting to touch the camera.Anyway, I like the picture. What do you think?
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The Positive Test - Back Story - Part 2
2008-02-01 20:33:00
It was September 2005 and it had been a few weeks after our first try (I?m sure there is a technical term for it). Emma had a feeling she was pregnant. We were at a friend?s house after staying the night and it was a Sunday morning. My friends were still in bed and after about half an hour of getting up we decided to go. We said our good byes and set off the one hundred or so mile trip back home. Almost home and we decided to get a pregnancy test, both of us not really thinking that it would happen this quick.The village chemist was shut so we went to the nearest town and found a place open. I was shrewd and purchased a three pack of tests thinking about the future, plus they were on offer. We got home and read the instructions, pee here and wait five minutes, best time to test is first thing in the morning. We both wanted to know in five minutes time not in the morning so she went and peed on the stick.It was a fairly non eventful five minutes we looked at each other every now and ...
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The Decision - Back Story - Part 1
2008-01-31 23:11:00
It took me ages to come around to the idea of having children. I did want them but this to me was the last step into full mature adulthood. My wife Emma and I had been married for just over eight years and in that time we had had fun, moved into a nice house and had holidays abroad. I thought a few times that we never had enough money to start a family until one day I thought "That?s it if we carry on thinking about money then it will never happen, lets just do it" (pardon the pun).
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Contact
2008-01-31 21:35:00
If you wish to contact me, my email is michaelsblogs@gmail.com I will try and respond to any email I receive Michael
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About This Blog
2008-01-31 21:34:00
I am the only man in a house of 3 females and this blog is here to tell my story?.My Name Is Michael, I am 32 years old and I work in IT for a living. I am a geek at heart and I love gadgets and gizmos.I am married to Emma and have been for 10 years. We have beautiful twin girls, Amy and Lilly, born in March 2006. They are non identical and they have very different personalities.I have created this blog to document what it is to be a husband and a father to twins. My experience, my stories and anything I find that is either informational or darn right funny about it all.Like every blog, things have to start somewhere, so why not start here. I like to call it back story. This is where it all began for me and Emma when we started trying for children.I hope you enjoy the ride as much as I will. Feel free to contact me.Michael
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