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zombiemommy
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Lost our first little peanut on 1/17/2012 at 9 weeks and 5 days. We miss you little blessing, but we know you were too perfect for this world.
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PSA to newborn MoMs
zombiemommy
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It gets better. Oh my gosh...it gets soooo much better. When my boys were about 8 weeks old, someone posted something like this and it really helped me to see the light at the end of the tunnel, so I wanted to do the same. Those first three months are so insanely, chaotically difficult, but at 5.5 months, it's an absolute joy to have twins. The days of screaming through witching hour, crazy cluster feeding, and 3am wakefulness all seem like they were a million years ago. The boys interact with each other, smile at absolutely everything, and STTN like champs. By no means is it easy, but it's certainly not the impossible nightmare it was five months ago. So it will get better more rewarding so so soon. Just keep calm and carry on!
Lost our first little peanut on 1/17/2012 at 9 weeks and 5 days. We miss you little blessing, but we know you were too perfect for this world.
My multiples/parenting/pregnancy/miscarriage blog
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Re: PSA to newborn MoMs
I loved 6-9 mo! After they get mobile and realize they have a will, it's a new challenge
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After two Clomid cycles, three injectable IUI cycles, two IVFs, two miscarriages, and one lap surgery, IVF #2 has brought us our little boy!
TTC #2
After months of being postponed or cancelled, FET #1.3 (Natural FET) brought us twin girls!
It keeps getting better and better. Watching them chase each other around now is awesome. Yesterday they held hands and moved in a circle while I sang Ring Around the Rosie and I about died from cuteness.
And on a selfish note, I watch my sister struggle with my nephew because he's just a few months older and doesn't play well alone for very long and think "man am I lucky that they have each other" as I straighten up or start dinner in (relative) peace.
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DH= low motility
2/9/11 lap & hysteroscopy- uterine polyp & scar tissue removed
3/25/11 IUI#1= BFP m/c; D&C at 7w3d (Trisomy 16)
IUIs #2, #3, #4 and #5= BFNs
Onto IVF #1= BFN
FET 4/6/12= 2 extended blasts transferred, with one hatching
Beta 1= 607; Beta 2= 1,564; Beta 3= 24,439; Beta 4= over 64,000
First u/s on 5/10= TWINS! Heartbeats 158 and 160!
It's a boy and a girl!
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"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on." -FDR
Oh my gosh is this ever true. I just told my mom the other day I feel like we've been "stuck" for quite some time now (with how much they are eating, sleeping, etc), and feel like this phase is never going to end.
I'll chime in too to echo the others...it most certainly does get a million times better! We actually ENJOY our sweet babies now rather than just going through the motions of making it through the day without too many tears (yes, tears from me, haha).
It's awful how crazy you can feel when you are operating on NO sleep night after night and having little ones be so dependent on you. My strong marriage of 8.5 years (at the time the babies were born) seemed unrecognizable to me from month 1 - month 4 as DH and I fought over anything and everything because we were so sleep deprived and stretched so thin. We couldn't take our frustrations out on the crying babies so we took it out on each other. My DH who was so, so, so great from day 1 with our first DS seemed completely and utterly overwhelmed by adding 2 more babies to the mix which took me by surprise because he's always been so strong and such a rock. I thought I would be the only one to struggle to adjust, but he definitely did too. I cried my eyes out some nights and begged my friends to pray for us to get some sleep (ours were the crappiest sleeps EVER and truly woke every hour needing soothing for exactly 4 months). I found myself wishing away everyday and always thinking ahead to when the babies were older and life would be better. I loved my babies, absolutely no doubt about that, but I don't feel like I liked them in the beginning because my world was so turned around and I couldn't find a second to try and enjoy them and soak in the moment.
All that to say, everything is back to normal again...well a new normal, but normal nonetheless. The babies sleep through the night, DS just loves his baby brother and sister, DH and I are back to our happy marriage where disagreements come up over important things, but not everyday over nothing, we're exercising (which makes us feel better), getting out with more ease (heck, I can get out with all 3 of mine for multiple errands at once!), going out on date nights, staying up to watch a movie on a Saturday night after the kids are down and still getting rest after. The babies are on a 4 hour schedule now which means I don't feel like all I do is feed babies ALL day and Oliver can actually hold his own bottle which helps a ton. It's hard for me to understand how I ever felt unattached to my twins because I am overwhelmed with love for them now. They are smiling, laughing, and starting to get mobile...they're napping now and I can't wait for them to wake up to play
Hang in there new MoMs because there truly IS light at the end of the tunnel. Great idea to post this OP!
Agreed! 5-6 months was a turning point for us too. Much more enjoyable and fun, even on their fussy days. Not to mention they are just irresistably cute.
Hugs to all the new mamas! It really flies by.
TTC #1 since May 2010. BFP #1 - 5/31/10; m/c on 7/22/10
Started seeing RE in August 2011
5 IUIs: BFN; IVF #1 - Success! BFP - 7/25/12
This gives me hope (and mine aren't even here yet!) :-)