Well, the babies are eating and sleeping and crying and looking around.
Tommy can roll onto his back if he's set down on his front. Tommy will
relax if I put him in a sling carrier, while Catherine just doesn't like
it. (I think she doesn't like that her legs aren't straight under her,
like they are if an adult is holding her upright up to one shoulder.)
I saw my doctor yesterday. I still weigh 20 lbs. more than I did before I
got pregnant, but I should be able to slowly shed that with exercise and
breastfeeding. My episiotomy site hadn't quite healed and the doctor
treated it with something to accelerate the healing. And my abdominal
muscles separated down the middle, and it may be as long as a year before
they're totally joined up again; exercise will help with that.
Dan drove me to the doctor and we took the babies. Everyone in the office
who wanted to see them got the chance to; several folks did so, including
the doctor, and she asked after Tommy's well-being, as he'd had an
interesting delivery and she wanted to make sure there were no lingering
effects from that. His biggest problem right now is that he's a little
colicky. (But Dan hasn't had to haul him downstairs during the second
half of the night for several nights now, whereas he hauled Catherine down
sometime after 5AM this morning.)
And there's a group for parents of twins and higher-order multiples in
Austin, and the monthly meeting was last night. The meetings start out
with everyone together, and after an hour or so of that we go into
breakout groups where we're grouped according to the age of our twins.
This was the first time I'd been with the new mothers (twins ages 0-12
months), and I may have been the only mother in the room who hadn't had
babies spend any time in the NICU. A lot of the discussion was about
various health issues, and either we're being somewhat cavalier about our
babies' health, or we don't have as much to worry about because neither
one was a premie or anything. Not quite sure which. I'm wondering now if
Dan and I should get flu shots, and if Sammy maybe ought to as well. (I
haven't had anything resembling flu since I was in college, but there are
already a bunch of cases in Houston, which isn't so far from here.)
Oh, and I *am* losing some of what's left of my belly -- more skin is
sagging at the bottom of it than was a couple of weeks ago. (The skin
sagging doesn't bother me, the separated muscles does.)
Julia
tired and hoping to get to bed earlier tonight than she's been able to the
past few nights
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