![]() ![]() Someone with a regular 28-day menstrual cycle usually ovulates around day 14. The reason is that most people don’t know exactly when they ovulated or conceived. If you conceive naturally, the estimated due date is usually determined based on the first day of your last period, not from the date of conception. View all posts by Doreen DiCrecchio here.Typically, pregnancy lasts for about 40 weeks, or 280 days. Writing (among other things) makes me happy. I love to write about my passions and anything else that interests me including cooking, baking, and reading. I am passionate about my children, my grandchildren, my dog, practicing yoga, and my two favorite sports, football and soccer. Well this year they will be 36 so I’ll let you know if I wake up!Ī ’60’s baby who had ’80’s babies. And as they get older, I think maybe I won’t wake up. I know I’m not alone with this phenomenon since other moms have said it also happens to them. I know all moms have that feeling.Įvery year on January 30 I wake up around 3:00 am and I never can fall asleep until after 5:00 am. A few hours later, when they were brought to my room, I thought they were perfect, beautiful babies. It really was since his sister had been sitting on it! And her face was perfect but boy was she loud! She could screech with the best of them. The first thing I thought when I saw my son was wow his face is smushed. Yes, apparently they doubled their weight in 10 days. Once I heard boy I remember thinking for the next 60 seconds please say girl, please say girl and at 4:55 am I heard “and it’s a girl!” YAY! I had a boy and a girl! He weighed 6 pounds and she weighed 5 pounds 15 ounces. I remember feeling the first cut or two and feeling the doctor pull the first baby (a boy!) out at 4:54 am on Monday January 30. So time to get the medical staff assembled and get me prepped for the C-section! That epidural hurt like a b*tch but then the pain subsided. When I arrived at the hospital around 3 am I was examined and lo and behold was 8 centimeters dilated! My water never broke. And in my defense, I had no one to ask since I was the first of my friends to have a baby and I was adopted so my mom didn’t give birth. I honestly did not realize I was in labor since the pain was only in my back. I received a call back around 1 am and was told to get to the hospital. Finally around 11 pm on January 29, I called the doctor since the pain was steady. It continued on and off for the next 48 hours. But then during the evening of January 27 I started getting some back pain. I chose to sign myself out on January 21 and went home to rest. ![]() And now for the horrible part, they wanted me to stay in the hospital until then. Based on that and the discovery that one baby was breech (feet first), my doctors scheduled a C-section for February 6. According to the ultrasound, both babies were about 3 pounds each with 4 weeks to go. I went to the hospital and the first thing they did was an ultrasound. Then there was the doctor’s appointment on January 19 when the doctor said I was 3 cm dilated so he wanted me to get to the hospital for monitoring. Since there were no registries back then, I got a lot of clothes I didn’t like! However, I did get a lot of diapers which was a good thing. Eventually she told me about the baby shower so I would go with her. She obviously insisted since she needed to get me to the shower. I remember my sister-in-law came to pick me up for dinner but I was feeling really tired and told her I wasn’t up to it. We waited until the baby was born to give any gifts. My mother-in-law threw the party since my family did not believe in baby showers. January 15 was the day of my baby shower. Now remember this was back in the day where gender reveal parties didn’t happen since we found out boy or girl upon birth. ![]() And the only twins I ever knew from school were a boy and a girl. Probably because I grew up the older sister to a brother. I had a hard time imagining two boys or two girls. I also remember thinking that I hoped it was a boy and a girl. After the initial freak out, I thought, “How cool!”. When I was 19 years old, I found out that not only was I pregnant, I was having twins. Even though they will be 36 this year (2020), I still remember everything from that month quite vividly especially a few of the days.Īs you might have guessed, I am the lucky mother of twins. Why would I start a countdown the day after New Year’s Eve? I always count down to the day my kids were born, January 30. Every January 1st the countdown begins for me. ![]()
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