The Low Down

I've noticed that the handful of twin pregnancy moms are doing the same thing I am - not really blogging much.  Mostly, we're pretty quiet because we keep gathering around each others' kitchens with the gin and tonics and gossipping about the rest of you.

Yes, I'm kidding.

I can't speak for the other women (and if I could, I imagine they'd tell me to stop swearing so damn much), but I think it's safe to say that the reason we're suddenly all getting pretty quiet is because that's where we are.  I don't know about them, but suddenly I find myself pulling inwards a lot.  I don't have a lot to say, not because I don't want to talk, but because I'm just pretty quiet inside. The noise and chaos of the previous weeks of pregnancy are dying down now, and it's not that I'm spending all my time thinking about me, me, ME, it's more like...it's just quiet inside. 

I think it means I'm getting ready.

I would bet it's the same for them.

(I'd ask them, but they're usually too drunk on the G&Ts to comment.)

I also find that I'm getting pretty boring-there's only so much blogging about restless leg, infections, and contractions that you want to read about.  I could tell you that my life, it's really all of the same just now - swelling, contractions (in ever-increasing quantities), antibiotics, breathlessness, exhaustion...but I've said it all before. I worry this site is going to be a MySpace wanna be, in which I talk about fucking nothing whatsoever about my day and do it all in skater talk - "DOOOOD!  This site rulez!  Heehee!  LOL!  I have 48,693 friendz, nun who no me!  Time to clean my sk8tes!  C U L8ter!"

I could do that, but seriously, bad grammer drives me nuts.  Send me a text message using "u" instead of "you" and you probably won't get a response because I'm a grown-up, and grown-ups spell shit.  But the content of a MySpace page, well that's not too unlike what I worry this site is becoming - much of the same.  Click on any entry in the past 6 weeks and it's the same.  This must be what latter pregnancy is like - cramps, breathlessness, exhaustion, clumsiness, forgetfulness, and in my case, infections.

Until now.

Now I find myself still having all those fun side effects, only I'm getting quieter.  I am not so fast at replying to emails (also because sitting up in the chair is not easy these days.)  My humor isn't slipping, but it doesn't just come to hand, either (feel free to shout "You were NEVER funny!" at the screen here.  I know I talk to my monitor all the time, go ahead.)  I don't comment on other sites at all, really.  Oh I read them, I just don't say anything.  It's like I'm mute, or stuck behind glass, or in a fog or something.

Better mute than MySpace.

Gotta' go - the ladies are coming to mine for the drinks this afternoon, and no one drinks quite like an IVF veteran, you know?

Comments

[statia]

You on skates (or should I say sk8tes). While you're pregnant. With twins.

LOL OMG UR A rIot!

[thalia]

you blog however much you want to sweetie. But I haven't found you boring or repetitive at all.

Have fun with the G&Ts. Have you found a decent pregnancy substitute drink? I was going ok with virgin margaritas etc., then they started giving me heartburn. Bummer.

[donna]

mmmm.... G&Ts....

So seriously, if you can have dem.erol during childbirth, why not a few vodkas?

[Lut C.]

What prompted this post then? Could you hear me snoring?

Please don't mention drinks. They're just a vague memory.

[watson]

U R awesome, wanna b my BFF?

I'll fly right over for the G&Ts and we can discuss, in great detail, why I also haven't been blogging or commenting much. I'd like to think it was what you said, I'm pulling inwards, getting ready to have the babies on many levels.

But really, I think I'm just too effing lazy!! And my brain is totally scrambled and THAT certainly doesn't help.

[Bea]

I would like to see you post a whole thing about late twin pregnancy entirely in sk8ter talk, though. I don't think I've seen that before. Maybe I don't hang around Myspace enough?

Bea

[Kath]

Boring? U?????????? (Couldn't resist.) Yeah, those stories of infection, threatened labor, hospitalization, pain and terror are just so insipidly dull. And when you write about them in your inimitable style -- yawn!

But anyway. I'm finding myself go quiet too -- just burrowing in somehow.

[Carol]

I would love to bring the limes! A G&T sounds really good right now...

[Amanda]

Just think of it as your down time before the twins bust out! I've heard all sorts of stories from my Mom about how...um...active me and my twin brother were! Just remember they make leashes for toddlers! Haha!

[Tinker]

Ditto, minus a few of your pregnancy aggravations.

Please pass the G&T (or Bitter Lemon if you've got some -- yum! -- I can't get it here in Canada).