Thursday 28 January 2010

Robbed

I just feel robbed.

I could have handled having lost one baby.  I know that statistically, it very well could happen.  And when I saw on the ultrasound that there was no heartbeat, I was sad and crushed, but I knew it was a part of life and the gamble of getting pregnant.

But the chances of naturally getting pregnant with twins are small.  And then to lose them before I ever really knew I had them is worse.  I never got to experience those wild fantasies about my babies, what it would be like to have twins, how they would grow up together. I never got to have the hopeful anxiety over having to raise 4 kids, and what I was going to do at home alone with these 4 kids under the age of 4.  I never got to imagine whether or not they would be identical.  I never got to imagine what it would be like to be a part of that elite group of mothers-of-multiples. I didn't get to have that joy and awe in carrying two lives in my belly.

Because I didn't know until they were gone.

Last night, I lay in bed crying and clutching my belly, riddled with guilt over my babies, knowing that it would be my last night with them.  The last night I would know them and that I would be their mommy.  The last night that I would be a mother of twins.

Because I am not anymore.  I bleed as though they were never there.  I cry because they always will be.

7 comments:

  1. sobbing with your ache now in my own heart

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  2. It's true. They will always be there and you will especially think of them on certain days. My first would have been a Halloween baby, the second a Valentine's. Those days are different now.

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  3. So sorry for your loss. I've been catching up on my blog reading, and was so sad to read this.

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  4. incoherentlyyours1 February 2010 at 08:29

    I'm so sorry. It's not your fault. I really wish I could give you a big hug right now.

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