I am feeling so incredibly good!  I was aware of how bad I was feeling at the end there, but still, it is amazing.  Just afterwards in the recovery room when the boys weren’t quite an hour old and I was still numb with the shakes from the epidural, I felt better.  I can’t really get around quickly right now, but I have energy again.  I just got home from the hospital this afternoon and I want to mop the kitchen floor.  It needs it badly.  I am in danger of messing myself up by overdoing it.

I can breathe, I can sit up, I can bend over.  I slept on my back every night just because I could.  Also, it isn’t so comfortable to sleep on my side.  I know it takes six weeks for the uterus to shrink back down to size, but still.  After Becca, it was staying inside.  After these boys, I still look pregnant because it flops forward and my poor belly is all stretched to kingdom-come and beyond.  If I lie on my side, it flops over there and gets pretty uncomfortable.

Singleton pregnancies are much easier to handle.  Not that these boys aren’t super awesome.  Just these few days in the hospital they have demonstrated that they will be quite different from Becca as a baby.  Becca had trouble with gas from the get-go.  She would scream and cry with it.  We should have purchased stock in the Mylicon company.  These boys just go right ahead and fart their little heads off without a peep.  Becca was dirtying(poopy) diapers every two hours at least.  The boys are only about once or twice a day.  Becca had to eat every two hours.  The boys go closer to four.  Of course, Becca was a bigger fuller term baby, but still.  So far, and I’m probably jinxing myself, these twins are easier than the one Becca.

So I am planning on pumping some, so that I am not stuck connected to babies for months who will not take bottles.  I pumped this evening after feeding the boys.  Becca had of course never seen these.  She came up to me staring and asking what was going on.  I said, ‘Mommy’s a cow.  moooo!’  Becca thought this was hilarious  and spent the next half hour  saying Becca cow. moo.  Daddy cow. moo.

Douglas started crying and Ben picked him up, put him on his shoulder and patted him on the back.  Becca picked up her baby doll, put her on her shoulder and patted her on the back.

This is going to be so much fun.