Twins
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My journey towards motherhood was a rocky one. I had an ectopic pregnancy many years back. It was actually very dramatic. I was working in the bush 300 Km from Alice Springs and collapsed just on dusk with incredible pain. I knew I was pregnant and I had started bleeding, never a good sign, friends rushed me to the bush nurse. It was just going dark and there were no landing lights on the airstrip, yet the nurse knew if she sent me by road to hospital I would bleed to death. The Royal flying doctors risked their lives flying in with just the lights of a four wheel drive to pick me up and fly me to Alice Springs Hospital.
I was told that although I would be ok, that I had lost the baby, one fallopian tube, and that the other one was useless due to a disease called Pelvic inflammatory disease. Quite a blow as I had always wanted children. I always knew in the back of my mind that I would have a miracle later on down the track. I had reconstructive surgery on the remaining tube but still failed to get pregnant for years. I remarried and finally fell pregnant at 33 years old. I had my first daughter and two years later I had twins, non identical, quite a miracle by anyones standards. It was however a massive shock to hear that I was pregnant with twins. I was lucky in that I found out very early at five weeks. I was also very lucky in that there were no major medical problems. However just carrying twins is quite a feat. I couldn't walk after about 24 weeks, as I kept threatening to go into labour. I still wanted to shop however and with no home shopping available I would hire an electric wheelchair and direct my husband around the supermarket. I obviously couldnt drive as I was too huge to get behind the wheel. At 34 weeks my waters broke much to my delight as by this time I couldn't sleep eat or breath without difficulty. I ended up having a ceasarian birth, the twin girls were in intensive care nursery for only a week, I think the fact that I breast fed certainly helped here.
This was just the beginning of a hugely difficult period in my life, the girls and I were all constantly very ill, in and out of hospital like yoyos and when the twins were six months old me and my husband separated. It was finally discovered that we had a mould in our rented house that was killing us all, so I then became homeless. Thankfully this situation lasted only for ten days, after which I found another home and my life was changed for ever by the wonderful healing technique that I was given. For anybody out there struggling with multiples, contact your local multiples club, they can offer you so much help and lets face it you can do with any help that is offered.
