14w

Made it to 14 weeks, which means my chance of miscarry at this point is extremely low. Somehow I still don't feel anymore confident that this pregnancy is going to result in two living, breathing babies. Maybe I read too much online about women who, with perfectly normal uteruses, lose their babies around 18 weeks. Maybe I would be better off not knowing all that I know about my poor unicornuate uterus. Which, when I think about it, is really not a whole lot. I know about unicornuate uteruses in general and that some are capable of acting completely normal but the vast majority of them do have issues carrying a SINGLE baby to term. But, I don't know anything about my unicornuate uterus. Sometimes I think of myself as a really lucky person. I am not even sure I really believe in luck, and yet I know I have had some. I have done some seriously stupid things in my life, made some of the worst decisions a person could make. Although I do have a few scars, the outcome of some of those horrible decisions somehow turned out perfectly fine. Even through all these years of uterine issues, I have had luck. I never had a miscarriage. I ended up with two wonderful sons. While practically everyone else I spoke to going through the adoption process at the same time we did had to jump through hurdle after hurdle, and disaster after disaster, both our kids came home rather quickly and 100% healthy. Even when I did end up getting pregnant in my rudimentary horn and had that great fiasco, as horrible as it was, it was also even a miracle that something like that could happen! So here's to one more shot at beating the odds.

I started making a good attempt yesterday at trying to eat all the servings of foods from all the different food groups as recommended in When You're Expecting Twins, Triplets, or Quads. I ate all day long and stuffed myself to the max and still came up substantially short. Today I gave it another go and although I have done better so far, I only have about another hour and a half to attempt to eat more food than I usually eat during the course of an entire day.

I haven't been out much so I haven't really seen my neighbors lately. I ran into the woman who lives on my street. (There are only 2 houses on my street.) I told her that we were expecting twins. I didn't know before, but she said she has an identical twin sister. The next house closest to us houses three children, two of which are twins. Now we are expecting our twins. Three twins in three houses? What are the odds?