Twins Pregnancy…A Father’s Point of View

Written by Dan Brunkow


So you’re expecting twins. Congratulations!

Are you still in shock? I sure was. The thought of bringing two babies intorepparttar world at one time scaredrepparttar 110266 heck out of me, especially since I was alreadyrepparttar 110267 father of two boys (ages five and three). I remembered how much workrepparttar 110268 first year was with both of them, with all ofrepparttar 110269 diapers,repparttar 110270 bottles,repparttar 110271 sleepless nights, etc… I wondered how inrepparttar 110272 world we were going to do it with two babies? I immediately started stressing out about all of things that we were going to go through oncerepparttar 110273 babies were born. Little did I know atrepparttar 110274 time thatrepparttar 110275 most stressful part of having twins was already upon us…the pregnancy.

I did not know atrepparttar 110276 time that a twin pregnancy is not at all like a single pregnancy. With our first two pregnancies, it was relatively low impact for me (I know, all ofrepparttar 110277 women reading this are rolling their eyes, especially my wife). But to my wife’s credit, it’s true. I figured I had about eight months to play as much golf as I could beforerepparttar 110278 birth ofrepparttar 110279 twins, and that’s when I would really have to become involved. After all, my work was already done forrepparttar 110280 time being, right? Boy, was I wrong!

There are many things that happened duringrepparttar 110281 pregnancy that surprised me, or that no one told me about. I’d like to tell you about some of those things here, so maybe you’ll be a little more prepared for what happens during a twin pregnancy than I was.

First, pre-term labor is fairly common in a twin pregnancy. I didn’t even know what pre-term labor was until it happened to my wife. This was definitelyrepparttar 110282 most stressful thing aboutrepparttar 110283 pregnancy, and it’s something that I don’t remember anyone warning me about. Maybe my wife mentioned it to me, but you know how it is, there was probably a ball game or something. My wife went to a routine check-up at aboutrepparttar 110284 25th week of pregnancy. After being gone for an abnormally long time, she phoned me fromrepparttar 110285 hospital and told me that they were keeping her overnight because she was having contractions. What a shock! I couldn’t understand how that could be so early inrepparttar 110286 pregnancy. The babies were less than 3 lbs. each atrepparttar 110287 time, so we were both extremely worried. They wound up giving her medication to stop labor and kept her inrepparttar 110288 hospital for a couple of days. This wasrepparttar 110289 first of four trips torepparttar 110290 hospital to stop labor. The good news was thatrepparttar 110291 medication that they gave her successfully stoppedrepparttar 110292 contractions each time, and she was able to carryrepparttar 110293 twins past 36 weeks.

Second, prepare for bed rest. My wife wound up going on bed rest for aboutrepparttar 110294 last four weeks ofrepparttar 110295 pregnancy. This is a very common occurrence for a twin pregnancy, so you need to prepare yourselves for it. We were fairly lucky because my wife was a stay at home mother, so we did not have to worry about her taking time off from her job. We were also very fortunate that my mother-in-law was able to come and stay with us during that time to help with our two boys and to help out aroundrepparttar 110296 house. I’m not sure what we would have done without her. My advice is to recruit family and friends if you can to help out. But however you do it, take bed rest very seriously. Make sure you’re wife stays off of her feet. There’s a good reason why many mothers of twins are put on bed rest by their doctor, and that’s so she doesn’t go into labor too early. You want your wife to carry those babies as long as she can forrepparttar 110297 health of your twins. Oh, and needless to say, golf was just not an option while my wife was on bed rest.

Body Piercing, Is There Anything Wrong With It?

Written by David Kunstek


When you spend a day atrepparttar mall, you see people with body piercings. Perhaps you see someone with a nose ring. Another may have a belly button ring. In fact, you may see people with some really crazy body piercing. Is there any reason that people should not have so many body piercings? When it all comes down to it, it is everyone's separate decision to be made, but we must ask, is there anything wrong with it, really?


Body piercing is popular, especially among teens. Something that once started as earrings led torepparttar 110265 piercing of many other body parts. Do you have your ears pierced? Is there something wrong with people who have their ears pierced? Many teens find body piercing to be a way of self expression and a way to rebel. Today, people get their noses, tongues, eye brows, belly buttons and even other places pierced. You can go into any jewelry store atrepparttar 110266 mall and find belly button and eye brow rings. The jewelry itself is not tacky or ugly, but can be very regular pieces. So, what makes body piercing so bad, then?

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