All Grown Up: The Story of Jacob and Renesmee Part I

Sweetie

Renesmee

I'd read that twins are already high-risk pregnancies, but if Jacob didn't know that, I wasn't about to tell him. I knew he worried about me more than he showed. He didn't need to say it out loud or even show it on his face, I could still tell. You can't hide things from your soul mate.

I knew that as long as my twins were doing well, it was better for them to stay inside of me longer. I willed myself to hold onto them longer. I think most mothers would agree, I would rather go through almost anything if it would spare them the littlest bit of pain. So I'd hold onto them as long as I could.

The pain that came first was a new kind of pain. It hurt on the inside. Right where the babies were. I was horrified, and I panicked. I could hear both Swan and Anthony crying in their rooms. "Mommy is okay, guys!" Jacob shouted to them as he was dialing Grandpa. I was so freaked out, I didn't pay much attention to what Jacob was saying, but it was a short conversation.

"No...she says it's not a contraction," was all I caught.

The snapping of his phone when he closed it brought me back. "He and Esme are coming. They want us to go in that spare room." He helped me across the hall as Swan and Anthony continued to cry in their rooms.

"Everything is all right," I called, hoping that wouldn't be the first lie I ever told them.

"He doesn't think they are coming now, does he?" I asked easing myself into the bed.

"I don't know hun, I didn't ask." I noticed for the first time, this room now had two of almost everything. When had that happened?

While we were waiting, the pain moved to only one side, Mollie or Kyan's side, the smaller baby. And then it stopped.

"Jacob, it went away."

"It stopped hurting? I guess that's a good thing?" he said with hesitant optimism.

I shrugged and wiped my eyes. "I don't know."

As Grandpa turned on the sonogram machine, I hadn't seen him enter the room, I heard Nanna across the hall comforting my kids.

"I understand the pain has stopped?" he asked as he was busy with both hands. He was moving at vampire speed attaching a few things to my stomach and doing something to the machine with the other hand.

"Yes, it's totally gone. They are both moving, but it doesn't hurt."

"Aren't their hearts going a little fast there?" Jacob asked.

"Only slightly," he said focusing on the screen. "But I don't see any cause for alarm, they seem to be fine." When the pain started again, I whimpered and Jake squeezed my shoulder.

"They are trying to reposition themselves for birth," Grandpa said after watching the screen intently for a moment. He pointed to Asa or Xandra and it did look like that's what they were doing. "It's causing you pain because they don't have as much room as they should to turn around."

"Does that mean they won't be able to?" I asked.

"Not necessarily," Grandpa said.

"They aren't...they aren't trying to be born right now are they?" Jake asked.

Grandpa shook his head. "No, not yet. They are just preparing. Sometimes this is referred to as lightening, when babies drop down into the mother's pelvis. It sometimes means birth is a few weeks away. That is with first-time mothers though, it will be less for you, dear."

"That's right, not yet. You two stay with Mommy a little longer," I said wincing.

"What if they can't get turned around?" Jake asked. I already knew the answer to that.