The Joys of Pregnancy

The Merrical Of Life

I was making dinner when I felt it happen. At first I was confused, then slightly mortified. My first thought was 'Did I really just pee my self?'. I looked down and saw that my pats were wet and that a puddle was forming at my feet. Annoyance and even humiliation swept through me as I glared at the puddle like it had done something to personally offend me. I was about to get something to clean it up when I saw the calander out of the coner of my eye.

It was the 13, one day before my due date. I looked back at the small, clear puddle and relisation dawned on me. Both fear and excitment started to course through me, but I kept it under controll. I waddled my way to the living room where I knew the four of them sat, waiting for me to call them in. I had fought with them to let me do this one chore, and barely managed to get them to stop mother hening me enough to actually start cooking. The deal was they were going to stay only one room over in case I need help. I know I'm never going to hear the end of this.

I groaned out in annoyance and peeked my head areound the corner. "Hey, Mattie. Can you come in here for a second?" I asked him and four heads turned to face me at once. Kinda like a bunch of little gophers. "Man that was creepy."

"What's wrong? Do you need help with something?" Mattie asked as he stood up. Consern shone in mauve eyes.

"Just come here for a miute." I said gestering for him to enter. He entered the room and I pointed at the puddle. "I either peeded myself or my water just broke."

"Oh, yea. I'm pretty sure your water did just break." Mattie said as he looked at it for a moment. "How do you feel?"

"Fine." I shruged nonchalntly even though I was freaking out on the inside.

"Have you felt any contractions yet?" He asked as he started to lead me to living room. I shook my head no, I haven't. The mention of contractions got the attention of the other three residents.

"Fredka! Have you gone into labor?" Ivan asked, rushing to my side. A worry look streached across his face and he took my other arm to lead me to the couch.

"Not quiet yet." Mattie spoke up. "Even though water breaking usually happens after labor starts, it can sometimes happen a little too soon. He should start feeling the contractions with in the next 12 hours."

"Great. 'Cause I am not giving birth to my girls on a thirteenth." I snorted in amusemnt. "Also, dinner is still cooking. Someone needs to go check on that."

"Oh, I'll get it." Kat said rushing into the kitchen.

"Well, you have about five hours untill midnight. I doubt you'll give birth to them in that time." Mattie told me nonchalantly, like we weren't talking about giving birth.

"Wait, how long is this going to last?" I asked him, eyes narrowing.

"Active labor for a first time mom usually lasts anytime from eight hours to eightteen." He informed me with a sympathetic smile.

"Fantastic." I groaned in annoyance. "When should I move upstairs?"

A couple of days ago both Ivan and Mattie turned one of my guest rooms into a birthing room. The bed was stripped of all fabric sheets and had a plastic sheet on it instead. The pillow cases were replaced with plactic ones as well. He had all his tools set up in there as well, ready for when the twins decided they wanted to see the world. He even had Ivan, Nat, and Kat go through a training exersize so they will know what to do when the time came.

"You don't have to go up untill the actual contractions start. So you can stay down here and relax for a while." Mattie told me. Kat chose that time to come into the living room carring dinner.