October 13, 2016
Okay okay okay. We found out last week that these ladies will be joining us October 20 at the latest. The date's set, we’ve attended pre-op, we’re suitably stressed out. BRING IT ON.
And then we learned yesterday that the surgery was bumped u...
October 6, 2016
With the thought of full-time dad-hood rushing towards me, I’m a bit curious about how I’ll react to so much downtime. Yes, yes. That's a crazy word to use in this situation. And in some ways it'll be busier than ever, obviously. But I’ve gone through infant-raising be...
September 30, 2016
So, looks like yesterday was a false alarm. A “false labor”.
I, mean, so they say, but they were real and true contractions, coming at a steady clip every 2 to 3 minutes for hours on end. How is that not labor? Yet it’s the cervix that tells the tale and the gate rem...
September 29, 2016
Because for my birthday yesterday I got a laparoscopic appendectomy. (A "happy lappy appy birthday", as I deliriously mumbled to the nurse.)
New post coming this weekend.
September 22, 2016
A couple days ago was my 33rd birthday. Gill thought she was maybe going into labour at the end of the night. Told her that she’ll have to keep them in, because no way am I sharing my birthday with three kids. No. Way.
We spent the morning having an ultrasound done...
September 15, 2016
And just like that another month passes. How has September been? Fast. Amazingly, terrifyingly fast.
We're having ultrasounds every two weeks now, and the babies are growing straight and true. Last week, they were guesstimated to be 2lbs 12 ounces, 2lbs 10 and...
September 8, 2016
Had our third ultrasound yesterday. Went incredibly fast – too fast, really. Basically the pleasant nurse found all the babies, measured that they were still the right size and proportions and then brought in Dr. Schneider. After 2 minutes of inspecting blood flow f...
September 8, 2016
Very quick entry today. I am absolutely flying here.
Immediately after learning about the baby-bomb, we were of course torn from the midwifery program and thrust into The Health Care System. This shit’s high risk, after all.
So we met with our new high-risk pregnancy sp...
September 5, 2016
We've been living with it for almost two weeks now. It's gotten easier to tell people, to say the words, but we still haven't really made peace with it. How could we? Everything will change.
I almost don’t know what to say about it. I mean, on paper it looks like life...
MUSIC
My name's Sandy. In October of 2015, my wife and I became parents of three identical girls. We already had a two year-old boy.
This last year has been the strangest, greatest, craziest, boringest, changiest time in my life, and I kept a randomly updated journal while living it. Now I'm putting it up for people to read. Maybe you'll find it interesting. And if you're a parent who has or is about to have multiples, maybe you'll find it useful. I don't know!
This is also the story of a semi-pro music guy putting to bed his long-time addiction, and all the feelings that came from that. I did one last record with my band Indicator Indicator in the thick of things last year. It's coming out this fall and then I'm done for a while.
Anyway!
The title of each post is the date it was originally written. There's a fresh post or two every Thursday.