And the Worries Begin!

Is this how Matt will respond to 2:00AM feedings?

That is the only picture I could find that resembles the facial expression of "stressed-out" in our photo albums. :D And how I miss my cuddle-buddy, Maddox the cat. :(

Here I sit at 5:00 AM completely unable to sleep. It may be because I slept for a solid 14 hours yesterday (I am completely exhausted these days), or maybe its because my mind will just not stop spinning! I feel that D-day is fast approaching, even though we don't quite have the official date marked in our calendar. I was reminded yesterday that Dr. Gibson has his "Methodist" days on Friday mornings. Does that mean he will schedule us for a C-section THIS Friday, the 17th? Or maybe he will push us off one more week until the 24th. (That would be AWESOME since we would then accomplish 38 weeks of pregnancy)!!! Wow I can't believe we have successfully made it this far with two kicking, tumbling little girls!

I'll give you a nice list of some of the concerns I have as we enter the last week or two before the babies arrive!

1) How are the dogs going to respond to having two new babies in the house?

2) Are the dogs going to eat EVERYTHING that we may accidently leave in their reach, including toys, blankies, pacifiers, etc. They like to demolish what ever they can get their sneaky paws on.

3) What if for some reason I can't breastfeed successfully?

4) Do we have enough bottles?

5) Will the girls' lungs be well-enough developed considering their early arrival?

6) How is Matt going to cope with late night feedings and working the next day?

7) How am I going to cope with people telling me how to do a specific task with my babies?

8) How long will it take for me to recover from this blasted C-section? I don't think I will ever come to terms with being cut open like a fish.

9) How do you politely turn away ill visitors that don't have a clue to stay away from newborn babies?!

10) Will the girls fit into their "coming home" outfits or will that be the first red flag of bad parenting... two little girls swimming in their clothes?

11) Will we be successful at getting Anna Mae and Abigail on a schedule?

12) Our double-stroller doesn't fit in the Tahoe... now what? :D

What a huge change in our life this is going to be (I can already hear some of you saying, "DUH" as you read that). I am up for the challenges and rewards of parenthood and I realize most of the issues that I have right now will be figured out in the upcoming weeks and we really just have to play it by ear. I look forward to the help from our parents! As of now, I believe my mom (and hopefully Dad, here and there) will be staying with us for about two weeks and then the Mimi & Papa shift changes to Matt's parents who will be up from Georgia for several weeks in August. I know we will need the extra hands to get us off to a good start. We are lucky to have such a great support system of family & friends and I need to remind myself of that more often. But, as many of you know, I am such a worry-wart!