Complication of Multiples Dodged

Whew. After a positive test for gestational diabetes on a preliminary screening, my wife came up negative on the authoritative test. Gestational diabetes is a fairly common complication in multiple pregnancies, so I must admit that I was concerned. Bullet dodged.

This also means that my boys being in the 70th percentile in size is not a symptom, but a sign that they will be super-human hockey babies!

I have been kind of preoccupied lately with an odd thought. Being that there will be two babies, do we need to track how much time each of us spends holding/caring for/playing with each child? I mean, I don't want one baby to develop a stronger attachment to mommy and the other a stronger attachment to me. This is of special concern to me given that I will only have a month of paternity leave to build a strong foundation with each baby before I have to go back to work and barely see them. Will random chance keep the time we spend with each baby at about 50/50, or do we have to track this stuff . . . along with tracking the consistency of their poops?

Two months to go. It's a brave new world.

About two months out . . .

Well, we are a little over two months away from the due date. My wife got tested for gestational diabetes last week and we have not heard anything, which is good news. I hope we can avoid that bump in the road, though the fact that she was not placed on any restrictions while the results were pending indicate to me that the doctor was not too worried.

I have to admit, work is getting harder now. It is harder to get up for it, harder to focus, and, while I have never been someone who relishes spending long hours in the office, it is getting harder to keep up the level of quantitative output I have been putting out for the last six months. Anybody have any tips?