Deja VU

Have you ever seen the Friends where Joey finds his hand twin in Vegas?  He's determined that the two of them are going to make huge money now that they've found each other.  I am actually partial to the idea that all of us have some sort of "twin" out there.  For example, I love pointing out car twins on the road.  I think a lot of us have a celebrity twin.  You might know a few of your birthday twins.

Well, a few weeks ago I met my pregnancy twin at church.  She was new to the nursing lounge during the last 30 minutes of church.  (She is actually in the ward that meets after mine, so I had never met her before or anything.)  (I'm actually closer to the nursing ladies in the ward after mine than I am in my ward.  If I felt I could discuss that without going postal I would, but for the sake if this violent free blog, I'll just leave it at that.)  I was excited to meet someone new.  So I asked her, "How old is your baby?" She told me he was a bit younger than Johnathon, but he had been born a few weeks early so he was small.

She then proceeded to talk to a friend of hers in the room about visiting teaching.  I found out that this woman had been on bed rest.  I asked her how long she had been on bed rest- she said 5 months.  I told her I wasn't on bed rest, but I had been on limited movement.  Here is how our conversation went.

"For how long?"
Me "I had my cerclage put in in October and then it went downhill from there."
"I had a cerclage too!"
Me "Really? Yeah, my doctor told me it would be easy to take out.  I had to go to Triage to have it removed."
"Me too! After a WWF match with my OB (Note: almost the title for this post) I had to go to Triage too.  Snip, snip, yeah right!?!"
Me "Oh my gosh!  I can't believe that! Why did you have a cerclage?"
"I have a heart shaped uterus and they didn't even think I would be able to get pregnant.  So they watched me closely and at 13 weeks my cervix was already 80% gone. Why did you?"

Then I proceeded to tell her about my situation and everything.  So, yeah, we're not identical pregnancy twins, but we are definitely fraternal!  But then she asked me a crazy question.

"Would you do it again?"

And silly me, I said, "What?"

"Get pregnant and go through it again."

I think I then looked at her like she had horns growing out of her head.  I think that was the dumbest question I'd ever heard.  Of course, I'd do it again, tomorrow!  Even as stressful as everything was and emotional and draining and hard and life changing- sign me up!

And then my twin broke my heart.  She said she'd already adopted two little girls, she had her miracle son and that was enough.  She couldn't do it again.

Don't worry, I will still talk to her.  I mean, we are pregnancy twins and all.  But, that's where our similarities end and that's when I knew that the Lord did know me pretty well.  He knew that I could handle it.  He knew that while I might complain and say I can't handle it- I can. He knows I can.

So if you hear me complaining next time, just remind me that it's a blessing from the Lord and it's totally worth it!  And that He and I know I can do it, because even though I have a pregnancy twin, I'm pretty uniquely and totally me and totally up for the challenge.