Better You Than Me

In case anyone was wondering why that is in the name of my blog, this is for you!


"Better you than me" is something I have heard approximately 3847634537410 times since we found out I was pregnant with twins. Try to imagine, all you singleton parents out there, when you said you were having a baby, and people looking at with you with a mix of amazement and pity, and say those words to you. Not sure how to feel? It's ok, I didn't either. There were many conflicting thoughts running through my head whenever I heard those 4 little words, sometimes I wanted to scream, sometimes I wanted to punch them in the face, and sometimes I wanted to cry, because I was pretty sure they were right and having twins was about to be awful.


A friend of mine just had twins about a week ago, and I warned her about that phrase and that people love to say it. Maybe because they don't know what else to say, maybe because they are ignorant and don't realize what they are saying isn't actually very nice, or, as I like to believe, they are just really jealous. Because, have you seen my kids? You should be jealous.

But when I was 8 months pregnant and as big as a small barn (not just as big as a house), and people looked at me with that look of pity and said those words, I did not think they were jealous. And, really, they weren't. They were thinking about how time consuming, expensive, and hard it would be to have twins. And it is. But, as it turns out, having twins is also pretty awesome. My brats always have someone else to play with, they always have someone to talk to, they run to each other when they are upset, they always have someone to beat up, or someone get into trouble with when the mood strikes them (which, by the way, they seem to do a lot lately).


So, next time you meet someone having twins, do not say those 4 little words that no one really wants to hear. Because you never know when an exhausted, large as a barn, 8 months pregnant woman might scream in frustration, or just clock you.


And if you are pregnant with twins, and don't want to hear it anymore, just do what I did. When people ask if you're having twins, just say no. Let them think you just really let yourself go during a singleton pregnancy, instead ;)