Book 4: Nightmares

Rose

I lay in my bed, staring up at the ceiling, listening to Kelly and Shelby talk about…. Well, I don’t even know what they’re talking about.

I’m really not paying any attention to them at all. I’m thinking about the babies.

The Braxton-Hicks contractions have subsided, thank goodness. I’m not in any pain, though I’m still uncomfortable. Dr. Pepperglass says that I’ll probably be in discomfort for the rest of my pregnancy. After that, she says there’s a good chance I’ll be uncomfortable for about eighteen years.

I think she has forgotten that I won’t be with my babies for the next eighteen years, and she’s thinking I will be the typical mother who doesn’t get any sleep because the babies are crying and are up constantly worried once they start walking because they might wander off or fall in a lake or get swallowed up by a sinkhole….

Maybe she was under the impression I would be one of those moms who are constantly worried about how m