To be wondering how much it must suck to give birth vaginally to twins?

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iv had two children vaginally with just gas and air.

I am just watching Sundays call the midwife and this poor woman is having to dilate and crown twice (not from scratch i know but still)

Any mothers of twins able to confirm my thinking that this would be seriously sore? Obviously with two fab little bundles at the end of course that would make it all worth while!

The whole placenta thing depends on how many placentas there are! Sometimes there is 2 and sometimes there is only 1.

Not twins but my friends daughter has just given birth to her first baby - 10lb 7 ! Bet that was ouchy .

Yes it's not the most pleasant experience, once one has popped out and all the pain goes, you then have to do it all again for the 2nd one, in my case the 2nd one was quite happy where he was and probably could've stay there a while longer.

My mum says it was not really much harder than a single birth, just more tiring.

@lime, don't worry - and good luck!

I found " birthing" the placenta painful after dc2 but not after dc1 (singletons). Apparently there's a reson for that. So I reckon giving birth to second twin is more painful if you have previously have dc before the twins.

ellesbelles That's so nice. I think you may be mad. But very nice.

I do remember feeling very shell shocked and daunted afterwards, actually. Almost nervous of them, wondering how on eeaaarrth was I going to do this then, because we had a 1YO too.
Even if the birth itself was fine, I felt quite alone and under a lot of expectation once they were out.
I wouldn't fancy it again.

No probs, one very effective epidural and two little babies born 6 weeks early. Significantly easier than the singleton that followed a few years later, weighing in at the twins' combined weight, with the cord around his neck resulting in an emergency c section and blood transfusion for me. All well in the end but I'd take the vaginal twin birth experience over that any day!

They're not always smaller. Mine were 3 weeks early and weighed 6lb 2 and 6lb 15

DT1 5 lbs 11 oz
DT2 6 lbs 5 oz
I think each placenta followed each baby
As soon as 1st was born they pumped me full of sintosin (however you spell it) to keep the contractions going. 30 minutes between the two. I was advised that they would give me a C section if it had been much more than 30 between them.
I labour very quickly and have a silent latent stage so didn't feel contractions until very close to delivery. I pushed 3 times for DT1 and 6 times for DT2. It was horrifically quick. I had been to a homeopath who had given me some pills so I'll never know whether they made it quicker.
Delivered by midwives but with registrar standing next to my head. Waters for DT2 had to be broken as he wasn't showing any sign of coming.
Where I gave birth (Northampton) all twin births are in a theatre with a theatre nurse sitting there, to allow for an immediate C Section if one is needed.
I stayed in hospital for a week, until I had the feeding cracked. The babies were my 3rd and 4th children and so I wasn't inexperienced but was worried how I would cope with the breastfeeding. I was given a private room.

Oh and born at 37.5 weeks

After giving birth to the first i was quite cross i had to do it again 20 minutes later! Forceps with both, and exhausting, but ok really. I have no memory of delivering the placentas but I assume I did at some point!

I had twin 1 naturally and twin 2 c section. Nice second degree tear, c section, and double milking. I'd do it all again tomorrow!! (And I had 2 toddlers!!) 😂😂

Friend had twins naturally, they were a surprise. OB doing her delivery said guess what theres another one in there (after the first was delivered) She told him he could keep it we both worked for the OB so he was laughing, she said it wasn't so bad pushing twice. She named the second baby after the OB he was thrilled to bits and used to tell the story at work to new staff.

Easily the best bit of the pregnancy. They really wanted me to have an epidural, because DT2 was breech and they wanted to try ECV, but I was adamant. And I was right - I never even noticed the ECV, which didn’t work. DT2 had to be yanked out by the lovely consultant with luckily very small hands.

My daughter gave birth vaginally to my twin granddaughters with just gas and air and said it wasn't too bad at all.
I was with her for the delivery and she coped really well. I think the pain is the same if you're having one or ten!!

It was bad when i had my twin's but my SiL jokes it could been worse (she had triplets).

The first DT was nice and "easy" only took about an hour for her to come her brother took 20 hours..... (it was close to them having emerncy C section but he decided he to come out shortly after they decided to start preperations for the intervention its why my Dtwins have different birthdays as they were born different days hah.

I had my 3 (singleton then twins) vaginally and wouldn't say one was worse than the other - but then I found labour harder than the actual pushing in both cases. I'd say the smaller babies (in my case) balanced out the double pushing, but honestly I think the main difference is that I just accepted a shedload of intervention - had a full spinal for the twins (which was not the plan) - very gladly given my T2 did a backflip having been head down and was born breech.

To be honest I didn't fancy the recovery time from a CS with a 4 year old to look after - I was taking him up to the park the weekend after the twins were born!

Call the midwife is fiction!
My first was only problematic delivery and she was the smallest at 9lb 6. It was her length that was the issue with a severe SD.
The twins were a doddle. Both just under 7lb so much smaller. As they were 4/5 I think there was minimal resistance. Delivered in under 6 hours from first twinge. Don’t even really recall pushing.

What I didn't expect at my twin birth was the number of people in the room. My goodness there were crowds of them there!

I gave birth vaginally to twins a good few years ago. Baby 1 was 7.5 pounds and baby 2 was 6.5 pounds. You dilate once to 10 cm and it won't happen again but crown twice of course. I had to push a lot for the 1st baby but only pushed 15 minutes for the second baby. Both Placentas came after the babies. Unfortunately I bled a lot and had to have blood transfusion the next day.
I just have to say God bless the person who invented Epidural otherwise don't know how I would've survived this ordeal. 😁

I’ve also done it.

36 week induction, epidural, allllll the drugs. Weird feeling of feeling the pain of my fanny tearing but not the contractions .

It was less painful than my third baby because I went into labour naturally and NO epidural!

I tore about the same - biggest twin was only 5lb 10 and DS3 was 8lb 6. So no idea which is worse.

Same here user .. about 14 people in theatre with us. But that's because they thought we were all going to peg it. Little shit of an obstetrician refused me caesarean, despite me begging him many risk factors. There were 2 obstetricians because twin 2 had to be manipulated in utero from the outside (similar to being turned) because they couldn't get hold of her with the forceps they'd used for twin one ..
After we'd finally got twin one out, I remember looking at the clock in theatre and thinking "ok 20 more minutes and that has to be it .." (it had gone on for hours) and it went on for another 2. Absolutely tortuous. I would have rather been the guy tied to the chair in Reservoir Dogs. "Clowns to the left ... jokers to the right, here I am .. stuck in the middle with you .."
It must have cost the NHS a fortune. Far far more than a caesarean would have; without all the other costs (not least my long-term health).

I know of someone who gave birth to a 10lb 5oz baby but because she was young, very fit, of athletic build and so on, didn't find it too bad. She was starting to feel embarrassed at people's reactions when she told them how big the baby was but that the birth was ok.

Second pregnancy was twins, delivered vaginally at 40 weeks, two hours after arriving at hospital. Easier than first labour and only needed gas and air. It really wasn't any worse than the first time but maybe I was lucky.

Delivered my two (6lb and 7lb4) at 37.5 weeks after induction with gas and air. Even though T2 flipped to breech after T1 was born and so had to be guided out by consultant it really wasn't bad at all and I had basically no recovery. Feeling much better than I did after birth of my 8lb9 singleton with retained placenta a few years before. Was lucky as I had to keep going between post natal ward and scbu for a week or so to visit T2 and bring expressed milk. If I'd had c section or major recovery from birth it would have been a lot now difficult. I still can't quite believe how lucky I was.

Amyisagonegirl - I read that as twin 1 was 6 feet 11 inches! That would definitely smart a bit!