Twin's Club 2! All Welcome! :)

[holidays2010]

Continued on from Here
Tried to update best I can with limited info and time, but here's the list on the new Twins Club thread, please update if I've missed anything!

Sassy34264 #2&3 EDD 12/09/10, Lancs, Jacob and Isobel born 13/8/10
strawberrylace #2&3 EDD 1/12/10, Suffolk, surprise Zoey and Lucas born 23/10/10 by c section
jjkm #1&2 ADD 29/1/11, outside the UK, Girls born 25/10/10
Lavitabellissima #1&2 EDD 13/12/10, SW London, Identical girls Born 04/11/10 c section (early 34&3)
smokeybacon #3&4 EDD 25th Nov, Nottingham, Freddie and Tobias born 06/11/10, natural birth after induction.
Jenzopos #1&2 EDD 23/11/10, Charlotte & Anna, Manchester 15/11/10 6lb 7oz and 7lb 5oz
Swazzee #1&2 EDD 02/12/10, South London, Adem 6lb 3oz and Rafi 5lb 13oz 21/11/10
Amberc #2&3, Madeleine (6.3lb) & Isabella (6.11lb) , delivered by C Section on 07/1/11 at 37 weeks, Kent
Thingamajig #2&3 EDD 20/3/11, Cornwall, identical girls Hannah (5lb4oz) and Louise (4lb4oz) born 13/2/11
Magic8ballhastheanswers #3&4 EDD 22/3/11 South London, ID girls born 27/2/11
Cerubina #1&2, SW London, Sebastian (3lb 4oz) and Rosamund (3lb 9oz) born 8 weeks early on 26/2/11 by emergency c-section
Holidays2010, 2 Baby Boys born 06/03/2011
CantDrinkAnyMoreMilk, Scotland, Baby Girl and Baby Boy born 01/03/2011
crazydayz, Thomas and Isobel, born on 28/4/2011 by C-section at 7lb 3 and 6lb 14

Tabbycat76 #1+2 Edd 21/02/11, Suffolk, surprise
VictoriaSecrets #1&2, EDD 17/05/11, Basingstoke, Prob Non-ID twin girls!

Snowfalls108 #2&3 EDD 29/05/2011, SW London, ID surprise
MissyMolly #1&2, EDD 29/05/2011, Midlands, non ID boy and girl
RestingKitty #1&2 EDD 15/06/2011, South London, boy & girl
Propercrimbo #2&3 EDD 16/07/11, North Lancs, not finding out
Brassicababe #1&2, 22/07/2011, Lincs, non-id, surprise
MorningsMadness #2&3 EDD 14/08/2011, Surrey, Non-ID twin girls
MrsStevo, #1 & 2, EDD 23/08/2011, Lincs, MCDA ID
Redshaw, EDD Sept 2011, MCDA ID
Tiggersreturn #2+3 EDD 26/09/11 NW London DCDA - not finding out
DoubleDiffedDachs, #1&2 EDD 5/10/11, Twyford (Berks), DCDA, too early to tell!
Fluter, EDD October 2011, Non-ID
PeelingmyselfofftheCeiling #1+2 EDD ... , DCDA
mybootsaremuddy 6+7 EDD 7/7/2011, surprise
silverangel #1+2 EDD ..., ID

it's always a bit difficult to just be told "this is what will happen", you end up feeling that you dont have any control over a situation, and then the scary stories dont help you feel any better about it. hopefully people on here are helping to put your mind at rest a bit, tbh we're probably all anxious about the same things so i guess it's good we can support each other a bit, and pass on helpful info.
i got told by my m'wife that we'll probably have half the maternity unit staff wanting to be in on the birth of twins, so i guess there'll be plenty of people about to ask for help. these are our first, so frankly we've got no idea what to expect, so i've already warned the mw to expect lots of daft questions during/after the birth

How exciting being your first and twins I remember how scary it was before the thought of a baby. And it was and still is amazing. Dony worry about asking questions If the midwives are like the ones here they are fab.

The whole c-section thing is defenently a fear of the unknown and because I have never had any operations before or thankfully stitches. I also have terrible panic attacks so I hope I can keep them under control.

i'd recommend letting the staff know about your panic attacks - i work in healthcare and it's always a much better experience for the patients i see if i know in advance if they suffer panic attacks/phobias about hospitals etc. it means i can try and take things at their pace, and give them some feeling of being in control, which is something i think very few of us feel when we're in hospital confronted by white coats.
my DP also suffers from them, so i know how debilitating they can be. sometimes he worries so much about having an attack in a particular situation that he can actually cause himself to have one.

Morning all

Can promise no whinging today ... have a (probably temporary) respite from heartburn which is AMAZING and pelvic pain has eased so much that I am letting myself hope that I pulled something rather than it was the actual beginning of pelvic pain. It did twinge a lot more when I was hefting my laptop and associated work paraphanalia around on the way into work this morning so thinking the pulling something explanation could be a go-er. Yay! Not looking forward to third trimester - sounds like you ladies are really going through it!

xkatyx - sorry to hear you are being dictated to like that. I haven't got as far as discussions about type of birth yet but am also strongly in preference of vb if possible and will find it hard to get my head around a cs if that is what I end up with. Like you my concern is the recovery, and the hospital stay. But at the end of the day whatever happens you will get through it, and worrying about it won't change anything. I would try not to think about it for a while, and then when you feel a bit stronger and more used to the idea focus on it from the perspective of what you can control in terms of putting support etc in place to help you manage the recovery period. If you can have some control over some of it you might feel more comfortable with it? That said, I think you definitely have a right to challenge the hospital on this and ask for a better reason, directly related to you and your pregnancy, than 'it's the guidelines' - but only if you feel comfortable doing that. As agree with ipswichwitch that you should definitely make them aware of your panic attacks so that they are prepared and can help you manage them. I would tell everyone involved - from consultant to the midwives/nurses and anethetist (sp?) in theatre. and get it put on your notes.

Thank u both, I will make them well aware, I'm actually on tablets to ease the.

God girls don't go near thread in pregnsncy avout c-sections wish I never had I'm so upset and petrified! My own fault.

hey katy, hope you feeling a bit better about it all today. i've not been on that thread, and have no intention of doing so! i've tried taking each stage of this pregnancy as it comes - obviously at 32 weeks i now need to think about the birth, and have been asking my mw, reading the pregnancy book and found babycentre's website to be quite informative too. the last thing i want is to hear a lot of scary stories at this stage, but i can say i know quite a few people who have had c-sections, and had nothing but positive experiences so i'm focusing on that side of things.
also, like tabby says, it may be worth asking why they are pushing for CS. is there a particular medical reason why VB is not an option? if they have no better reason than the "hospital policy" thing, i would tell them how you feel about it. if you do decide to challenge them about this, it may be worth doing with your OH/friend with you, so you have someone else in your corner. for now, i'm sending hugs, and recommend a nice cuppa and a bit cake and put your feet up for a wee while. thats exactly what i'm off to do (without the tea tho, cos it still makes me feel sick!!!)

Ooooh Katy don't do that to yourself - any thread like that is likely to scare you senseless. I don't think I've ventured off ante or post natal threads for anything apart from the comical AIBU threads (to read only) in the three years I've been on mn! Hope everyone is ok - I had to pop up to hospital today for a year as babies are a little quiet but typically started moving as soon as I was strapped up. Blinking trouble makers!

Officially on countdown now. This time in 10 days I will have my babies!!

10 days!! Oh my goodness how are you feeling?

Oh they like to do that dont they in other pregnancies mine have decided just to have a rest day and then to party as soon as I get checked!! Cheeky things.

I wish I had 10 days till full term .. I just want to be in a slightly more safe zone.

I had a scan yesterday both babies are 1lb 1oz so tiny.

I am actually feeling really chilled. At first it felt like an age away but now it feels like the right amount of time, like I have a week left to really chill out and enjoy DS and make sure everything is ready. And lots of little bits on next week, 37 week mw, pre-op bloods etc so will have things on most days. DH is away for a week as well so would really like them not to come and have to have an emergency CS.

You know my hospital won't give me weights - they say it's impossible to tell as they don't know the lengths - I have had to stop myself from saying - 'well how come on MN everyone else knows huh....!'

9 days today... yay

9 days! it's all very exciting, hope you're enjoying your chill out time. i think they calculated our twins weights using head and body circumference and femur length, its part of the computer program they use for the scanner. pretty sure you can get estimated height of a person using femur length - thats what anthropologists do when looking at skeletons i believe ......i know, way too much daytime telly!! :)

xkatyx I was up and about 6 hours after cs - mainly due to one twin being in SCBU and being desperate to meet her after all the mws kept telling me how lovely she was and I hadn't seen her. tbh my cs has been quicker to recover from than vb with dd1 (although I tore badly that time). I feel better in myself emotionally and after day 6 I had bery little pain. the pain was manageable with painkillers and a much better experience.

Although the babies were in SCBU I was changing their nappies and feeding etc. Sitting wasn't nearly as bad as I'd feared and picking them up individually wasn't an issue (both at the same time was).

I was in pain yesterday (17 days post op) but that's because I did far too much as I was feeling so well. Walking a mile is too far this early on!

princess this is like the pot calling the kettle black as I know I'll probably be worse but you must rest and not walk for miles!!! I'm not worried about the cs now I don't think. I'm worried about the hospital stay as I hate hospitals but with twins it's not going to be an overnighter regardless of the delivery method!

How is everyone today?

Am feeling a bit all over the place to be honest. The first of my antenatal thread ladies had a baby girl 4 weeks early on Friday and turns out she has Edwards so won't be with us for very long at all. Its crazy, I don't technically know this woman apart from mn but felt like my heart broke when we heard. I guess it's all too close iyswim.

On the other side I'm feeling very refreshed after two good nights sleep (DH has the weekend off for first time in weeks and has been a star). And 8 days left until my babies are here and given the sadness of the past two days I just want them here and in my arms.

I'm also leaking (sorry for tmi) don't known if it's poor pelvic floors or slow leaking waters so am monitoring until later today but had to change my underwear and trousers as they were quite damp (again sorry for tmi). I'm quite crampy with period pain as well (although not contractions) so going to hop in the bath in a sec and try and ease it off.

Hope everyone is ok xxxx

hey bb3 how you getting on?
such sad news about the baby girl - i had to look it up and its so heart breaking. anything like this is affecting my quite profoundly atm, but my heart really goes out to the family. like you say, its all too close, and these hormones are making me super emotional. i blubbed the other day because DP didnt put the bins out fgs.
cant wait for our two to arrive - had scan today and they are growing quite nicely (about 4lb1oz each). the plan is still to go for vb, if i get to 37wks i'll be induced. would kill for a decent sleep tho!! hoping my iron levels have improved - more bloods done today so i'll find out soon. twin 1 was sucking on its top lip during the scan, which is something i tend to do, so god help everyone if they take after me!!

Hey ladies I'm posting very quickly because I'm supposed to be sleeping while babies do although I think that is the most ridiculous thing to imagine on a baby's first night as all you do is stare at them!!

Anyway we have two gorgeous baby girls - baby girl one arrived at 00.44 this mornjng weighing 5lb 11.5oz and baby girl two at 00.47 weighing 6lb 1oz. Both have fed well and are sleeping soundly (unlike mummy) but names are yet to be finalised. They're both good weights so minimal monitoring unfortunately I'm losing too much blood so am on half hourly obs.

Ended up having emergency cs after i bled heavily this afternoon and then contractions started at about 9 - immediately at 3 mins apart and then raced to one minute intervals within a couple of hours - was all very surreal but a nice experience all in all. Feeling starting to come back which is nice.

Anyway will post names etc tomorrow as soon as we have them firmed up. Hope everyone is well.

wow BB3 - congratulations!! Amazing news and fab weights. Hope you got some sleep!! Let us know what names you settle on.

I had 21 week scan yesterday... 2 boys which was a bit of a shocker after DD1 (how do boys work then?) so trying to get my head around that. Was convinced I had at least 1 girl in there. Genuinely don't mind either way but need to get my head around it! All looking good though except she wasn't sure which twin was leading and one is currently breach - any idea how you persuade one to turn and the other to stay put?! And also - at what stage of a twin pg do they run out of room to turn? Presumably earlier than in a singleton pg? Both are currently a good size when measured on a singleton scale - not sure what centile off the top of my head - so am thinking I am going to be HUGE by the end of this.

Can't stay long as have lots of work to do so can't respond to all the other comments - but nice to hear about positive cs experience princess... think we could all do with more stories like that!!

Hope everyone is well today.

tabby my twins turned last week (36 weeks ish) and completely changed positions (swapped sides and one turned head down). So there is plenty of time!

massive congratulations bb3 glad to hear your girls are doing so well, and good respectable weights too. hope you're faring a bit better and manage to get some sleep in between adoring gazes!!

tabby, i wouldn't worry too much about the breech position. we found twin 1 was head down from about 24-26 weeks and hasn't shifted, but twin 2 was flipping between head down and transverse/breech and was transverse still on 30 week scan. however yesterdays scan (32weeks + 5) twin 2 was head down again.
had been reading about some simple exercises to do to encourage them to stay head down. if one or neither of them was head down at yesterdays scan i was going to ask midwife about the exercises as you are only supposed to do some them from 32 weeks. i think they are starting to run out of room to turn too much in there now, but still kicking and wriggling plenty :)

Wow a HUGE congratulations to you bb3

What a supprise,so happy for you :)

Hope u r well x

thanks all for the reassurance re breech-ness!

office is running a fantastic fundraiser today - 8 people have baked cakes and for £2 charity donation you get a smallish slice of each and have to vote for the best 3 - Office bake-off!

Have a HUGE plate of cake as a result! yum!

Congratulations bb3. hope you're doing well.

tabby I was told that it's only the position of dt1 that matters. dt1 remained oc from early on until delivery. dt2 moved Btwn transverse and breech and was transverse on crucial day and got turned internally I think. (all a bit confused at that point )

Thanks for all your well wishes. We have decided on names. DT1 is Edith-May (Ede) and dt2 is Ayse-Rose (pronounced Ayshea).

We might be discharged today x fingers crossed i can get these little bambinos home xk

Waaaaaa! Congratulations BB3!!!!!!!!

I wondered when you described your leaking if that was your waters breaking. Scary re bleed though. How many weeks were you when you went? Lovely names. So exciting. Keep posting as would love to hear how you are getting on!

Will catch-up properly later when I am not supposed to be at work!

Hello All,

I havent been on since my first post, lots has happened!

Thanks for the pram advice, I still havent been yet - whoopsie! Been waiting for my horrible hip pain to ease off before traipsing round shops, it seems to have worn off now and I'm finishing work soon (hols and then mat leave) so I can go shopping for everything then. I've been for my 24wks scan today and so far everythings looking good. I'm so nervous before the scan but I absolutely love seeing them, its so exciting! :)

Congratulations BB3 - they are beautiful names and good weights too :) I hope you're feeling better soon.

ipswichwitch - how cute re the lip sucking! that is adorable, I seen my little boy put his hand in his mouth at the 20wk and today (24wk scan) I saw him flapping his mouth open. Its so amazing to see them isnt it!

xkatyx - I agree with the others re telling the hospital about your panic attacks, I suffer with anxiety so I have mentioned it to the midwives at the clinic just incase. I had some treatment on my cervix last year and had a panic attack and they though I was having an allergic reaction at first so I think its important to let people know.

princessscrumpy - congrats! you're making me well up, I can just imagine not being able to tear yourself away from your babies. I hope you're feeling better soon too.

tabbycat - I'm sure I read on a thread of someone laying face down on the sofa and a foot stool with their belly hanging in between to move their baby. I remember because it sounded crazy and made me laugh, maybe find out about that first though before doing it just incase I read it wrong. I think they can turn quite late on though. Re the getting massive, I was worried about that too. Especially after my first visit to the twin clinic! But its all for a good cause and well worth it isnt it!

Anyhoo better get back to work - oops!

xxx

Hello there. Can I join the club? Early doors for me. We were actually at Marie Stopes 2 days ago for a consultation as all ready to have a termination, and then found out a) 13 weeks and b) twins. For absolutely no logical reason whatsoever, this changed things. It's still not a definite as am waiting on the nuchal scan (long LONG story but basically everything is stacked against them - 38, had a nervous breakdown this year, resorted to booze, came off it but only 2 weeks after their conception if date is right, was travelling in the Amazon for 2 months with yellow fever vaccine, anti malarial, altitude sickness, mainlining immodium, only gave up smoking a month ago - I didn't know! sue me! - have eaten every dangerous substance known to man whilst out there while people fret about Dairylea - cured guinea pig anyone? raw piranah?)

But if the scan shows they've survived all that, well, they're little fighters and I think they deserve the right for me to fight twice as hard for them.

Plus I have one absolutely stonkingly amazing 17 year old whom I had at university, whose conception was similarly unplanned and unregistered and therefore imbibed a student's worth of tequila slammers et al before I realised. Absolutely NO advocation for being blase about these things, but it IS giving me hope - until the scan - that they might, just might, be OK.

Anyhows, just to say hello. After the - everything crossed - scan and decision day, will probably be back on here with lots of questions.

Wish us luck x

Thank you, they are aware if my panic attacks as I take medication for it
(completely changed my life) and it's on my notes but I will be also telling them when it's all happening eeeek.