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

Hello!

Not sure if I have been having BHs or not, by your description katy I might have had them quite a bit but early on ? like 14-16 weeks ? is that possible?
Totally clueless about names. I really can?t think of any I like for girls. Trying not to think too much about names until we know exactly what we are having as I am finding it so hard I don?t want to waste effort on deciding on a name we will never need!

Very jealous that you have finished work tabby, I am carrying on to 32 weeks which feels like forever away. I don?t envy you or others with all that building work. We are doing quite a bit to our house at the moment and it feels like not a day goes by when we don?t have tradesman coming and going, DH can?t work from home but I can so feel like I am barely in the office. And why is it that nothing can be done completely in one visit?? Feel so exasperated when I would like to be able to tick something off the list only for them to need to come back to do x,y, and z... will it ever be over!?

Peeling!!! So lovely to see you back and hear your story! Sounds so tough with them being so early and small, but you sound like you are doing amazing. Dumb question, but do you ?know? if you are going to deliver early ? were there any signs during your pg that you might not go full term/ did the doctors or midwives predict? I have a gut feel that I will go for ages and be begging for an induction at 38 weeks but no idea why I think this (maybe being hopeful).

Thanks for sharing your list of items BB3, we have decided not to get moses baskets but to put them in the same cot bed in our bedroom for the first little while and then move them to separate ones when they go into their own room (2 cod beds ain?t fitting in our bedroom!). During the day for downstairs we have been advised to get a travel cot which will grow into playpen and the carry cots from the pram. We have bought our first baby purchase - a bugaboo donkey - I love it! Collecting it on Saturday. BB3 hope you still love yours after a few weeks of use??

Dream sorry you have had the stresses of a sick DD on top of everything, hope she is better soon. Wow I also think I would drive DH nuts if he was a GP! Good news on the scan.

Happy birthday Claire!

Hi quempin!

MrsStevo, #1 & 2, EDD 23/08/2011, Lincs, MCDA ID,
Tiggersreturn #2+3 EDD 26/09/11 NW London DCDA - not finding out
silverangel #1+2 EDD 2/10/11 MCDA, ID- not finding out
BB3
PeelingmyselfofftheCeiling #1+2 EDD, DCDA, Boy and Girl, Born 14 Sept

xkatyx , ID girls, DC 8,5,9months, EDD 14/1/12
Ravenlocks DCDA, #1&2, EDD 28/01/12
Tabbycatt, DCDA, 2 boys, DC 2 & 3, EDD 30/1/12
Claireinmodena DCDA, Boy & Girl, DC 3 & 4 (!!), EDD 23/02/12
Dreamfeeder, prob DCDA, DC 2 & 3, EDD 05/4/12

dream glad she is improving x

raven yay for first purchase!! I do very much love my donkey. For day time sleeping we use the pram bits on the donkey as they are proper 'beds' iyswim with a firm wooden base and mattress so just like moses basket (if not better) so you might not need travel cot x

Hi Raven
Re my history - at my 20 week scan one of the little blighters was hiding and they couldn't do a measurement, so we had to go back at 21 weeks. In that time my amniotic fluid levels in one twin dropped, which was - therefore entirely flukily - picked up at the second scan, and they suspected PROM (premature rupture membranes).
I had another scan 2 weeks later which showed no dramatic change, and was told just to take things a bit easy and drink lots of water. Apart from stopping my 3 mile hikes with the dog, my life carried on pretty much as normal. One day I woke in a panic feeling 'damp' (apologies if TMI) and went into hospital to be checked out, but was told it was just normal levels of moisture for pregnancy (definitely TMI!). There was definitely no gushing or dramatic waters breaking.
At 24 weeks they gave me steroid injections to help the twins' lung development, just in case. Then at my 28 week scan (which was actually 29 weeks), the fluid levels had mysteriously topped themselves up, everything else was normal and my consultant effectively said she didn't want to see me again.
A week later my waters went very suddenly! So I have no idea if the two factors were related or not. Basically everyone kept saying it was very hard to get a true reading of fluid levels with twins, and that they can come early for all sorts of reasons, but I'm assuming the two are connected.
That's probably no help to anyone, apart from to say a suspected PROM isn't necessarily irreveserible, and early delivery can still result in healthy babies - and ours seem to be going from stength to strength every day - but get your bags packed just in case!!

raven, lifting in and out of a travel cot is a pain in the neck I think! Unless you get one that has the younger baby bit that lifts the level up and you don't have to reach right in- ours is a reach right in job and it's hard on the back. DD slept in our old 'proper' pram top in the day, much better than the moses basket (that she HATED!) and she was snug and off the floor so not draughty. Jealous of your donkey! DH was interested until I told him the price. I'm not allowed one!!! What colour did you get?

peeling, I'm really interested by your history- so lucky the PROM was picked up at the 21 week scan. Makes me slightly nervous! I had PROM (prolonged rupture of membranes) with DD, but at term, so I was induced. Do you think the steriod injections made a big difference to how well your babies are doing for being early? So lucky you got the right treatment, just in case. And 2 beautiful, healthy babies . and raven, I also have a 'gut feeling' I will go on forever until induced or sectioned. I never went into labour last time, even after PROM which is unusual. I can't imagine actually going into labour myself, ever!

I saw the consultant yesterday. For all that I was nervous she was lovely. She has booked me for growth scans after my 20 week scan at 24, 28, 30, 32, 34 and 36 weeks. She also started me on 5mg folic acid (I asked the midwife about this who said I could stop taking it algother- she was wrong, as usual!) and prescibed iron for when I stop vomiting and my tummy settles down, as she thinks I'll need it at some point. I don't know if part of the reason for lots of scans is I'm slight and 5'4" and DH is quite a big 6'4", and she said I was looking big for 15 (+0!) weeks even accounting for twins... And I know it's not fat yet as I'm still less than my pre-pregnant weight. I do know I carry big already, but I'm a bit apprehensive of just how huge I'll be.

She talked about delivery, and said even with my third degree tear which was slow-healing, if I was delivering early at 30 weeks ish she thinks I could go for a normal delivery as they'd be so small, but if I go nearer term, depending on how big I am, she might lean more to section. She also said that if twin 1 was head down, and twin 2 was breech, they would try to deliver twin 2 'assisted breech', which she said would be "more uncomfortable" than a normal head-down delivery. As I found a normal head down delivery excruciating last time that makes me very nervous... I can choose a section electively anyway because of my history and this being twins, but I kind of don't want to choose a major operation and 'wuss out' but at the same time am very worried about the thoguht of natural birth x 2 after last time...

Hello ladies do you mind if i join in, i have been surfing mn for ages now and at lasthave found you, you have made me cry and laugh and seem to have the best advice. I am 34weeks pregnant with dcda twin girls due byc section on the 22 november dh left when he found out ( a hole) and i also have gorgeous 5 year old daughter, the days seem to drag now and im in so much pain wth psd/spd -not sure which way round it goes. please tell me i will getsome energy soon i hope you are all doing well xx

twinnervws welcome although I had to read your post a few tomes to believe it - he left because of the twins? Why?!?!! A hole indeed! Well done on getting to 34 weeks - how you feeling? X

dream you'll be in a better position nearer the rime to decide on cs or vb. I was desperate for vb but the cs was a blessing in disguise and couldn't imagine labouring with two now xxxx

hello BB, yes quite unbelievable we been together 15 years my first and only but hey ho at least i will have two more lovely girls to keep me company his loss. I would of liked a vb my dd shot out after 2 hours so thought that was a doddle but to be honest dont think i would have the energy and with them both breech it was kind of sorted awhile ago, although with all the aches and pains now they could well be early- secretly hoping but know they are best off where they are for awhile yet. im also stressing about how hard itsgoing to be after but trying not to burst into tears about-easier said than done xx i hope you and your family are doing well xxx

Right, I am taking the travel cot off the list until a few months later!

twinnerves welcome and WTF?? Sounds like you are better off without him and you sound very upbeat. Congrats making it to 34 weeks stick with us for the next few weeks!

raven, one like this wouldn't be too bad (I can't make a better link than this). www.google.co.uk/products/catalog?hl=en&sugexp=kjrmc&cp=9&gs_id=1j&xhr=t&q=travel+cot&gs_upl=&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&biw=1600&bih=658&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=shop&cid=4110004189992751351&sa=X&ei=awqrTvm6M8HOhAe8-5G8Dw&sqi=2&ved=0CHUQ8gIwAQ I love my mothercare one for putting up/taking down etc but I wouldn't want to use it every day. If you have the carry cots for your Donkey, I'd definitely use them though. We're going to buy the babydan Babyden as a playpen, maybe even 2 to make it bigger and keep the twins safe from my DD from the beginning and then them safe when I need to change one of te three and want to stop the others topping themselves....

hello again twinnerves, BB3 is very encouraging for someone looking after twins and a toddler (she calms me down!!) and seems entirely sane amid what must be a chaotic time with new born twins and a 2 year old! At least your DD will want to help and is old enough to understand if you tell her you don't have time for x right now, you're feeding the girls etc. I presume she's at school too? Not that I think it'll be easy, but I think it's got to be easier than being heavily pregnant with millions of aches and pains and the expectation and anxiety might be worse than the reality?! I hope And blimey, not long now...

BB3, it's so far away so I don't really know why I'm worrying about delivery now! To be honest, I'm secretly hoping for breech babies so I don't 'choose' a cs but don't worry myself silly about vb and another tear. I know I'm unlikely to have another third degree, or god forbid fourth degree tear, but the recovery from that wasn't a walk in the park so I'm not convinced I'd have an easy recovery from vb, esp if they end up doing an episiotomy and assisted breech delivery. So fingers crossed I'm so enormous the consultant thinks a section is best to avoid re-tearing or they're both breech!!!

Wow twins what a douchebag! Is he still around for dd? Its his loss, he'll miss out on everything but still !! I personally think you sound incredibly strong and together x my dd's were breech and I was desperate fur them to turn but they didn't and have to say cs recovery was no harder or longer (probably easier initially) than my straightforward vb with ds (internal stitches that killed mr for first few weeks). Have you any names picked out?

dream chances are the decision will be taken out of your hands and babies will choose!

So picked dh up from airport at 3am yesterday morning and survived yesterday with a house full of guests (kids Halloween party) on very little sleep then tonight edith -may slept from 9-3 and Ayse-rose from 8-12 then 12.30-3 so I'm hoping to feel more human today. Have also made dh do night time changes (including a ginormous explosion from a-r which involved a full change), he just about managed it but not without a huge amount of fuss - still always good for him to remember how hard it is!

Right better try get a couple of hours sleep x night night x

quempin, I was worrying about whether to take the prochloperazine I was prescribed for the vomiting, and really ummed and ahhed about it. The doctor told me that of course it's best to take nothing, and it's not licensed in pregnancy but the risks of inadequate nutrition and dehydration were higher than the potential risks to the babies. So I took it- though haven't had any for a week, it's manageable at the minute, sometimes once a day, occasionally not at all!!! But I took it from 8- 14 weeks while their brains developed massively and I was a little worried I guess I'd take it if the prof says to as he must be weighing it up against you losing weight and the babies not gaining enough?? But no personal experience, sorry.

I just joined TAMBA, mainly because if I need a whopping triple and don't want a side by side apparently it's one of the only places to go through to get an imported double buggy with toddler seat on top...

Hello dream, yes thankfully dd is at an age that she can help and she does now without complaint shes a little star- ex dh is around far too much for my liking after all you walk out then you should stay away but he puts dd to bed once a week and dd goes to him on a weekend which has been helpful however he lives in the same village and works 100 yards from my house so passes my house and calls in when he feels like it-but like i say it has helped whilst im the size of a whale, twin1 Isabelle is 4lbs 15oz and twin 2 Francesca is 5lbs 11 oz (i let dd choose the names and was very pleased with what she chose) hopefully will be breastfeeding although goodness knows how this will work after the c section. and i think all partners should do all the changes for all the aches and pains we go through. keep well ladies xx

I absolutely LOVE your names twinnerves!! Your DD chose very well. Isabelle was in our top 2 for girls names and I just got persuaded for choice 2 by DH (who in fact came into the ward the morning after she was born while we were officially still deliberating and just started calling her name 2!), and I want Francesca if one of our twins is a girl!! DH not sure but we'll see! At least your ex-dh is still around for DD though, I think it would be dreadful if he just ignored her for a while, so hurtful for her. I knwo what you mean though, I know if it was me I wouldn't want the hearache of seeing him every day and having him bob in like he's welcome after what he's done, and yet I'm sure you have to be civil for DD... Hard times.

My poor DD has a cough and a cold and still has diarrhoea... Massive effort to get her to sleep every night, I really hope this settles down by itself. I ended up rocking her to sleep in the nursing chair tonight, after trying the whole gambit of leaving her in the cot, sitting in the room with her, singing to her, etc etc. The words 'rod' and 'back' spring to mind, but I can't leave her to cry when she's not well or in fact at all, I never have... , and after being so ill... I just hope it doesn't continue like this...

BB3, I hope they don't blooming choose vb (at least right now I hope they don't)!!!!

I know what you mean its really hard when they are ill and all they want is there mummy and really all i want to do is cuddle her too, but always remember they do get better, im terrible when dd cries for any reason too and feel her anguish i think the cuddles help you both. Times are hard sometimes as in the last two years we lost our dog, cat, sold our family home, our best friend died suddenly i had a miscarriage and we got divorced so these little twins are like a ray of sunshine for me and im sure things will only get better now, but itis difficult especially when i love the git! hope your dd gets better soon and you both get some rest, sending cuddles to you both xxx

MrsStevo, #1 & 2, EDD 23/08/2011, Lincs, MCDA ID,
Tiggersreturn #2+3 EDD 26/09/11 NW London DCDA - not finding out
silverangel #1+2 EDD 2/10/11 MCDA, ID- not finding out
BB3
PeelingmyselfofftheCeiling #1+2 EDD, DCDA, Boy and Girl, Born 14 Sept
Twinnerves, DCDA, #2&3, girls Francesca and Isabella, EDD 22/11/11
xkatyx , ID girls, DC 8,5,9months, EDD 14/1/12
Quempin #1&2 EDD 27/1/12, ID surprise
Ravenlocks DCDA, #1&2, EDD 28/01/12
Tabbycatt, DCDA, 2 boys, DC 2 & 3, EDD 30/1/12
Claireinmodena DCDA, Boy & Girl, DC 3 & 4 (!!), EDD 23/02/12
Dreamfeeder, DCDA, DC 2 & 3, EDD 12/4/12

Right ladies, to get the stats up to date if we only re-start from MrsStevo we still need mersymersy, ipswitchwitch, heels and stickthem if you are still around?. Look how close you are Quempin and Ravenlocks, and both your first babies, how lovely!!! And xkatyx is so close to you two too.

Got a bit of cramping and spotting today. Just a bit of spotting, and don't think I'm bleeding currently, but I'm a bit worried. DH is not, as usual!! He keeps saying it'll be fine. I really hope so.

I'm thinking even less rationally than usual today, as after spending an hour getting DD to sleep last night, she only actually stayed asleep an hour and a half before waking every 10 minutes for an hour, to even worse, me not being able to settle her from 10pm til 3am!!!! Nightmare. I am a walking zombie... Now she's recovered from her mystery illness and rash, which my paediatrician friend is pretty sure was roseola infantum, she has a bad cough and cold which is what's waking her up (coughing).

twinnerves, I've put you on the stats bit, you're next to meet your babies!! Unless one of the others is in there first and appear and enlighten us . It sounds like you've had such a tough 2 years, you're being amazingly strong. I hope the next 2 years get better and better!

Morning ladies

Do we need to add princess and her two girls on too?

Sorry on phone so can't add my stats on list but numbers 2&3 (number 1 ds) Dcda girls born 20.09.11 by emergency cs at 37 weeks exactly - Edith-May 5lb 11.5oz and Ayse-Rose 6lb 1oz.

Dream you ok this morning?

We are finishing off some decorating this morning then off to get the girls weighed and then visiting relatives so ds can go trick or treating! I'm a wimp and don't like answering the door late at night if i'm alone so I always go out Halloween night x

No more spotting overnight so Dh thinks I should just wait and see and not keep going to the doctor/ getting sent in like the girl who cried wolf. I'm only 15+4 so ages til my 20 week scan though. As he says, its not like they can do anything though.

I'm also on my phone but will try and put your stats on later BB3. And princesses. You sound very busy!! Are you decorating the house you've built while in the throws of your morning sickness?? I'm assuming that was for you to live in but could be totally wrong!!!
We'd looked for a plot of land to build a house, but didn't find anything suitable and in hindsight I'm quite relieved, its a massive undertaking.

Dh hoping to carve a pumpkin to show dd today :-) He said yesterday he wouldn't want the twins to be two girls when we'd gone for a walk with friends- so in public!!!!! Can't believe it. I think they're two boys anyway, and I'm sure he'll adore them either way once they're here. I was surprised though as he loves dd so much. He does want one to be a girl, just not both. A couple of people pointed out its too late to choose... I hope, assuming nothing's going wrong currently

Hope everyone else is ok. Xx

Dreamfeeder, I hope all is ok, I think maybe call your midwife about spotting. Always best to get these things checked.

Even though my due date is 14th Jan I will be having a csection at 36 weeks so I only have maximum 6 weeks left eeeeek

Room done, bag packed, pushchair bought.

Hope everyone is doing ok

Hello twin mums to be !

I had my non id twin boys 11 mnths and 3 weeks ago. They will be one on Sunday. I can't believe how the time has gone. So reading your thread has brought it all back. This time last year at 36 weeks I could not even get from my sofa to the kitchen! One year on, I'm back at work, whilst the boys cause havoc at home! But they truly are a blessing. And every time I look at them, I still pinch myself and say "OMG there are actually TWO of you."

Anyway another reason for my post is that the boys are just about to go in to their next stage car seats and so I have two stage 0 Isofix car seats going begging. Before I put them on ebay, I thought I would see if any of you guys wanted them. They are Britax seats in reasonable nick. NO accidents in our car with them and come with the isofix base for each seat. They are burnt orange and do have Renault on them as they came to us from close friends who also have twins and a Renault Espace. SO I can vouch that neither they nor us have had any car accidents with the seat in ( or at all actually!).

If anyone is interested, PM me. We would happily accept £50 for the pair. We are in the East Midlands for pick up purposes.

Best of luck to all of you with your pregancies. It will all be worth it!

MrsStevo, #1 & 2, EDD 23/08/2011, Lincs, MCDA ID,
Tiggersreturn #2+3 EDD 26/09/11 NW London DCDA - not finding out
silverangel #1+2 EDD 2/10/11 MCDA, ID- not finding out
PrincessScrumpy #2 & 3, girls
BB3, #2&3 (#1 DS) DCDA girls born 20.09.11 by EMCS at 37 weeks exactly - Edith-May 5lb 11.5oz and Ayse-Rose 6lb 1oz.

PeelingmyselfofftheCeiling #1+2 EDD, DCDA, Boy and Girl, Born 14 Sept
Twinnerves, DCDA, #2&3, girls Francesca and Isabella, EDD 22/11/11
xkatyx , ID girls, DC 8,5,9months, EDD 14/1/12
Quempin #1&2 EDD 27/1/12, ID surprise
Ravenlocks DCDA, #1&2, EDD 28/01/12
Tabbycatt, DCDA, 2 boys, DC 2 & 3, EDD 30/1/12
Claireinmodena DCDA, Boy & Girl, DC 3 & 4 (!!), EDD 23/02/12
Dreamfeeder, DCDA, DC 2 & 3, EDD 12/4/12

Did princess have her girls before you BB3? I know she has a 3 year old too, but that's it!

xkatyx, if I could that easily I would, but the midwives only see you after 18 weeks around here, so it'd be GP appointment, and I know EPU shuts at 12pm and last appointment 11:40 (after my disaster last time with the GP registrar AND new SHO combination who didn't realise so I ended up nearly admitted on the gynae ward as they didn't know what to do with me!).

I'm trying to take it easy today, but we went to look at this people carrier (a Seat Alhambra if anyone has any words of wisdom!) in the next village, and DH loved it, and he's really keen to sell as he's out of work through sickness so it's a very good price. It makes me super twitchy, like it'd jinx us (I do know in reality that's nonsense) as obviously no twins would mean we would not need a people carrier but DH thinks it's too good a deal to miss out on. Plus I had to chase DD around, carry her about etc while the blokes did car chat ( I was feeling too sick to function to change roles anyway) then take her to playground while they went for a test drive so I'm knackered already...

hello smokeybacon! I'm north west so not really suitable for me. I've got one hand-me-down Britax promised too.

dream princess had them at the very end of august the names are on here somewhere I think I remember them but not 100% sure!

On spotting id give mw a call and just keep an eye on it

katy wow 6 weeks - very real now xx

6 weeks Katy, eeek, how exciting!!!