Hello all,
Right now both these babies are hiccuping, but at different times out of sync with each other- feels very strange!
DD, the little menace, slept ALL NIGHT with not a peep out of her. Oh the wierdness of her patterns... She still spent 2 hours getting her very tired little self to sleep, but was down by a reasonable time- well, 9:30pm, that didn't affect me going to bed. I feel a bit washed out today, but I was up with the usual complaints in the night, just without her!!! Which was lovely 
. The trouble is, now she's had some sleep, she'll be capable of another 'big' night of naughty sleep refusing, shouting antics soon... She's just so erratic. oh well, we'll see. She is still so tired today from the night before last she fell asleep in the car on the way home from her music group and I managed the risky but worthwhile transfer to buggy, so she's sleeping in there in the hall with all the other junk piling up now.
goingmad, I'm finding the whole twin pregnancy very different to my first- much more tiring (though some of that will of course be due to the very disturbed nights with DD and chasing her round all day), I feel very 'heavy' already, if I thought I had heartburn and reflux last time, this time its a differnt league and the rib pain . I am so relieved to have stopped at 28 weeks. Maybe, maybe if DD had been sleeping more reliably I could have done another 2, but I think that would have been it. And I was fine to 36 weeks last time. The HR lady I spoke to said it was unusual to go past 30 weeks with twins, 32 max she recommended (i'm on 2 weeks annual leave, then mat leave from 30 weeks). You may be fine til a bit later- the nature of your job must mke a difference too.
oh bb3, that does sound very challenging... Will your sister be having the girls? Personally, I'm such a light sleeper I'd go for twins in their own room! I think I will remain open-minded about how long I have the boys in with me, but I very much doubt they'd still be there at 4 months! I hope it goes better than you imagine (but I'm sure it'll be exhausting). What's the girls' sleep like now?
claire and rednellie, I wouldn't have been able to help myself giving a snotty 'well, actually ' kind of answer... For goodness sake! I am already bored of 'so are there twins in the family?' (no), 'will you be having a c-section?' (don't know) and 'how will you cope?' (how indeed!). Though I will have a section before I'm induced, I'm trying to think myself positive into VB if I go into spontaneous labour before that... It must be the way our bodies do it for a reason... claire, at my last appointment re:dates they said at 37 weeks, 6% of babies need NICU/SCBU, at 38 weeks 4% of babies need it, and at 39-40 weeks 1.2% of babies need it, hence the push for longer gestation if possible. I think mine will end up being 39 weeks, as for me 38 is landing on the day before Good Friday at Easter, and ELCS aren't done on a Thursday so I couldn't have it on Good Friday, as no elective surgery then, so it would either be 37 +5 or wait til 38 + 5. I think I know what the hospital will give me! How do they know the placenta is ok rednellie? from the scan and if the babies are growing? poor ipswitch with her ? placenta failure causing Adam's death is still haunting me (not half as badly as her of course, but it is a big fear for me, and was anyway). And I worry because she had no signs or symptoms,or anything to worry about, and the shock of that at her routine scan doesn't bear thinking about. 
Right, as my plan is 38 weeks, I shall try and make progress with buying some things for a hospital bag, and then packing one!!! That'll keep me pregnant til then. 
DH is getting on my nerves too- when he rang to say he's in the supermarket what do we need- how was I meant to know, I was in the midst of bathtime... and I said 'this haphazard shopping must stop' in a cross tone of voice, 'we need a list' etc he said 'well, I don't know why you didn't do it in the day' . I was gobsmacked- I'd taken DD to a playgroup, nipped in to the supermarket for fruit, bread and milk on the way home, but too near lunch and nap time for a big shop, got home, done lunch, recieved DD's new furniture, put her down for a nap, made several calls like booking in boiler servicing, swept and mopped kitchen floor, got DD up, taken her to playground, tea and bath and I was exhausted and there he is thinking I'm some lady of leisure skimping my share of the jobs!!!!!