Twins Club 4!! All welcome. :-)

[rednellie]

Right ladies, welcome aboard for mutual hand holding. Here are the stats - they're probably all wrong!

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 Sophie, 3lb3 & Alice3lb1 born at 31+2 on 01/08/11 EMCS
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, born 18/11/11 EMCS 6lbs 6 oz and 6lbs 9.5oz
xkatyx , ID girls, DC 8,5,9months, ELCS 23/12/11 Rosie and Hollie
Quempin #1&2 EDD 27/1/12, ID boys, T1 5lb5oz, T2 just under 5lb, ELCS 36 weeks
Ravenlocks DCDA, #1&2, 6.01.12 T1 Boy, 4lb 12oz, T2 Girl, 6lb
Tabbycatt, DCDA, 2 boys, DC 2 & 3, 2/1/12 at 36 weeks, VB, T1 5lb 5oz, T2 5lb 11oz
claireinmodena dcda bg born 8/2 Emma (2,870 kg) and Riccardo (2,310 kg)
StinkingBishop 2 &3 DCDA girls EDD 19/3/12
RedNellie DC 2&3, DCDA boys, EDD 28/3/12
DreamingOfPeace, DCDA boys, DC 2 & 3, EDD 19/4/12
Skitoo: DCDA Boys, DC #1&2, EDD 14/05/12
Bigboobsatlast: MCDA Boys, DC #2 & 3. EDD 23.05.12
Buonasera, 1&2, DCDA, EDD 22/05/12 (???)
Lilyni DC 4&5, DCDA, EDD 12/06/12
goimgmadtrying: mcda id girls dc 3&4!!!! edd 05/08/12
Teds DCDA #1&2 EDD 31/07/12
Kazar99 DCDA EDD ???

Home after 1 night Desiren - that sounds great! Glad you are feeling good, but it must be hard not having your Mum near - and its times like this we really miss those who not with us anymore.

Hi Chargos and congratulations on your pregnancy! More boys! Definitely seem to be more twin boys on here than girls. People seem to have different levels of help, but the message seems clear that help is needed and say yes to any offers! I have a week to go before I have my boys, and my 2yo DD goes to nursery 3 days a week and my parents are going to come up for as long as I want them - so lots of help to start with, and then we will have to see! Are you still working or are you on mat. leave already?

Hi again Nebbo - and well done on getting to 12 weeks! An important milestone for being able to park some of the worry (well, sort of!).

Dream, great photos - yes, what am impressive bump on your tiny frame! and the boys look absolutely beautiful! How is DH doing? Still recovering?

Have just scanned so will catch up with the news properly later...but quickly for now, yes, DCDA twins were 4 weekly checks with the obs, which are pretty cursory unless the scans have shown something up. On help - TAKE EVERYTHING YOU CAN. What's been really handy actually is asking anyone who comes to visit (and being quite brazen about it, don't wait for it to be offered) to bring food. And that's proper food - stews for the freezer, pies etc - rather than brownies. BF twin Mums cannot live on chocolate alone, would that were the case!

Have been a bit slow on the blogging front as, well, I have twins! But today's post is a boring yet practical one on the routine we've managed to establish. Might be of interest to someone!!!

likepeasinapod.com/2012/04/22/charlotte-and-romilly-and-the-quest-for-the-holy-grail/

Loving all the advice and being reassured that there are plenty of you out there with twins - and other kids!!!! Dreamingofpeace I just had a look at your pics and the boys are gorgeous!!! Makes me v broody and excited! Have 28 week scan tomorrow morning and feeling nervous, never quite know what to expect.
bigboobs loving the name by the way, exactly how i feel (!) how amazing you only have a week to go, are you feeling prepared? are you having a c-section?

Congratulations Desiren! Would love to see some photos when you get a spare minute.

I'm feeling very overwhelmed today. I'm thinking too far into the future and worrying about everything...how will I manage to take both if them to the park, how will I get them in and out of the car safely when they're toddlers..argh! Not to mention getting through the pregnancy and newborn days. It all seems a bit much at the moment :(

Celestia. A good buggy, reins and a system. For us, it's girls put in car seats and then put in the porch, then ds put in the car, strapped in, collect the girls (Ds still visible) and strap them in. When getting out the car, buggies out first by the side of the car, girls out and locked onto the buggy then DS out, his bee backpack (like a rein) or on the buggy board and off we go. I am guessing with the park that they are reined in until you get to the closed off area of the park and then let loose! you'll figure it out! We all will! Don't panic! Newborn days are tough but just take all the help you are offered and try to sleep as much as you can! Again, you get through it, you might have an unhealthy addiction to chocolate and coffee and a fair few more wrinkles but you do get through it

Hallo ladies, bumps & babies!
Hope you are all doing well. My weekly monitoring went a bit pear-shaped today :( Blood pressure a bit high, twin 1 had a very high heart rate for about 10 mins and my blood tests are dodgy again. So after deciding NOT to have the steroid jabs (as I would be 37 + 3 on 1st May) and discussing benefits & risks with a Neonatal Consultant today I ended up having the first jab afterall (it stings for a good 30 mins but then clears up). I'm back tomorrow for monitoring etc when I would actually like to be sleeping instead, grrr.
Sorry to moan, I just want the twins to arrive safely.
Hope you are all feeling well, getting lots of rest and eating chocolate in abundance xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Desiren - congratulations! What an amazing birth story and what lovely names. Am so happy for you and your family, and just sorry your Dad isn't around to see them. Loss and birth seem to go hand in hand a lot of the time. I had a loss on the day the twins were born which was very hard, but having them helped me heaps.

scollister, what a bummer. But glad you got a decision about a jab and that you're prepared for things. You're so near the end - I had the boys at 37+6 and they were both great weights and fighting fit. Hopefully you can cook them a bit longer.

celestia, don't panic! We're surviving on the other side, it takes some planning as BB3 says, and I've had a few moments which have felt like those logic problems where you've got 6 sheep that you need to get across a river with one raft and you have to do it in 3 moves. Or something. Anyway, you get what I mean.

Waves to everyone else - we're having our 6 week check this week and then signed off. How fast has that all come about? I've even booked them in for the first set of jabs...WOW

Bugger, just lost my message! It said something like this...

Scollister - sorry to hear things have not gone quite according to plan this week. I hope monitoring goes ok today and you still get chance to rest / sleep. It wont be long before you have your babies...do they/you think you will have them before your planned c-section next week? You have done really well to get this far. Let us know your news!!

I like your analagy Rednellie! I am not worrying to much about the logistics of things - not thinking too far ahead - and I know we will all find a way around things and be able to get on - we will have to won't we?! Can't believe your little ones are 6 weeks!!

Its really hard not to let your mind race Celestia, and to worry about all the challenges we are going to have to face - but face them we will!! You will be fine, and you will work out your own ways to deal with things. We all have days when we feel overwheled. Are you feeling better today?

Chargos - I will probably have to change my name soon as my slightly larger boobs will go back to their normal 32A when I stop feeding babies!! I am boooked in to be induced next Monday. Feeling prepared - I think - although need to do some more mental preperation for the actual birth! Not sure if I will ever be prepared to push out two babies but hey ho!!

Hope new mummies Desiren and Dream are getting on ok, and hello to everyone I have missed! Going - do you finish work this week??

Thank you very much you lovely ladies. I'm feeling much calmer today and much more rational today :)

Lol,please send some calm and rational vibes my way celestia, I'm not!! I'm still struggling with constant feeding and cluster feeding from 7-8pm til 12-1 am and they still dont sleep more than two hours then. I gave an ebm top up last night, didn't help except to give my sore nipples a quick break.

I hope those babies/ blood pressure are behaving today scollister.

So exciting about how many babies are arriving soon :-)

hi ladies just had a fab consultant appointment, all measurements good, and fluid levels equal :) t1 head down and t2 head right up!! placenta on the move but still down a bit, but she confident it will continue to move, babies are weighing 1lb12oz and 1lb14oz!!! so so pleased and things seem more relaxed, she advised the risk of tts is less after 28 weeks, so all moving in the right way :)

sorry for the me me post just so excited

Yay for good scan goingmad, calming thoughts celestia and babies soon bigboobs and scollister.

Boo for lack of sleep still dream and worries scollister - how did the monitoring go today?

Oh and bigboobs I've just finished bfing and my boobs are unnervingly small

bigboobs finish work on Monday just in time for your babies x

thanks bb3 :)

great scan news going and only days left to go at work!

hmmmm, will have to start getting used yo small noonday again! to be honest they still look tiny anyway as my bump dwarfs them! but I know I am wearing a D cup! ;-)

wish I had words of wisdom dream. thinking of you and IT WILL GET BETTER X

Noonday! Wft! Meant boobs!

Hello Desiren what a wonderful birth lots of congrats!!

Welcome chargos and celestia, I have two dds aged 7 and nearly 11 (going on 15!!), and twin b/g now 11 weeks.

I had to have lots of help throughout preganncy as was put on bedrest at 27 wks, babies born at 37+6 by cs (t1 was breech), which I struggled with tbh, so having help in first few weeks after op was a must! I was also still suffering from SPD so not very mobile.

So in total I had my mum or mil in the house for four months! And as soon as I could after the birth I said I wanted to cope on my own (mil could not understand how I might not want help, but thats another story!) as I desperately needed to regain control of my house.

I do have other forms of help though, I have a cleaner twice a week (cleans and irons) and a babysitter about once a week to take dds to dance lessons, or for me to go and do the shopping on my own.

Dh is out of the house 13 hours a day and the evenings can be hard going when they both cry and want to comfort feed and find it hard to go to sleep but it is slowly getting better.

Good luck scollister and bigboobs you'll be holding your babies very soon!

sorry if I have forgotten anyone, sleep deprivation and all that

just back from scan - all good. estimate is that one baby is 5lb 8oz and the other 5lb 15oz! both babies very squashed now though so measurements were difficult to do, so only an estimate.

so all good to go on monday - got to get to labour ward for 8.30am and then go from there. so excited AND nervous! can't believe i have made it this far and babies will be here so soon. 36 weeks today so will be 36+5 on monday.

woop woop!!

woop woop!!!!!

that is excellent news bigboobs well done for getting this far, such good weights :) are you being induced or cs sorry i forget? can't believe its here, all the very best hope you have a lovely last twin free weekend

What a fantastic scan goingmad, how lovely you can start worrying less about TTTS. Must be a weight from your shoulders now :-)

Great for you too bigboobs! Though I'm sure you've not done enough whinging to be 36 weeks ;-) . Feeding two I'm currently wearing a 34 E tho can get in a 34 D so clearly varies

To cheer me up, someone asked me in the playground if number 4 was on the way... No, thanks for helping my confidence with the post-twins, totally separated stomach muscles image issues though!! I know I still look a bit pregnant but seriously!!

scollister, hope everything is ok. Does your silence mean they're here?!

37+6 is clearly the time for twins at the minute- Claire, rednellie and i have all just had ours at 37+6 :-) .dcda of course ID ladies.

Claire, I'm very impressed you cope with evening crying by yourself, its so hard!

I'm still struggling with the feeding, having to express now, 6 oz a day to top Seb up in the evening and midnight-1am ish as he feeds for hours but won't settle without necking another 3oz ebm... Trying not to panic that he needs this much at 3 weeks today and how I'll keep up and get through one feed at a time, let alone one day! Ben feeding a lot but not needing top ups.

Hope I've not forgotten too much, and you're getting on ok desiren xxx

Oooh bigboobs good luck. And do NOT worry about being induced (you mentioned you were earlier), I know lots of people who've had a great experience. All 3 of my Mum's children were born naturally after her being induced in various different 1970's ways. Anyway, just wanted to say good luck and I'm thinking of you in the next week - SOOO exciting.

dream - stomach muscles pshaw! I've got diastasis too and it sucks. I've even got a little hernia which I am going to give a name so that I can learn to love him. Have you been told what to do/not to do about the muscle separation?

And goingmad that is brilliant news from your scan. REally great.

rednellie I've got a complete 5 finger separation all the way. Got some core stability exercises and stomach muscle ones- just simple ones, basically tighten your tummy muscles and lift your head, aiming to not get the doming of everything pushing up through the no muscles iykwim? I'm meant to wear a support when out and about too- I keep forgetting it! What were you told? Anything to add?

Bigboobs - what great weights for id! Can you believe in 4.5 days you'll have your babies?! I agree there has been not nearly enough complaining!

Oooh scollister do we have babies?

Dream how did you not hit that hugely incentive woman on the head! some people are so rude. It took about 6 weeks for the swelling and pg look to go down for me, I remember asking when the pg belly would go as it was so different post ds! My biggest advice is take it slowly both, especially if you have damaged muscles.

I was too busy being horrified/mortified at the time bb3! I got cross later :-) . Ruined stomach, more stretch marks than skin, total full length muscle separation (physio reckons I'll get back to a one finger gap if I work at it- which I keep not fitting in, argh!) . These bat babies have knackered my body! Still, all the feeding means I've less than a stone to lose and they're only 3 weeks today. All on my tummy where I struggle to shift it anyway though...