Twins Club 4!! All welcome. :-)

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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 ???

Yes, ladylily was a troll. I don't get the point, I really don't. Was odd though- prem labour with id twins and not in hospital having steroids/monitoring?! Anyway, kazaar, car sseats is the main thing you need, somewhere for them to sleep- pram, Moses basket, cot and nappies/clothes. Done! Everything else can be got as needed :)

Any news from Baileys? I'd have thought she would be posting as bored in hospital... Anyone think her 3 are here?? Eeek!

X posts Ruprekt

Thanks though Claire.

It was a very strange thing to lie about. It also got me a bit worried. I was in hospital with cramping and lower back pain last weekend and after reading about her going into labour at 33 weeks it really worried me. I am only 27 weeks on Monday so need to cook babies for a while yet. Stupid thing for her to do.

Kazar I hope you get things sorted. You are very brave moving house at 33 weeks with twins! I am going to get a bit more organised this weekend too.

Eh? Why would someone pretend? That's baffling and ever so slightly f*cking weird. Hope everyone's alright.

Sorry guys for radio silence. All fine, can read Internet but connection sooo slow that it is difficult to post.
Everything all stable, so still on for C-section in a week. Lots of baby movements and BP normal. Have had a string of midwives finding heart beats with Doppler though
Spending all my time eating and watching the Olympics. Trying to lay down some fat
On the babies and me ready for breastfeeding so lots of biscuits being eaten.
We are totally unprepared at home, got car seats but that is about it, relying on a few weeks in SCBU to allow us to get sorted.

By the way any one else feel a bit violated that our special thread was invaded? What an odd thing to lie about.

It did seem a bit strange to me, still being at home when in labour at 33weeks with twins. Some people must really have no life!

Hopefully baileys is still cooking her three a bit longer :)

dreaming I went mad on eBay a couple of weeks ago so I have lots of reusable nappies and enough neutral sleep suits and vests for at least the first 3-4 months! I have got a pram with carrycots so they could do as temporary beds plus 2 friends have offered Moses baskets if I want them, plus getting a travel cot and other stuff (but not quite sure exactly what til I get it this weekend) from another friend whose twins are nearly 1. Just really got the hospital bag to sort then I think we'll cope getting anything else as we need it :) Big 24 hour Asda and Tesco nearby means we are unlikely to struggle too much if we do forget anything important! At least, that's my theory.

Oops, xpost with baileys. Glad you are still hanging in there and at least the Olympics makes a change from awful daytime tv:) and yes, it does feel like our special thread has been violated :(

Glad to hear babies still cooking baileys and can't believe we have been violated by a troll :( really don't understand why?????

Oh maaaaan. can't believe it. Feel a bit stupid now. oh well.
great news baileys you are going so well. Olympics and biscuits-how nice!

re getting stuff, as long as you have the essentials then the rest CAN wait but I have to say I got everything I thought I wld need before the boys arrived, that way i knew no one needed to disapear on a shopping trip when I needed them to help me with babies, cool a dinner for us etc. I was lucky though as had everything from dd and lots given to us so only had to buy pushchair and bouncy chairs.

I am knackered. 2 bad nights in a row here thanks to the boys 3 months jabs. hopefully better tonight.

hello to everyone. Off to have a coffee

Morning all I'm still a bit weirded out by yesterday's imposter. It's really a strange thing in itself to open your inner thoughts/anxieties to an anonymous forum and I naturally do it just in full trust that we're all in the same (real) boat. Also, I'm new here so presumed that as she was far on she had been here for ages, but reading back (I'm really, really crap at remembering who-is-who, sorry!) I see she actually only joined after me - I welcomed her and everything! Silly me. Anyway, I'm trusting that the rest of us are not impostors ? !

My early scan (which I had privately because my symptoms weren't strong and I was worried it was a MMC or something) now feels a long time ago even tho it was only last Wed - time is moving really strangely at the moment! All eyes are on the 12+4 scan in about three weeks. Now my anxieties are founded upon my highly unmedical assessment of my belly this morning - lying down the right side seemed a bit higher than the left. A new thing to obsess about!

This week I'm having really strong hunger pangs. I still can't finish a whole meal, but I really need to eat about every two hours. Even had to get up at 0030 the other night for porridge. DH found this funny until I reminded him that, all being well with the pregnancy, it will be him getting my snacks at odd hours in a few months, hehe!

Normally work from home but having to go out into cold and rain today - boo. Hope everyone has a nice day.

PS Baileys - glad to hear hospital is going okay and babies (three!!!) are doing just fine! Keep eating those biscuits

Glad you're still here and still cooking those babies Baileys.

Very freaky indeed about the troll invasion...

I am real! I have a picture of my boys on my profile so you can check there are two

You sound totally sorted kazaar, you'll be fine. For me the hardest thing initially was the sleep deprivation. Having had a totally terrible, up every 2 hours for 8 weeks DD , I though two couldn't actually be much worse but I breed terrible, awful sleepers so it really can!! Friends with twins have not had it quite so bad, but it is going to be hard. Now the hardest thing for me is splitting myself between the twins and DD. Three under 2 is tough, they often all want me simultaneously. I have to say, apart from when DD broke my ancient old bouncer by climbing in, clothes or baby equipment/lack of has never been an issue. What could you possibly need that urgently?! Except bottles if bf didn't go well and you had none, but even I had some of those. Not that DT1 will entertain them .

Excitedly waiting for the new arrivals :)

mandasand, you'll have the asymmetrical tummy lots, it'll depend where they're lying etc. I had 2 'extra' scans for pain, ? mc at 14 and 16 weeks and they could never find a cause for my pains. Bad too, I'd never experienced anything like it with DD, so I would say (as ex-Queen WorryWart on this thread :) ) try not to worry, and look forward to seeing them in 3 weeks.

Morning everyone! I have been lurking but didn't really have much to say - but have been learning lots. Sorry not to name check everyone.

Manda did I read your EDD is 5 March? If so I am just one day behind you!

By the way I'm definitely real. If you search my nickname you'll see I frequented the conception threads for a very long time!

Do you mind me asking you lovely ladies about weight gain? As well as booking in with the midwife I've recently moved and changed GP. As part of this I had to have a new patient health check. Anyway, I'm ashamed to say my BMI has gone from 23 to 29 over the past 2.5 years . I became really low at points during our struggle to conceive and also after two failed IVF cycles, and quite frankly ate too much .

Anyway, nurse told me to make sure I didn't balloon during pregnancy as I can't really afford to put on any weight that's not baby-related.

So assuming you can keep food down,(which I can - vomiting is definitely confined to when I have an empty stomach) how much should I gain during the first trimester? I am 9+3 today and have put on 1.5 lbs since the start of my pregnancy.

Also nurse told me I should be doing more exercise, but I'm shattered when I get home from work and have to lie down, which means I get none during the week so all I'm managing is a couple of very gentle walks with the dog at weekends - and that exhausts me.

Actually I felt really low after my health check. Obviously I do want to be healthy for my babies but came away feeling fat and lazy and then tearful because I'm too damned tired to do anything about it .

Sorry for me, me, me post. Simply feeling overwhelmed.

Thanks dreaming I am in complete admiration for those of you with older DCs as well as the DTs. I'm not sure if I'll cope with 2 so how you manage with 3 is awesome. Hopefully you get some more sleep soon :)

bigboobs and twin2 hope you are both enjoying your DTs and getting some sleep.

baileys hope you aren't getting too fed up in hospital. Not long until you meet your 3 babies now :)

manda I wouldn't worry if your bump is a strange shape. Mine was often uneven. My two both seem to prefer the right hand side. I regularly go for scans and the left hand side is empty and babies are lying one down the right and the other down the middle or across the top. It makes figuring out which one is moving a lot more of a challenge :) any position is possible as I've found out! There was one point at 16 weeks where I went for an extra scan as my bump had gone from being quite solid to really flabby and I got a bit worried but they had both just moved from being at the front at my 13 week scan to both being right against my spine so my bump looked empty! Didn't stay that way for long.

That's me away shopping, armed with a list of things I need for my hospital bag :) really should get more organised - off all week and I still end up going shopping on a Saturday!

knackered don't stress about it. You can only do what you feel up to, and your BMI isn't as high as a lot of other people I know who have had children (and twins in one case). You just have to look after yourself, take your vitamins and get whatever exercise you can manage - as my friends keep telling me, the babies will take the nutrition they need and you get the leftovers. If weight is a concern, then you just need to focus on getting more healthy food rather than living on junk in the next couple of trimesters. I think in the first trimester it was much more about eating whatever didn't make you sick :) in my case that was basically lots of stodgy carbs. I couldn't stomach protein or veg for several weeks!

I felt most tired in the first trimester and stopped doing any exercise (used to go to gym occasionally but twins was a good excuse to stop, plus I hadn't got back in habit after Xmas/NewYear hols). I didn't actually throw up but was really nauseous and even when DH cooked a meal I fancied, could often only manage about half before I was full. I only put on a couple of pounds by 13 weeks but think that was because I lost a couple due to not eating much for about a month between 8-12 weeks!

I found that I got more energy back after about 12/13 weeks and started getting DH to drag me out for a walk in the evening when it was nice (which probably wasn't as often as I should have gone). At least you have the dog to take out so less of an excuse to not go out. I think even short walks regularly will help you. I think I have put on just over 2 stones so far (33+5) but am only just over 5' tall (was a short size 12 before getting pregnant, BMI was probably about 25). I'm back to a stage of not feeling hungry, presumably because DTs have squashed my stomach, but not good when all the books say I should be eating more in the last trimester! We all have something to worry us at each stage :)

After what you have been through to get to this stage, there is no point making yourself miserable worrying about everything. Just concentrate on growing those babies nice and big, and the odd treat or few weeks without exercise (and if that means an extra pound or two so be it), won't make a huge difference :) Oh, and my weight was measured at the start and nobody has weighed me since so I don't think it is a big issue unless you are very underweight or obese to start with which you aren't. At later scans/appointments, all they care about is how well the babies are growing, not how much weight you put on.

Sorry for the essay!

Hello ladies - lovely to check in and see some friendly chatter on the thread :-) I'm on a really nice due in March thread - very busy and fast-paced - but no-one else there is having a multiple birth and sometimes I wonder if my experience is slightly different. Or maybe not - this is my first time so everything's new!

Thanks for advice re tummy feeling higher on right. Hard to believe that whatever tiny size these 9-weekers are can affect tummy right now but who knows what's going on in there?!

Had to go to bed earlier for two hours. We have close friends and their two boys staying for weekend and I was exhausted by 4pm and sent to bed whilst they went to walk by the river and to a nice pub. It's a beautiful day and it would have been nice to go but I've really enjoyed my nap! Our mates are over the moon. They knew we were trying and there were tears even before we said it was twins! We've already got loads of their baby/toddler clothes in the loft (must have been a lucky charm!) and it looks like we'll be getting steriliser and high chair and all sorts now. Yay for nice mates :-)

Hello knackered! Yes, nice to be at same stage as you! How long have you known? Did you have an early scan too? My early scan brought my due date forward from 9 to 5 March, based on size of the beans. (I had wonky periods after coming off contraceptive so it was a bit of a guess on the part of the MW in the first place.) But doc we saw for the scan also said to expect them to arrive early, sometime in Feb, so that's what I'm focusing on, as well as not being very mobile from mid-December! We're not sure what to do about xmas. We usually go home (NW) and sleep in a variety of beds and the odd hotel to see family and friends, but have a feeling I may just want to hibernate at home (Oxford) this year. Hopefully people will come down to see us instead.

I too am definitely real! I was very active on the Just Shagging thread for a couple of months before conceiving :-) Well, active for about a month or so, then less so as I found it all a bit of an emotional rollercoaster and all-consuming, and then I got my BFP!

Over the past week or so my appetite has started to return and I seem to need to eat every two hours. I'm trying to snack on healthy foods (fruit, yoghurt, half a tin of beans on 1 piece of toast) though have eaten a lot of crisps and choc this weekend, oops! I'm worried about getting too heavy. Pre-pregnancy I was about a stone (and a half?) overweight, owing to ten months in the States where I did unhappy-eating and my exercise dropped to almost nil. Found it hard to shift on return to UK, since I spend so long working from home in new job i.e. sat on my arse I'm doing pre-natal yoga and pilates DVDs (gently, as they say you shouldn't do them before 14 weeks) and I've bought some 2lb girly weights which I do when I'm waiting for kettle to boil. My aim with those is to feel in control of just one bit of my body (upper arms) whilst everything else will no doubt go a bit to pot! The tiredness doesn't help, though, does it, knackered? It's overwhelmingly hard to carry on at normal speed sometimes.

kazar your bump tales made me smile! very reassuring too, thanks for sharing :-)

hope everyone's having a fab weekend.

PS crikey, that was a bit of an essay - sorry!

morning! my boys are beginning to stir so I am wide awake ready to whip them in bed as soon as they wake (they then sleep longer!).

welcome knackered. Agree with others not to worry too much about food and exercise, especially in first trimester as you will probably feel pretty rubbish to be honest. you will feel better as time goes on and then rubbish again at the end

mand great news about stuff from friends - every little helps. local twin clubs are good for cheap stuff too, my local obe is fab.

If you want to keep active try ante natal yoga or aquarobics. I did yoga and really enjoyed it and met some nice people I still see now.

I too am real and have photos in here to prove it! of bump and babes! but that troll has freaked me out so going to take most photos off - so have a quick look now if you want to see my massive belly!!

twin pregnancies really are a roller coaster but you are all doing fine so tryyyyyy to enjoy it!

how are you and your three baileys? still getting to eat lots of biscuits? :)

I hope everyone is having a nice weekend.

bailey I hope you are resting up and enjoying time to yourself.

Did a bit of shopping yesterday for bits and pieces. Just mattresses to buy and we are pretty much done. The problem is, the stuff is disorganised and all over the house! I need to sit down and sort through it all. Not looking forward to it.

I wanted some advice from ladies who have had their twins or who are about to burst.

When did you pack your hospital bag? Haven't done mine and I sometimes worry that I should have it ready by now or at least have started it.

Babies clothes for hospital. What exactly do I need? I am thinking some tiny baby clothes and newborn clothes. Vests and sleepsuits. How many of each? Am I on the right track?

My mum will be here in 5 weeks. I haven't seen her since March and I looking to spending some quality time with her.

Halloooo!
I am real too, no pictures, but really who would lie about this stress ;-)
Had a few hours at home yesterday. Was good to be home, but bit stressful as baby clothes everywhere which need sorting and I just can't at the mo. Time at home also emphasised need to be here, felt like I did nothing, but pelvis really sore overnight and tired today, so in best place to last until Thursday. 4 days to go!
garden re Hosp bag. I wrote a long list of everything I wanted to go into it quite early on, and added to it when I thought of something else. Gradually bought bits and pieces, and when it came to packing it a couple of weeks ago it only took me half an hour.

garden i packed mine when i finished work around 27 weeks i brought one pack each of tiny baby sleepsuits and took 3 vests each and 2 cardigans but i knew my dh would wash whilst i was there, i only changed them once whilst we were staying and to come home i also found i needed prem size 0 nappies and got through around 3-4 packs whilst i was in hospital; i also needed cotton wool.

glad to hear things are going well baileys :)

lovely weekend with friends and a gentle evening clearing up after their kids (getting into practice, we were thinking!)

thanks for the tip re twins club. I've checked out the one in Oxford and it meets during the day, but I'll definitely get along to that when I'm further along - perhaps after 20 week scan? Or would it be worth it even before then?

thanks for sharing your photos, bigboobsatlast! what a lovely family and a very compact belly!

glad you got a Pass Out over the weekend, Baileys. That must have been really nice but seems hospital is the best place for you at the mo so keep on enjoying the rest.

night all

Hi guys - please tell me when your morning sickness subsided?

I managed to get to 12 weeks with just nausea but for the past few days, I've started being sick - including having to get off the tube this morning to puke in the bag that my breakfast was in. Grim. I will start weeping if MS kicks in at this stage as the tiredness, headaches etc are bad enough as it is. When did yours fade? I need some nice stories to make me feel better and give me some hope.

Free you poor thing, that does sound very very grim. I would be most upset if I puked all over my breakfast!

I had nausea and vomiting from about weeks 6-18. I stopped being sick at about 18 weeks and then had another few days of vomiting around 25 weeks.