Anybody else pregnant with twins – or more?

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My twins are due in May and it would be nice to have other multiple-mums-to-be to chat to!

Congratulations Barbarella. Take my hat off to you - triplets, wow, & a first timer too.

Congratulation MM. The babies sound like they are doing really well. Is anyone else feeling scared now AQ and MM have their babies. Having my twins was always months away and now it is next month!!! Scary!

Barbarella Congratulations on your triplets. I read Jackie Clunes book on having her triplets and it was really entertaining. At 16 weeks I bet your bigger then us twin mums at week 30!

Balamoraybaby I am getting the out and about nipper for my double. I will also use my old pram which has a carrycot for a few weeks whilst I can fit both babies in.

Had another bad night last night and then had to go to work this morning. Only 2 more days at work though and then I can have power naps during the day when my 2 ds's are at school/pre school. Hooray!

hi balamorybaby, there are loads of us having boy/girl twins now. anyway i had the icandy apple and thought it was ok but wasnt convinced at the quality. i didnt get the pear because just too many people said how heavy it was and the seats were very small. people on e-bay seem to be selling them after a few months which is never a great sign. i just really wanted the chassis so i could put the maxi-cosi car seats on as well but its alot of money to spend. if you get a cheap one on e-bay then you could try it and re-sell it if you hate it (and possibly make some money) the cheapest one i have seen was £250 buy it now and it was only on there about 5 minutes.
i have tried loads of doubles out as my two are under 17 months apart. the moutain buggy urban was by far the best for me. it depends what you want to use it for. we go to the beach and in the muddy woods alot so the maclaren type buggies were a waste of time. my friend with twins had a maclaren twin for years but they dont have a car and live in the city, so it was great for busses etc. i have a secondhand twin maclaren techno this time as my second buggy to the MB urban because it might come in handy later on going to twin toddler group which is in the city and far from the car park (and its less likely to get stolen) it will also be handy for trips to the doctors as its more compact. my main buggy is the mountain buggy urban with twin carrycot, its actually narrower than the maclaren but longer. as i said i had one before and loved it, they are pretty much indestructable. mine cost £90 from e-bay and £60 for the carrycot.
other buggies i have had, m&p aira (not very good quality and bulky) jane powertwin (tendancy to tip with a toddler in the front) jane twin two (really big and heavy, terrible wheels) ABC everest (excellent buggy but no carrycot, big plus is you can add a toddler seat on as well) easylife twin and single with toddler seat (really heavy and chops your fingers off when folding)mutsy with duo seat (really hard to steer and really heavy and wide) phil and teds E3, sport and twin (overall great buggies but not as great quality as the MB). i have probably had some more but i cant think of them at the moment.

if you have other children as well the mountain buggy can take two buggy boards and you can push it with one hand. my second choice is the ABC (adventure buggy company) everest. you can have the single with the reclining toddler seat for twins or the twin version with as many as two toddler seats on top. its lightweight and just as good as the mountain buggy. the only downside is that they dont do a carrycot and the twin MB carrycot is lovely.
see if you can get to a big baby shop and have a good look at the twins available. if you decide on one look on the internet as places like kiddycare often have them cheaper. also as long as you can remove the covers for washing, e-bay is a great place for cheap secondhand buggies. there are also some on mumsnet, netmums, tamba, preloved and the adtrader. i got my secondhand maclaren twin techno from a secondhand baby shop in norwich. it was in excellent condition with all the accessories still in sealed bags and it was £70.

i believe it is sometimes better to get a secondhand good quality buggy than a new cheap lower quality buggy. i saw a lady with 8 month old twins in TKMAX with a twin hauck buggy. the wheels were so buckled the buggy wobbled around like a broken shopping trolley on a roller coaster. it certainly put me off hauck buggies, it cost her £399 and didnt last 8 months!!!

sorry about the big post i am a buggyholic!!!

Wow Mel - I am definitely going to run my buggy choices by you before I spend any cash. A fountain of buggy knowledge to be sure. .

Congrats and welcome Barbarella, I genuinely bow at triplets!

I have an MB double with 2 carrycots and would definitely would rather have the single carrycot so they are together & it will fit them longer, in fact thinking about trying to buy one on ebay. I think I must have bought v.badly as I paid £300 and it's in bad shape really, it wobbles & creaks a lot but generally MB's are fab fab fab. I looked at the pear, we didn't like it as it was incredibly heavy to push and manoevre. We also have a baby jogger city mini double and it's great, would highly recommend if you want something lighter. V. easy to push, lightweight, hoods come down nice and low so babies out of the wind etc. Smallish shopping basket though. I would have preferred to get the out and about nipper but it wouldn't fit through the door. I don't actually find it that much of a problem moving them from car seat to buggy etc.

Does this look a good deal anyone? here

Hello all, fantastic buggy advice Mel, brilliant and so useful. Huge congrats to AQ and MM, you both sound so relaxed it's inspiring. Congrats barbarella - goodness, triplets, that is amazing! Am now 25 weeks and feel scarily enormous. The boys are in the 90th centile for singletons and no sign of ttts so am feeling good in that way, just have no idea how I am going to stretch and go another 9-11 weeks (they've said 36 weeks will be the latest for the c-section). Only checking the thread rarely as DS1 is running me off my feet, plus he had chicken pox and we're trying to find somewhere to live. sold the flat hugely under value but them's the times I guess. All a bit stressful, trying to keep calm. Also not facing up to the fact that the car undoubtedly can't take 3 car seats, overwhelmed by the expense of a new car/moving etc. Really wanted to be settled somewhere, have the twins' room set up and all equipment bought, but given we don't know where we'll be that's unlikely. AQ and MM - have you got any extra help at all? And if not, how are you coping?!

tallulahbelle, its a good price, personally i havent tried one but i know they drop in value (hence the great secondhand price) i have a friend from nursery who had one and she used to put it in the MPV all in one as she found it really hard to fold but there might just be a knack to it. go and have a look and see what you think.

wow nellstar, 90th centile is fantastic, mine were on the 12th at 24 weeks (such a worry) and are now 36th and 37th. you must be eating something good. i am working hard to keep their weights up but have gone off all food, so i have to make a huge effort.
luckily we didnt have to move but finding a new car was terrible. i do really feel for you as moving is so stressful let alone when you are pregnant. we moved when i was heavily pregnant with DD1 and DS1 was small. i hope you have loads of family to help.

Hi Nellstar, was wondering if you were OK. Sounds like you've been very busy incubating efficiently - 90th percentile is amazing. Poor you! Have you been to yoga recently? I think it's too far for me to drive now, so I'm resigning myself to the ones more locally. Sorry to hear about your stress with housing and cars, we are in the middle of negotiating the write-off cost for our car after my DH's accident (he's fine now), then have to decide on the next one too. Looks like the frontrunner is a Delica at the moment, more like a minibus but then I guess that's because we're a big family!

I do believe we're going to need a new thread soon - amazing! Should we move our next thread to the Multiples topic, so our post-natal mums don't think they can desert us too quickly?

Barbarella Hello there supermum. So happy for you. This multiple thing is amazing isn't it?

Balamoraybaby congrats on b/g. Sometimes I feel as if I should have had b/g. I have id girls and somewhere I saw layettes that said "1 of 1" and "1 of 2". haha. Anyways this is about you. enjoy!

NellStar sending you all the calm vibes I can find.

I am hanging in there one day at a time. This pregnancy is really draining. Picked up some knitting and painting to pass time productively.

Barbarella Hello there supermum. So happy for you. This multiple thing is amazing isn't it?

Balamoraybaby congrats on b/g. Sometimes I feel as if I should have had b/g. I have id girls and somewhere I saw layettes that said "1 of 1" and "1 of 2". haha. Anyways this is about you. enjoy!

NellStar sending you all the calm vibes I can find.

I am hanging in there one day at a time. This pregnancy is really draining. Picked up some knitting and painting to pass time productively.

jus poppin in. nell, my parents have helped a lot, they come 3-4 days per week, also dh is still on paternity and my ds goes tp playschool 4 mornings per week, so i've had a ball so far. tbh, the last weeks of pregnancy were so hard that actually havinbg them feels a lot easier and i am so much happier.

really enjoying them, tho still surreal that there's 2! greedy guzzler mirissa has caught up her brother's weight in just 13 days. he is still slightly under birthweight, about 6lb4 and she has put on 7oz!!!

My, look how long my thread has got [proud emoticon]! Yes, I think moving to the multiples board would be a good idea.

Hope you are all well and getting excited about your DTs. Mine are six months old now, I can hardly believe it, and are just wonderful.

BTW I have the MB and I love it, had the double carrycot which was fab, it is easy to maneovre (SP?) but quite awkward to get in and out of the car. I can do it on my own but it is easier if DH is holding one end and me the other. Trying to get it in and out of the car with the carrycot on was a nightmare (and it took up a lot of space!) but it was worth it.

Hello pregnant ones! Greetings from the other side. My twins are nearly two now (pink and blue), but this is a nice cosy thread so hope you don't mind me just jogging alongside you a while! It sounds like you're all doing brilliantly! It's so horrible, those last weeks, it's funny cos I was going through all that at this time of year two years ago and somehow keep getting strange reminders of it because of the time of year. To the one whose partner travels a lot and mum is far away, (my situation too), you are doing the right thing in looking for help. The website Gumtree has always been the best bet for us, though you have to kiss a lot of frogs (eh, Pazza?) and look at a lot of pictures of sinisterly grinning nannies with hapless babies squidged up against them - and a lot of very wierd spelling too! Best wishes to you all x

Thank you mel, anjix, mm and getting bigger for the kind messages. Cheered me up after I burst out crying this morning as DS1 went off to nursery. Normally love my time to get things done on his nursery day (and have endless paperwork to do with flat sale) but couldn't bear to see him go today. Oh those pesky hormones. Sadly we're in London and family spread across the globe - parents in Italy a lot of the time but MIL though she lives in Warwickshire is very helpful and willing to come down when she can, but they run a b&b so it's hard to do it regularly. Getting bigger - I am so sorry about your DH's accident - I hope you are all ok, what an awful thing to happen, not what you need as you head towards the finishing line, I have been to yoga, does me good I think, shame not to see you there, but can totally see why. Good idea to move to the multiples thread. Brilliant to hear mm is having a ball, that is inspiring!

MM so lovely to hear such positive thoughts, after a very uncomfortable night and slow waddle to drop off DD at nursery it's nice to have something to look forward to.

I have done the deed and started a new thread in the Multiples area, hope that's OK and you'll all join me here.

Hello ladies can I join you? Found out yesterday that we're having twins (had clomid and they run in the family!). Bit surprised as consultant at 7 week scan said there was definitely only one but hey ho. DD 2 and a bit so in for a busy time of it.
Happy but slightly overwhelmed mummy

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Congratulations SarahKatie!

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Hello, I am new to Mumsnet and 11 weeks pregnant with twins, I already have a 3 year old girl. I have a lot of questions for anyone who has already survived the twin thing so looking for any good advice first on how to survive the pregnancy! I am type 2 diabetic following gestational diabetes in my first pregnancy and really struggling with the extra anxieties of this . Would be really interested to hear from anyone diabetic who is also pregnant with, or has already delivered, twins.