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Multiple births

When do you start showing with twins? What is life with twins like? Join the conversation on our Multiple Births forum.

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Anyone loving having twins but only now the're older!!!!

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Candleshoe · 29/01/2011 20:15

I wouldn't have wished the early months on anyone - I used to want to punch old ladies who cooed over the buggy and said, " I always wanted twins."
However, I'm prepared to say that now they are 8 its Ok - no - its good!
Anyone else pleasantly surprised by starting to enjoy being a mummy of twins?

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tartiflette · 29/01/2011 22:50

Only seven and a bit years to go..............

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Candleshoe · 29/01/2011 23:40

Oh dear!

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Candleshoe · 30/01/2011 00:04

Spotted spelling mistakes - "they're" SORRY!
and "coming" SORRY!

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lulururu · 01/02/2011 08:59

with you on this one. mine are 3 now and i am now settling into my mum groove as a mum of twins. love the things they say and do together and the bond they have and yes definitely wouldn't want to go through the first year again!

BuntingHill · 01/02/2011 10:57

Thought it was just me!

bunnymother · 02/02/2011 03:56

We have 2 month old twins. My DH keeps saying how glad he is we have twins (+ 19 month old). I just smile weakly. The sleep deprivation is appalling. And no end in sight. Frankly, I am not yet glad we have twins, but hope intellectually appreciate that at some point I will be glad. Not there yet, obviously!!

MadamDeathstare · 02/02/2011 04:35

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Gargleswithjelly · 02/02/2011 11:19

Sleep deprivation in the early days caused me no end of trouble ..... I used to come home from the supermarket and put tights in the fridge and yoghurt in the bedrrom drawer! I also once was feeding a packet of biscuits and wondered why it wouldn't latch on properly! Funny now .... not at all funny then.

Bunnymother - it has taken a long time - but it will be ok one day. Just remember that your main job is simply to keep them alive. Sometimes that objective is the only one you can live up to!

OpheliaBumps · 02/02/2011 13:26

They're lovely now they're 8????

Only 6.5 years to go

Gargleswithjelly · 02/02/2011 13:46

OpheliaBumps · 02/02/2011 16:16

Thanks gargles, but DTS will only get hold of the tissue and shred it, so the living room will be covered in snotty confetti (nice image huh?).

Gargleswithjelly · 02/02/2011 18:22

I remember one morning when things were abnormally quiet ...

I came in to find boys had decorated themselves and the room with a combination of shredded tissue and Sudocrem. Again it makes a funny anecdote now - the day it happened it was was exasperating, hard work and infuriating and not in the least bit funny!

bunnymother · 03/02/2011 08:54

Do you know, I have a toddler so don't care that much about home "decoration", but the sleep deprivation. Oh the horror, the horror. I would just sleep when they do, but DC1 needs entertainment/ mummy time. Although am v v lucky as have a FT nanny, so I can look after toddler during the day and twins at night. I cannot wait to sleep again - my fault for following up DC1 (who has only just started sleeping well) w twins 17 months' later.

Jajas · 03/02/2011 09:01

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Gargleswithjelly · 03/02/2011 11:31

Jajas - I know time is ticking on at rather a pace now! I am beginning to think about all the future problems coming our way at secondary school!

MickeyMixer · 03/02/2011 11:38

I wish I'd had a computer and known about Mumsnet - I think just knowing someone 'got it' would've made all the difference. Even our closest family didn't see how badly we were falling apart at the seams. My mum thinks I 'coped admirably' - she just didn't understand at all .

potplant · 03/02/2011 11:53

Gargles - I had the same but switch Sudocrem for the contents of their nappies. 6 years on it still isn't funny!

I was in such a fog in the first 6 months I barely remember it. I have no memory of first words, sit up, roll over, crawling - all that sort of stuff passed by in a haze.

I does get easier though and I wouldn't swap mine for the world now they are 7.

twinsufficient · 03/02/2011 12:01

My dts turned 2 on Christmas Eve and boy do they have attitude! Getting them and my dd1 (6yo) up and out of the house by myself in the mornings and then on to uni by 9am is a killer. People who don't have dts just don't get how much hard work it is and believe the myth that 'having 2 is easier than one as they entertain each other' - er no, they just fight each other and make even more noise! Any tips for taking toddler twins out by yourself? Dh is very good but works v long hours and I am dreading the thought of a summer with all 3 dcs.

MickeyMixer · 03/02/2011 12:05

'having 2 is easier than one as they entertain each other'

THIS above almost every stupid comment made about twins used to make me really LIVID!!! Suppressed rage can't be good for you can it?

bunnymother · 03/02/2011 12:26

A twin mum I know mentioned the fighting - she said her girls attack each other in the side-by-side pram so she doesn't like taking them out by herself as she can't push pram AND separate them. I just bought the Baby Jogger City Select so hope to avoid that problem.

Oh Mickey, sounds like you had a shitty time, sorry to hear it.

TheVisitor · 03/02/2011 12:29

I've loved each age and stage of my triplets and I never say that it's easier, just different things to deal with. Mine are 12 next month and we're dealing with hormones. Bring back those babies!!!!!

charlieandlola · 03/02/2011 12:31

Yes I agree. Mine were fab in the first year, ate and slept on time ( Gina devotee, I need my sleep), horrid from 1-4 and then okish until 5.5-6, and suddenly started being brilliant fun, as they remain at 8.
No doubt the horror of the tweenagers will soon be upon me.

therugratref · 03/02/2011 12:39

Mine are 7, they have become quite tolerable little companions. However the first 5 years were hell on earth. If their nine year old brother was not entering another "stage" of 9 going on 13 life chez rug rat would be sweet.

potplant · 03/02/2011 15:23

'having 2 is easier than one as they entertain each other' Ha what a joke!

twinsufficient - I used the pram mostly up till they were about 3. If we were just going locally (and I wsn't bothered about it aking hours!) then I would use reins. You will become expert at carrying out on the spot risk assessment - as they will no doubt hurtle towards potentailly lethal activites - seperately of course.

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candleshoe · 03/02/2011 22:48

Reins were a godsend once we all got the hang of it!

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