So, the tiredness....

[NoMoreWineForMeThen]

.... does it get any better? I'm 16wks and exhausted. With a twin pregnancy will I just be tired all the way through?

I found it improved at around 20 weeks until about 26w - from 33 weeks the tiredness was like nothing I'd experienced but I was trying to care for dd1 too. My mum had to step in and help. Now my twins are 16weeks old and although I'm tired, it's nothing like when I was pg and the girls are just amazing.

Sorry if that wasn't what you wanted to hear. Might be worth checking iron levels and upping your iron intake - make sure you take it with orange juice as it helps your body to absorb the iron.

I'm really struggling :( Thankfully I'm off work until the new year so that's a help but, honestly, I can barely summon the energy to shower. It's causing issues between me and DH now too. I'm sooo tired

I got signed off work at 29 weeks and that helped.

Get your iron levels checked out, make sure you eat small but often to maintain energy levels.

As for DH as he is never going to be pregnant with twins tell him to back the feck off and leave you alone.

I'm 22 weeks and finally over the worst of the early tiredness- for how long I don't know... I remember feeling quite desperate at 16 weeks. Dd being exhausting+ ill, ill and more illness, I'm STILL trying to get het to sleep as I type on my phone in her room but now it feels more like 'normal' tiredness I'd expect from difficult times with dd than the overwhelming nailed-to-the-bed/chair feelings I had a few weeks ago.

I am taking iron supplements so hopefully my levels are OK.

Yes, thinking I'll need to finish work as soon as possible. I fear for how tired I'll be towards the end. I keep telling myself to stop bloody moaning and to pull myself together. I'm not the only person to ever have had twins and surely others have coped far better... but man oh man, I am freaking tired.

I fell asleep whilst DD was playing today. She was fine and came to no harm as I only nodded off for a minute but it did frighten me a little.

I had to take double amount of iron so still worth checking. I know the feeling of falling asleep when "watching" dd1 - it was at 35 weeks I fell into a proper deep sleep. Like you dd was fine but it really made me feel unable to care for her. I called my mum and she had dd for 3 days, then she was with me for the weekend (dh was around) and dh took the monday off as holiday, I had the twins on the Tuesday.

I found that with twins it's very up and down - one minute I felt fab, the next I couldn't cope... that's kind of carried on after their birth. Thank goodness for free childcare vouchers - dd1 gets a break from the babies and gets stimulation she's not getting at home... generally I fall back on tv, laptop and ds to entertain dd1 (all the things I thought I'd never do in my ideal world).

Oh, I'm so glad you said that princessScrumpy, I had come back today to say what rubbish I wrote, I'm totally knackered again today (when yesterday I felt pretty good, and on top of things etc), can hardly bring myself to do anything, and right now, I really should be doing some cleaning not faffing around on mn... but here I am... Took til 10:45 pm to get my DD to sleep yesterday, and the lack of a relaxing, 15-month-old-free evening has sapped me for today. I have decided to take 2 weeks annual leave from 28 weeks, and start mat leave from 30 weeks, especially as I don't know if I'll go back to work with three under 2.5 so making an actual loss on childcare to keep my job....

I am not taking iron, as I am having problems with going to the loo and a lot of bleeding (TMI, sorry...) and am having a full blood count with my next scan and consultant appointment at 24 weeks on the 29th, so will see. I think I'm more just physically exhausted than anaemic now, but I guess you don't know really.

And I have seen you on a couple of other htreads PrincessScrumpy, and you are so encouraging. You sound like you're enjoying your twins already, when they're still so tiny (I was kind of expecting the first 6-12 months to be nothing but relentless, exhausting slog!). Are they 16 weeks ish now? I think when my DD hits 2 ish, so my twins will be about 6 months then, I'll try and start her in nursery.

And nomorewine, today, it is definitely me who needs to pull myself tgether! But I do think the twin pregnancy is so much harder than singleton, for me so far anyway. And I didn't think I 'breezed' through my first pg, but in hindsight, I did!!! Hope you're feeling better today. How old is your DD?

Hello - mine started to get better around 16 weeks although I still sometimes came home from work and went straight to bed. Worked to 28 weeks and could have gone on a bit more but I didn't have any others to look after. Congratulations and good luck.