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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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Is there anyone else here with 3 sets of twins?

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Suki12345678 · 01/04/2019 22:11

Or something similar???
I'm new on here (can't believe I've only just discovered this) with 3 sets of twins and 4 singletons. I don't think I'm asking for advice as such but is there anyone else with similar experiences they can share?
Thanks in advance.

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Vinorosso74 · 01/04/2019 22:52

We barely have space for one child (plus 2 adults and 1 cat) in a 2 bed flat. Do you have a big house?

IdaDown · 01/04/2019 22:53

How did you find the time / energy to make more kids?

I feel knackered just thinking about 10 kids.

youaremyrain · 01/04/2019 22:54

Are you in the UK?

AnotherEmma · 01/04/2019 22:54

Are you Catholic? Or another religion that is anti-contraception?

firsttimebabybirther · 01/04/2019 22:54

I have 1 child. There's some days I'd struggle to tell you what planet I live on... 10?!

WineIsMyCarb · 01/04/2019 22:55

That's why the endearments "love" and "darling" were invented, I'm sure!

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Suki12345678 · 01/04/2019 23:02

Ineedaholidaynow
Yes we've definitely stopped now (I'm too old apart from anything else). It is pricy but for stuff like clothes/ toys there are a lot of hand me downs and stuff donated by family as they're cousins are mostly older. Me and DH also have quite well paying jobs.
Vinorosso
The house is 5 bedrooms so pretty big (but looks quite normal sized from the outside).
IdaDown
Well, 3 of them came as +1s. It was only six pregnancies (still a lot, I know) but I couldn't have done 10 separate ones!

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Suki12345678 · 01/04/2019 23:05

We are in the UK.

The extended family on my side is Catholic but we aren't. We have, however, been VERY unlucky with contraception

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AllTheFunAndGames · 02/04/2019 16:40

AnotherEmma:

"Are you Catholic? Or another religion that is anti-contraception?"

Wow. You're so ignorant.

Freshprincess · 02/04/2019 16:45

Wow. Hats off to you.

I’ve only got the one set, anymore would have tipped me over the edge.

There’s a family in my road With 2 sets of ID twins. They’re pretty close in age too.

UtterlyUnimaginativeUsername · 02/04/2019 16:46

Does anyone ever offer to babysit? How often does your washing machine explode? When was the last time you had a full night's sleep?

stucknoue · 02/04/2019 16:49

I struggled with 2! I'm kind of sad I don't have more now my babies are grown but that's life

ThriftyMcThrifty · 02/04/2019 16:56

My grandma had three sets of twins, but medical care not being as good then only one set survived birth, the others were raised as singletons. I’ve not had a multiple birth but my cousin conceived twins then triplets. However only one triplet made it.

ThriftyMcThrifty · 02/04/2019 16:57

Anyway my point is I totally believe this post, I see some people questioned it. But multiple births really do run in some families. My cousin was told she was hyper fertile and released several eggs on some cycles. Even her triplets were not identical and had their own placentas

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Suki12345678 · 02/04/2019 17:42

UtterlyUnimaginativeUsername
My sister has babysit quite regularly over the last few years after the last of her own DC left home.
Washing machines (we have two) have broke once each in the last 10 years. No explosions, though.
Sleep is pretty good actually, getting them off to bed isn't too bad but some of them are very early risers. It's fine on weekdays as either me or DH will be up early depending on what hours we're working that day.

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DoreensEatingHerSoreen · 02/04/2019 17:56

Surely it would be 7 pregnancies if you have three sets of twins and 4 singles?

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Suki12345678 · 02/04/2019 18:09

Yes, seven. I'm going to put that down to having been tired, my maths (or memory) isn't usually quite so appalling.

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Stinkytoe · 02/04/2019 18:12

I went to school with a family that had 2 sets of twins, they had 2 singletons, twins, twins and then 3 more singletons.

I’ve the one lot of twins plus an elder child and the risk of more twins is what’s put me off trying to baby number 4!

AnotherEmma · 02/04/2019 18:20

I'm sure I am ignorant about many things but I don't see why my question about Catholicism/religion was ignorant.

I'm usually a pretty empathetic / "live and let live" type of person but I'm afraid I just can't comprehend why anyone would have 10 children, and I wondered if religion was a factor.

Stinkytoe · 02/04/2019 18:23

I don’t think it’s ignorant. A lot of catholic families (at least used to) not use contraception. I went to catholic school and we had many families of over 6 children.

My kids are now at catholic school and families are smaller but I think fewer people stick to the contraception rule these days.

AnotherEmma · 02/04/2019 18:28

Yes I went to a Catholic school for sixth form and there were plenty of liberal Catholics but there were also people who didn't believe in using contraception, including one of the teachers.

(Not Catholic myself and the school was pretty liberal, it had a lovely ethos actually... but the sex education wasn't exactly comprehensive )

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Suki12345678 · 02/04/2019 18:33

Emma,
I don't think it's an ignorant question at all and it's certainly not the first time I've been asked.
But, to clarify, I'm not anti contraception at all. Out of the SEVEN (thanks Doreen) pregnancies, four (possibly five) were conceived with contraception. The first singleton and set of twins were without any and my youngest, while I'm unsure of the exact date of conception may have been. I was 48 when he was born and so we weren't quite as conscientious in that department as we never thought I'd conceive again (probably should have learned by then).

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StateofIndependance · 02/04/2019 18:34

Also, as the OP alludes to herself, large families are culturally more usual in catholic families. She isn't catholic but her extended family are and most have large families like hers.

greyspottedgoose · 02/04/2019 18:35

Wow im impressed, I'm going grey with with two kids!

FenellaMaxwell · 02/04/2019 18:38

Just pointing out this was posted on April fools day.....

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