Help - I'm enormous and only 24 weeks.

[thechocmonster]

This morning I had the first, "You can't have long to go" comment. Not long! Try 16 weeks to go.

I feel so miserable. I've only put on just over a stone, but both my twins are on the 97th percentile. With both my other pregnancies I've been massive and people have asked if I'm having twins. This time I really am having twins, but am just fearful that I'm going to be doubly massive.

Sorry - wallowing in self pity...

choc

Oh choc, I'm afraid it doesn't get any better! I had my own gravitational field near the end but thankfully couldn't really leave the sofa much! On the plus side you do get lots of help and I even avoided a parking ticket out of sympathy for my waddle (no- it was 'cos I is gorgeous!).

Come and join us on the thread beginning 'D'you ever...' lots of multiple mums chatting and a few others like you dipping toes in. Just bring some cake or pie and something for the cocktail cabinet. I think we're out of limes...

I have no direct experience of this, but was talking to my neighbour yesterday, who had twins a couple of months ago. She said it wasn't so much that she got hugely bigger than in previous pregnancies, but more that she felt "fuller," i.e. she had a lot of trouble bending down cos there was no room etc. So you might not get hugely bigger than you felt before, but much more uncomfortable. Er...thats not very comforting probably, but you won't explode!

Lots of sympathy, I remember it being very annoying when you get the "you must be about to pop any day soon!" comments when in fact you are months away from giving birth...

On a practical note, if you are getting uncomfortable, do see your hospital's ante-natal physio team because they can give you a fab band for your bump - not like the crappy thin ones you can buy but like an enormous length of surgical stocking that covers the whole thing. I had awful backache (not just from being pg - turns out I have a slipped disc which I hadn't realised at the time so twin pg really aggravated that) and the band really did help give some support.

On the plus side, you do tend to get lots of lovely comments and sympathy from nice people. Small comfort, I know.

Lots of sympathy here too. I was huge with my twins. I had to finished work at 25 weeks as I found it very hard just to get around and was just so tired! I was a size 10 at time and I can remember thinking 'my god, how much bigger can my bump get?!'

I delivered my twins at 38 weeks and you would not believe the size of my bump at that time. Sorry, not being very helpful here just wanted you to know you are not alone

Thanks everyone - good to know that other people have had the same experiences. Just set me off on a really bad footing for the day.

I was so big that my scan guy said I should have a c-sec soon or I would pop any ways
Hang in there and may be get a belly support belt to ease out the back. I would not go outside w/o it in the last month.

I was huge too..for both sets..they were all on the highest centiles for growth scans...but twins don't usually gain a lot of weight towards the end of the pregnancy like singletons do. So it might all slow down by then

I was massive too, but in the end they were 5lb 12 and 6lb 10, so not enormous. They def slowed their growth towards the end.

Poor you, it is like being a whale on little waddly legs! It'll be worth it in the end!!

I know how you feel, but I will say something which I hope is a bit comforting. I'm now 31 weeks, and although I'm definitely still getting bigger, I'm not growing at the speed I was between 20 - 28 weeks so try to not get alarmed (I found that I could see the difference my self every day at about 24 - 26 weeks!) cos it slows down a bit.

However, I am up this late because I can't sleep tonight, so that's the bad side of getting ever bigger. Hang in there and remember the bigger they get, the better it will be for you and them when they are born.

I can sympathize. I was ok til i got to 31 weeks at which point i was the size of a singlton full term (as measured by midwife), then I lost it. Couldnt see how i would manage, But went another 6 weeks!!! Babies were 6lbs & 7lbs, and im only 5 3. So felt enourmous. This is not v helpful is it?! On plus side mine are now 5 and i think having twins is fab.