September 11, 2012 Thirdtimelucky77 is blessed by the arrival of our twins

It has taken me a few days to get around to writing this post, but I am thrilled, excited and honored to finally announce the healthy and safe arrival of our beautiful identical twin girls: L ily G race L ennee and
R uby R ose V alerie.

The girls managed to hold on for a c- section delivery on Tuesday September 11, 2012 at exactly 34 weeks.

L ily - came first at 9.04am weighing 1.88kg followed by R uby less than a minute later at 9.05am weighing 1.68kg. Mummy was incredibly lucky to have cuddles with both prior to them being taken with Daddy down to the SCN.

Massive thanks to our amazing family's, BB friends, friends IRL and our incredible medical team who we could not have made it without and who we owe the health of our darling girls to.

Congratulations and welcome earthside to your two gorgeous babies. I hope their stay in SCN is brief and problem free and you get them home soon xx

OHHHHHHHHH how wonderful... they're here safe and sound.... huge congratulations to you all. I adore their names!!! welcome to the world to two very special little girls.

Much love to you and your family xxx

Congrats and lovely names! Hope your girls are growing stronger every day xx

What beautiful news :D A massive congrats TTL!! May your precious girls' lives be blessed and full of good health and happiness.

Congratulations. I hope they have a short stay at SCN. What beautiful names your bubbas have been given too.

Congratulations on the arrival of your Baby Girls!!!

Wishing them a speedy time in SCN and wishing you a gorgeous babymoon and beyond

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Huge congrats again hun :hug:

The biggest congratulations hunni to you, your DP and 2 very proud big brothers :leap:! Welcome to the world little ladies, your mummy has been waiting patiently for you both :). Well done darling, and enjoy your little princesses. Beautiful names too :) xoxoxo

Congratulations TTL! Beautiful news, so glad to hear your sweet little ladies are safely earthside :D

Congratulations!

Congratulations on your beautiful girls :)

Welcome to the world L ily and R uby :)

:leap: Congratulations! Brilliant weights, and their names are adorable! :)

Congratulations! Wow they are excellent weights! May they grow quickly and be home soon!

I know I've said it a million times but congratulations darling!!!! They are just beautiful!!! Xxx

Huge congrats huni xxx

Congratulations! I hope they're out of SCN and home with ou all very soon!

Congrats! Welcome little ladies :)

Congratulations!

congrats!!! welcome Earthside Lily and Ruby!!

Wonderful news, congratulations!

Congratulations xx Hope they are home with you soon.

Welcome earthside to your sweet little girls :cheer:. Congratulations on their birth :hug:

Congratulations!!
Hope they are home with you ASAP!

Congratulations again hun! What beautiful names for two beautiful little girls. Hope to continue sharing this journey with you as our babies grow up. Take care and praying for a speedy recovery for you and short hospital stay for the babes xx

Congratulations. Welcome to the world precious girls.

xox

Woohoooooo! Welcome to the world little princesses. Congratulations TTL, I am so happy and proud of you. What a journey these bubbies have given you. Hope your stay in SC nursery is short - we had about 3 weeks for similar weights, and it is hard and horrible at times but they will be home with you in no time.

Welcome to the wonderful (and crazy) world of being a twin mumma xx

Congrats TTL!!! Beautiful names for your gorgeous little girls. Glad they are doing well and I hope you have them home soon. Xxx

Congrats on the arrival of your 2 little princesses :) and well done on cooking them for so long.

Thank you so much everyone for your gorgeous messages!

A quick update - the girls are doing amazingly well at 6 days old today they have been transferred to the lowest level of seriousness room in the SCN :) They are breathing on their own and have started bottle feeds today - alternating with tube feeds because they get tired.

They are ready to be transferred to our local private hospital - which is way quicker than I expected! I am still in hospital with them and on the flip side - my recovery from the c-section has taken longer than I expected, but I am happy to be able to walk to the nursery finally by myself - so I can go to the girls now whenever I want!

They are more identical with every day that passes and without being biased - they are cute as:) Unbelievably tiny, but perfectly formed and with full heads of hair and wide open blue eyes. I don't know what I expected - but we are blessed that everything has turned out so much better, than we were warned it could have.

A special thank you to my Belly Buddies and also all the ladies that have listened, answered my often silly questions, reassured me, supported me when reassurance wasn't possible and generally just been fantastic! Before I started LTTTC and then IVF I had no idea paces like BB existed - the best part of the whole process was finding BB and in the process a safe place to 'land'.

Finally - I would really like to post a pic of my Lily and Ruby here - can anyone help me with how to do this?

Xx

Congratulations on the arrival of your beautiful twin girls! How wonderful! xxx

Congrats and welcome to your two baby girls :D Beautiful names.

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Finally - I would really like to post a pic of my Lily and Ruby here - can anyone help me with how to do this?

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I'm not sure how to upload to BB directly. I use photobucket, then copy & paste the link they provide. I can never remember which one it is though, so I usually try several different ones before I get it right lol!

TTL- congratualtions hun, what an amazing mumma you are to get them to 34 weeks!
They sound very cute- enjoy them!
( don't know about the piccies sorry)

congratulations on the birth of your baby girls!! i hope they are doing well & can be home with you soon xxx

Hi All,

Well the time has come - after mother crafting for the last two nights in hospital - where they hand you the twins and leave you too it - tomorrow we will be going home!

Tuesday they will be four weeks old - so coming home at 37+6 gestation after being born at 33+6 gestation. Our pad has told us not to adjust their age because full term for identicals is 37.5.

Lily is now 2.35kg and Ruby 2.15kg - I'm scared to be taking them home, but also happy, scared all the normal emotions I guess. Most of all I fel sad i will never be pregnant again, this is it. I ended up with 4, more than the 3 I was expecting and I am soooooooo grateful - but I am sad as well.

I have good days and bad, some days I just need a good cry - others a good sleep:)

Hope everyone else is well.

X

How wonderful they are coming home TTL!!! Great news :loveshower:

Congratulations and well done! It's fabulous that they're coming home so quickly. You're doing a fabulous job.

OH wow, that's wonderful news! It must feel quite surreal to be taking your little girls home :hug: And you will be fine, before long you'll be saying you don't even know why you thought you wouldn't be fine :)