Hello mums and dads of multiples :)
Please feel free to introduce yourself and your twins or more, maybe also describing the hardest part about being a parent to a multiple as well as the best part! Enjoy!
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Hello mums and dads of multiples :)
Please feel free to introduce yourself and your twins or more, maybe also describing the hardest part about being a parent to a multiple as well as the best part! Enjoy!
Catch up with your previous thread HERE.
Name: Trish (Baby~amore`)
Location: Sydney
Conceived:IVF
Gestation: 35wks4days
Names & Ages: Samuel & Joel -born 1st July 2006 (almost 7 months)
Notes: (e.g. bioamniotic etc) -Fraternal, C/S - breech boys early due to Obstetic cholestasis.
Im sarah mother of identical twin girls Chanel Tailah (5pound 4oz) & Hannah Louise (4pound 9oz) born 31/3/05, concieved naturally, delivered naturally at 36 + 6 weeks gestation 5hr labour, no tearing, no stitches. i have no history of twins in ither side of our familys. I live in northern suburbs South Aust. love to chat to other twin mummies
Peace and quiet for the moment! YAY! Although I should be doing housework-nah bugger that.
Name. Jean (Motherduck)
Location. Sothwest WA
Conceived. natural fraturnal boy/girl twins
Gestation. 33 weeks 4days
Names & ages Jack & Jessica 26th Oct 06
Notes. Double breach birth Jack 5lb 5oz Jessica 4lb 13oz
Nods head in agreement :D:
Peace and quiet for the moment! YAY! Although I should be doing housework-nah bugger that.
Name. Tam
Location. Melbourne
Conceived. IVF fraturnal boy/girl twins
Gestation. 36 weeks 4days
Names & ages Declan & Rylee - 2/01/06
Notes. Emerg c/s as Rylee went into distress after 12 hours of labour and 9 cm dialated with Declan almost crowning
Name. Christine (chriscoop)
Location. Pakenham VIC
Conceived. Artificial Insemination fraternal boy/girl twins
Gestation. 34weeks 6days
Names & ages Sarah & Samuel born 13th of april 2006
Notes. c/s
Do you all find that when you tell people you have twins they always ask "was it natural or IVF?" I think it's a very personal question. Mine were natural but those of you through IVF do you get offended or am I just being over-sensitive?
I agree people seem to think they can ask personal q's. the other one is " on which side of the family has twins" and they never believe you when you say neither,
I'm glad it's not just me. But I guess when you are pregnant with twins everyone is intrigued and then when you have them they are more intrigued as to how you cope. I tell them it's not a bad thing, I'm extremely lucky. My cousin's wife yesterday said to me "I was going to say it when you were pregnant but decided not to, how the hell will you/are you coping with two? One is so hard." Either I have great babies, am very organised or don't know any different but I'm not finding it 'so hard'. It's nice to hear from people that I am doing so well etc. But I think every mother is a wonderful person who deserves an award. We just do everything twice. LOL.
i Think when you find out your pregnant with twin it is very overwhelming but you have a while to try and prepare youself. I dont think you ever can really prepare yourself but being a twins mummy i think only the special, organised mummies have twins because we will learn to cope with them. they are hard but you learn to cope. were super mums
Ohh I agree. I get asked all sorts of personal questions, usually by little old ladies on pension day.
My fave is "Are you breastfeeding them"? I can just imagine their little old minds boggling at the thought!
Also agree that you are never REALLY prepared for twins! Just one day at a time over here!
Why is it that old people are facinated by twins? They stalk me at shopping centres.
I used to find them the worst at shopping centres, they would stand directly in front of the pram so you had to stop. UGH
Name: Karla
Location: Brisbane
Conceived: Natural Fraternal Boy/Girl
Gestation: 38w 2d
Names: Alexander & Daria, born 26 Sep 2006
Notes: Vaginal delivery
I totally agree with shopping centres. Everybody wants to look, ask how old they are, any twins in the family, & so on. I just want to get the shopping done!
It's lovely that they are interested but sometimes you are in a rush and they are the 100th person and you don't want to be rude but you have to ignore them otherwise you'll be out longer than you wanted and they'll be due for a feed, then your out even longer!!
Someone told me one day " I prefer that you have twins and not me" and I answered "So do I". And now if someone says 'double trouble' to me, I say 'double the fun' and that's it.
The best hing Ive come up with if I want to get in and done quick...( as if ) while out shopping is I put one in the snuggle on my front then carry the other one in my arm and the 2yo by the hand, untill i get a trolly if people see you comming they tend to look in the trolly seat but, by the time they relise you have twins your already gone on your merry way.
It is nice to be stopped sometimes but It gets a bit much when all you hear is boy youve got your hands full.... every time I hear it I always Know Im blessed not cursed
Great idea. Thank you.:
Hey girls, the twins did the cutest thing today! They were lying on the floor rolling around, & Daria's head was at Alexander's feet & vice versa, when they decided that they wanted to suck something.
I looked at them & they were sucking on each others toes! I wasn't in time to get a photo, but it's the funniest thing I've seen in a long time!:D
oh how cute. karla how old are you twins, gender, etc
How time flies! Gemma and Teagan are 4mths old, I just can't believe it. It really doesn't feel like that long ago that I was in hospital and they were so tiny! They are both almost rolling, they get so frustrated when they are stuck on their side. LOL.
Last night was quite entertaining, at about 2.30am they decided to have a conversation with each other. I'm not sure what was so important to talk about but they were having a great time. DH was not so impressed as he has to work.
How's things going with you Sarah?
hi briohny im good the twins will be two soon and boy are they pushing the limits. chanel refuses to take her shoes off she wears them all day and night and i cant get them off her having a bath is such a fight. I dont wanna argue with her anymore. but apart from that theyre great. how r u gorgeous angels
PMSL. Oh I can't wait to go through those sorts of things! How quick does time fly? They are doing so well, sleeping better and amazing me every day. Although today they are doing my head in not wanting to sleep and just grizzle. They do love a chat with each other though. Do you find that Chanel and Hannah talk to each other in a special language that only they understand? I know Gemma and Teagan are only 4mths old but it's like they know what they are talking about, it is so sweet and beautiful.
I have their Christening next weekend which I am looking forward to, although I cannot imagine where all of the gifts are going to go, they are going to be spoilt as usual-but then again I can see some people being tightasses and only buying one gift. I know that may sound greedy but I wont be impressed with anyone who does that, but what can you do?
Karlo - they sound so cute.Sam & Joel seem to talk more too as well as squeal at each other.
most people bought two gifts for our two except for gift voucher and a few things like a large photoframe 3 spaces for photos - two heart shaped and another rectangular one- and our hands/feet mould etc.
We got lots of silver money boxes (soem duplicates) and other shaped boots / VW LOL -but not filled with money.
The boys also got lots of lovely books and people gave them one/2 each and wrote their names in them too.
Some clothes ... gorgeous soft puppies(teddies) ... can't remember what else.
Trish they sound like lovely gifts and what you said were shared one's were great ideas and I don't mind that at all. I just don't want them to ever miss out because people thing they are one person, they are two little individuals that look the same and share the same birthday.
I knew what you meant - like having two birthday cakes (though we had only one christening one),sing two happy birthday songs ... though who do you sing first ?
The twins are one of each flavour, and are 5 months & 3 days old. They are really starting to notice each other now (hence the toe sucking!), and they talk to each other as well.
Trish, I did read that they recommend having two b'day cakes and I'm fine with that. Were you thinking of doing that for Sam & Joel? Who to sing Happy Birthday to first, my justification would be Gemma as she came out first and alphabetically she is first, then maybe the next year do the opposite?? I'm making a cup cake tree for the Christening with G & T on top of the cakes. Although my attempts at making the cakes last night were a disaster. Looked like a pile of gew! Then I realised this morning I used Icing sugar instead of castor sugar, LOL! That's why I did a practise run. They still tasted nice.
briohny yeah the twins do talk in their own little language even though theyre nearly 2 and should be talking properly now the talk some weird twins lingo to each other and i cant understand a bloody thing. twins have their own little world that only they know whats going on. And we have no idea
Gee Briohny, I laughed when I read about your cupcakes.:) How many did you have to eat?
Karla,
There should have been 7 cup cakes in total. I read in a magazine to put them into flat bottom ice cream cones so they look like ice cream-yeah mine looked like melted ice cream. PMSL. I ate some of them, gave hubby some in his work lunch bag-I bet he didn't eat them 'cos he wouldn't have wanted to show them out of embarrassment. LOL. All you can do is laugh! I will make another attempt today, I have the right sugar. My mothers group tomorrow will be my taste testers. I'll let you know how take 2 goes.
I was at the supermarket today and there was this other lady who had twins about the same age as mine and she totally snobbed me. I love talking to other parents with twins, get some tips and we just understand each other. She was probably having a crappy day, and I know I was getting sick of being a walking show, but I would never snob another Mum, especially with twins!
Have any of you lovely ladies had your twins hiccuping at the same time? DH & I were laughing at our 2, as one would hiccup, then the other, & then back to the first one.
I love having twins, they do the funniest stuff!:)
Question for you all - since there is a chance we'll have twins with IVF, as they're going to implant 2 embys.
If you had to have a c/s, would you chose to have them as close to midnight so you could maybe have one on either day, so they don't share birthdays? It is just something that has been running around in my head, I know if we do carry twins, they'll be fraternal, I'd also just like to give them a bit more "individuality" by having different birthdays.
Schaz, I think that having them on different days would be confusing for them I personally would never consider it but hey, its up to you. Jack and Charlee are as individual as you can get. But knowing that they share a birthday is so so special. They play and chatter in baby language to each other. They are boy/ girl so not identical but as individual as they are they are twins and that is something I wouldn't want to take from them IYKWIM???? Its pretty special being twins, growning up best friends. I think a shared birthday would be the icing on the cake! Pardon the pun!
thanks for that - I never thought of it that way. Just that kids at school who were twins used to hate that they never had anything of their own, everything was shared with their brother/sister. I had 3 sets of twins in my prep, grade 1 & 2 classes in Sydney and we only had 15-18 in the class.