wow! last time I popped into the twins forum, things were moving pretty slowly. It's so busy in here now!!

Congratulations - lots of new twins on the way, I see. Don't let any of the scary stories get to you - twins are fabulous! Lots of hard work of course - but well worth it. I always say having twins makes me feel sorry for all the babies who AREN'T twins and don't have a little friend to play with all the time. My girls have just turned 1 and they play and chatter together all day which is so cute (of course, they also fight and bite each other when competing for my attention - not so cute!).

Just thought I would add my 2 cents on the feeding pillows - I really recommend trying out a pregnancy body pillow as your breastfeeding pillow before buying an expensive feeding pillow. I bought the inflatable ez2nurse and hated it - used it once and ended up giving it to a friend. I used my pregnancy body pillow and just wrapped it around me. Much cheaper than a feeding pillow and just as good!

Also, be careful with expressing all the time and following strict routines like contented house with twins whilst breastfeeding. You'll find those kind of strict routines are not really recommended by Australian breastfeeding association in the early days as they interfere with building up sufficient milk supply. Plus, if you're expressing a lot unnecessarily, you may be causing yourself breastfeeding problems with overactive milk letdown that babies can't handle or mastitis because you're producing too much milk.

I am still breastfeeding my girls and can honestly say I haven't used my breast pump ONCE since they were born. Some people who experience problems will find pumping is a good tool but for others it isn't necessary. So just be wary of those strict routines...

ooh - and even if you have TWO placentas, your babies could still be identical. about 20% of Di/di twins are actually identical (mine were - we have the DNA test to prove it!)

sorry to slam my advice here and run but one of my twins is waking up and needs a cuddle so I have to go.

Good luck to all of you. Being a mummy to twins is awesome!!