Congratulations Shell. Glad to hear that they are both great sizes and you managed to have your vaginal delivery.
Just wanted to update and let you know that I have had my twins 7 weeks early. Just got home tonight. Am pretty exhausted still, so dont have time to update with all the details.
Basically-Started labouring on Sat 25 oct, was given tablets to stop the labour, didnt work, went into full labour at 5:30am Sun 26 oct was 4cm by 7am and bubs were delivered by c/s at 9:30am. Gabriel Ronan first, weighing 5lb 12oz and then Tallulah Autumn weighing 4lb 11oz. So great sizes. They are still in SCN and I have spilled heaps of tears the last week and more so today at leaving them in hospital but we are all well.
Helen & Shell I am new to this thread and dont know you well or the history but CONGRATS on the arrival of your lil babies....so glad all 4 babies are here safely - twin pregnancy is so scary ( well if you read too much!!) but nothing we cant handle any way they come huh! Well done ladies - :-) Much love
NZTwinMummy - Welcome to the thread and thanks for the congrats.
Helen - Wow our babies arrived so close together. I hope that you are coping emotionally, any idea on how long your babies will be in SCN?
Sending you all the strength you need to get through and I hope that you have your babies at home with you in no time at all.
The weights were great for the gestation - you definately did a great job.
Keep in touch and let me know if there is anything I can do - not sure what that would be, but the offer is still there.
Weird kind of question here I know but just thought I might ask!! A friend of mine has just found out that she is having twins!! (Exciting I know!!) she eats a lots of Soy and Tofu being a Vegetarian but we wondered if this might be the reason behind conceiving them.
We've both been having a look further into this and have come up with some research suggesting that Soy acts like Clomid in stimulating the ovaries... is this true do you think!!? Has anyone else a vegetarian or soy eating who has conceived twins??
Helen - Awww. you poor thing. Those early months are tough. I would say it is normal for bubs to be doing a 5 hour stretch or so by about 6 weeks. But your little ones were pretty early - maybe you'll find they start to settle for longer when they reach 6 weeks corrected age?
If you are really struggling and things aren't getting better - talk to your community health nurse or your GP - most states have some great residential stay clinics where you can go for a week and get help (covered by medicare) some of them will let your babies cry a lot - some won't - depends where you go. Anyway, twin mums tend to be given priority on waiting lists so don't forget to reach out for the help that is there if you need it.
leeloo - I have heard something before about soy and hormones etc. Was a long time ago so can't remember the details of what I read... and I guess if she has no family history of twins then there could be something in it for her! There's a lot of factors that give you a greater chance of having twins though - maternal age is a big one. Also possibly taking folate can increase your chance of twins (since as many as 1 in 8 pregnancies begin as twins and one twin 'vanishes' in early weeks (mostly undetected - you wouldn't know it unless you'd had a very early scan) - it's thought that taking folate can prevent some of these vanishing twin cases. There's plenty of others too... As for me - no soy here! Just a big fat fluke.
But if any of you have any thoughts!! 
For you.
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