I haven't had twins myself, but have 2 close friends who have.
Friend 1's boy/girl twins were delivered naturally at 37+4 at 4lb & 4lb 1oz. No time in SCN or NICU, they were sent home at around 4 days, before their mum who contracted an infection.
Friend 2's identicals were born at 32 weeks & she was flown from Dubbo to Sydney to have them. They were 3lb born & were in NICU in Syd for about a week, then SCN in Dubbo til they would've been 38 weeks gestation.
As far as I know, most prems usually remain in hospital til around their due date, depending on how they are going.
My identical girls were born at 37wks5days, 4 days before i was booked for a c-section. They spent a night and day in the nursery as the smaller one couldn't maintain her temp. They were born on a sunday, we went home on the thurs. Twin 1 was 5pound 5 and twin 2 6pound 3. No feeding issues, only issues we have is with the smaller one and thats only because they had TTTS in utero.
Good luck with the next few weeks, it is so not comfortable but in the end it really is worth it. Twins are amazing!!
Hope you manage to keep your twins snuggly inside a wee while longer. I am 5'5" and my twins were born at 38 weeks weighing 6lb 2 and 6lb 12, I went into natural labour and they spent no time in NICU, I was able to take them straight home. Boytwin did spend a couple of weeks in NICU starting at 10 days old, but that was due to an unrelated infection.
My twins were born at 38+4 weeks. I had prem labour at 33 weeks which was successfully stopped, then they refused to come out and I ended up been induced. Had several false alarms and lots of BH contractions up till then though.
I was so big in the last trimester, that i lost my centre of balance and kept falling forward. I was only about 49kg when I fell preg with them, so it put a lot of strain on my body.
They weighed 6lb 6oz and 6lb 9oz when they were born,
They are still tucked up nice and warm although this week I think either or both have dropped into my pelvis as I now have a "little" extra room under my boobs again - although this just makes more kicking room for them.
I have started getting horrendous lower back pain now from them being so low, have my Ob appt this Thursday so will see where things stand re deliver dates etc. I really want to know if my Ob is happy for my to go into labour or for my waters to break before acting or to go ahead with a scheduled c/s but with an earlier date than originally anticipated.
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