Twins!!!

janedee

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I’m both thrilled and terrified as our daughter just told us she’s expecting identical twin boys in the early spring. I’m mostly worried for her as she’s only 5’ 2 and while this is her second pregnancy, she will be an older mom. She also has a pretty physical job and works full time. Needless to say, we’re just a wee bit stressed and she and her hubby are definitely a bit overwhelmed!
Just wondering if there are any others out there with twin experiences that they wouldn’t mind sharing.
 
Oh my gosh, how exciting! And I'm sure a bit terrifying!
I don't have any twin experience but I'm wishing her all the best!
 
I don’t have any experience with twins but I hope it all goes well! Congratulations times two!
 
oh, this is absolutely amazing and terrifying, for sure!! I wish the best pregnancy for your daughter!
 
Double the congratulations! Saying prayers for calm vibes for all of you. :) At least with the little one they already have, they have some help with diaper delivery! :giggle And having a toddler on hand for goofy entertainment purposes can be awesome too!
 
Wow - congrats! It will be fine, they'll adjust to the situation. We always do. Think: double blessings.

I really shouldn't to tell you the story of a friend of mine, who was expecting twins. Just a couple of weeks before the kids were born, they went for a check-up ultrasound ... and they "found" a third baby in there. Somehow they had missed that it was triplets during the entire pregnancy.
 
Congratulations - double the blessing.
No advice from me either - I only had singletons.
 
Congratulations double up! No advice here either, I got my two oldest girls 16 months apart and that was hard so I can guess they need extra hands.
 
Congratulations - how exciting!! I have fraternal twin boys that will turn 16 in a couple of weeks. I was 30 years old when I had them and had no other children at the time. I am 5'4 and weighed 115 pounds when I got pregnant with them. I really had to focus on gaining weight early in my pregnancy since twins tend to be born early and the doctors wanted them to be as big as possible as soon as possible. Other than morning sickness for the first trimester and having to eat way more than I was used to in order to gain weight, my pregnancy was a breeze! Twins are considered full term at 38 weeks. Thankfully, I made it to 38 weeks and had to be induced. My boys were both born vaginally 14 minutes apart - one weighed 6 pounds and the other weighed 6 pounds 7 ounces. They were healthy and had high Apgar scores so were able to take them home from the hospital 27 hours after they were born.

The first few months were HARD. Even though many people offered, my husband and I wanted to do everything ourselves without any help, so it was just the two of us with our boys for the first 4 weeks and then it was just me and our boys until I went back to work when they were 12 weeks old. They didn’t sleep through the night until they were 6 months old and that was really rough! After they started sleeping through the night and my husband and I were able to sleep through the night again, things were SO much easier!

One of my boys did have torticollis and had to go to physical therapy and wear a helmet for 4 months when he was 6 months old. He was Baby A and the doctor said that his torticollis was a result of the position his head was in during the last couple weeks of my pregnancy.

Twins are so much fun! When my boys were babies, I just loved listening to them babble back and forth to each other, stare at each other, play with each other, cuddle with each other, etc. It has been amazing watching them grow up together. I absolutely adore their relationship and witnessing it makes me sad that their little sister doesn’t have a twin to go through life with!

I know it is easier said than done, but right now my advice to your daughter is to prioritize herself and take really good care of herself! I got pregnant with my boys on our third attempt at IVF so I made it my mission to take extra, extra, extra good care of myself and I think it definitely paid off! Good luck to your daughter! If you have any questions, please let me know. I am more than happy to help!
 
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Thank you so much Janelle! Its so good to hear of another mom's experience. So glad to hear your boys were full term and a good weight. Thanks so much for your advice and offer.


Congratulations - how exciting!! I have fraternal twin boys that will turn 16 in a couple of weeks. I was 30 years old when I had them and had no other children at the time. I am 5'4 and weighed 115 pounds when I got pregnant with them. I really had to focus on gaining weight early in my pregnancy since twins tend to be born early and the doctors wanted them to be as big as possible as soon as possible.

I know it is easier said than done, but right now my advice to your daughter is to prioritize herself and take really good care of herself! I got pregnant with my boys on our third attempt at IVF so I made it my mission to take extra, extra, extra good care of myself and I think it definitely paid off! Good luck to your daughter! If you have any questions, please let me know. I am more than happy to help!
 
You are so welcome! One other thing that I forgot to say was that I was really surprised by how much attention twins generate in public. When my boys were babies, we couldn't go anywhere without getting stopped by strangers wanting to see them and/or ask about them. I have a sister that has boy/girl twins and she experienced the same thing!
 
I'm a twin! Probably not much help. Haha. But I have a twin brother. My mom didn't know she was having twins until we were born - what a surprise! My mom did have her Aunt come and stay with her for the first 6 weeks or so for an extra set of hands. My dad worked a lot. I think once we got a little older my mom said it was nice because we always had someone to play with. We entertained each other and she said we even had our own little language.

Today you'd never even guess that we were siblings. I'm short and small. He's tall and bulky! And we don't really look alike.
 
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