Parents of Multiples!

[efaith]

well I have an induction date if nothing happens spontaneously first - 27th July. Not long at all!! They obstetrician and midwife laughed at the idea of me making it that far though, they think I'm one hearty laugh or sneeze away from things kicking off at the moment! Things are looking good for a natural birth so that's all great. I am however as emotional as I was when I first found out I was carrying 2 babies, it's felt all theoretical up to this point, now it is feeling more real by the day everything makes me want to cry!!!

[Upsydaisy]

How exciting for you, having not long to go now. Let us know how you get on - I commented your post in another thread about pumps also.

Also congratulations gremlinsmummy

[efaith]

my beautiful girls were born on july 13th at 34 weeks gestation. I went into labour spontaneously and managed a vaginal birth with both my big kids in attendance. It was really special, particularly as the girls were rushed away to SCBU where my big kids couldn't see them. We spent a week of me travelling back and forth between hospital and home and they were discharged yesterday! they made amazing progress in such a short time and despite being prem were fully breastfeeding after only a few days. Im so proud of them!!

[Kitten]

I'm not a parent of multiples, but would like to offer my congratulations! That must have been an amazing experience. Wonderful that they are home, doing well and took to breastfeeding right away.

[Upsydaisy]

Aww congratulations to you and your family. Two wee girls, what bundles of joy they will be and how special that your older children were there also.

Now when you go out every trip will take much longer as people will be constantly stopping you and admiring them. Newborn twins are a real people magnet especially to older ladies.

I posted in your other thread also it sounds like everything is coming together for you.

[efaith]

I just have to say how much I am loving my girls!!! They are gaining weight beautifully, it's no longer always in the back of my mind to worry if they are using calories by being cold or crying or being held or mucked around with too often. They are starting to be more alert and to have awake times rather than just feeding and sleeping. And they're so beautiful!!! I just love newborns and 2 at once is so special! I think I had prepared myself well for it to be a long exhausting circus and it's so much more manageable than I imagined. Am trying to post a picture but I have to resize it with my baby brain - it might take a while!!!

[Upsydaisy]

Lovely to hear that you are all doing well efaith, my two are 2 yrs and 4 months now the newborn stage seems so long ago.

What is funny to me now is that looking back I can see that their temperament was there right from day 1. They are so different. Yes take lots of photos they change so fast.

[efaith]

am feeling the need to reach out to other parents of multiples who don't enforce a strict routine, who don't see babies waking at night as a 'sleep problem' that needs to be solved, who don't have formula on standby 'just in case'... also sensitive mums who understand why there are times I am having to make some compromises with the way I would be doing things with only one baby (in particular my response time to crying!!!) and the guilt I feel about it... it's a funny feeling of being caught between worlds. Any twin (or more!) mums still using this forum???

[Upsydaisy]

efaith I havent looked at this forum for ages as very little is posted here. I didn't know anything about natural parenting until my two were well over one. We didn't have much routine or rather they each had there own I attempted to align them into a routine but it just didn't work I thought I was a bit of a failure as all other twin mums I met seemed to have a very structured routine. When they were 9 mths and down to two naps finally they were having a sleep at the same time I got a bit more sleep - hang in there.

I hope all is going a bit better for you now anyway, the stages they go through change so much!

[efaith]

Thanks for your reply, I think I'm out of the last hard stage and into the next one!! I lament the inactivity here, i don't like using facebook - i know too many people there!!! it feels very unprivate to me, especially when i might be seen to be criticising the parenting practices of most of the people i am friends with!!! my days with my girls are just lovely, they are such happy babies, happy to nap, happy to chill out and explore their world etc, it's just bedtimes right now that are a struggle. At least bedtimes where no one cries! We're getting there, I just have to decide to just do my best. My husband has just injured himself and has his leg in a cast for the next couple of months which makes things tough, all sympathy to him but not what I needed in my life right now!!!