[winniejo]

Originally Posted by rubylola

congratulations, wow how exciting!

I have twins, 3 year old girls now, and they are the BEST THING EVER. I t is actually quite easy to start with, a bit of a production line: 2 nappies, 2 bottles, bathing 2 etc etc. Line them up and do them both. It is once they start to exert some personality that it gets a bit more demanding...

...but with your older child and your experience in parenting you will be a master in all those diversionary tactics when the time comes, and will know how to keep them all entertained at once.

Congratulations- there is no joy on earth like seeing one of your little twins take the other ones hand, or give the other a cuddle. You have given your babies their own little best friend to grow up with.

PM me if you have any twins questions, I will help if I can

that's so sweet. thanks guys, you're making me feel better already.

i wondered about that too, if they both wake up at the same time and are both hungry. angie jolie-pitt said in people mag she's getting good at breast feeding both at the same time! YIKES! i can't imagine!

[twochubbycheeks]

awwww!!! How exciting!!!! Congrats to you and hope you have a happy, healthy pregnancy.

Here's a thread that you might be interested in reading: =)

Come in, let's chat about our multiples

[carvedwords]

How exciting! I have twin cousins and it was so fun watching them grow up. It's all about keeping them on a schedule.

[hlchen]

Congratulations!

[kcf68]

Congrats Congrats!

[Sternchen]

Oohhh, what a blessing!! Congratulations

[Izznit]

TWINS!

I'm a twin!

We're a HANDFUL, and it is hard to be equal. Then again, I guess it was a wee bit easier, because I'm a fraternal, so there's no sharing of clothes and dressing alike!

Congrats!!!

[addicted2chanel]

First of all CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Secondly, by the time your babies are born, your DD will be a little bit older Not much, but just enough to help you from losing your sanity too quickly!! hehe.
I always thought I wanted twins, but when I hear of all the complications, the risks, it makes me worried! Even though my Grandma has twins at nearly full term (37 weeks) and had no problems whatsoever it still makes me nervous because twins run in my family
Again, congratulations!!!

[winniejo]

yes, my doc already said plan on them coming early. and my daughter was a c section so the twins will be too. not looking forward to that again.

[rubylola]

Originally Posted by shopdoc

Silly question but I have always wondered about this. How did you feed them when they were newborns? Did they both wake up at once and start crying for food or where they on different feeding schedules?

The funny thing about my twins as babies, and I think this is common in twins, was that one could be lying in bed crying loudly, and the other one would sleep on beside them, oblivious to the noise. I don't think they are easily disturbed by their sibling, being so used to being together.

They were both on the same schedule, but the one who exhibited hunger first would generally be fed first.

If they were both in real need of a feed I would prop them up in those baby rocker seats and kneeling between them hold a bottle out for each of them to feed from (I was bottle feeding them by day 5). DH had a great way of laying them both on his lap to feed them at the same time but I never mastered it.

The BIG mistake I made, looking back, was to wait until each baby woke up at night to feed them. For about 3 months I was getting up every 1 and half hours to feed one, then the other one 1 and a half hours later (one took bigger feeds and went longer at night without a feed). I realised eventually that if I fed the one that had woken up, then fed the other one straight after that I might get several hours of unbroken sleep until the next feed. That made a big difference.

[rubylola]

Originally Posted by winniejo

i wondered about that too, if they both wake up at the same time and are both hungry. angie jolie-pitt said in people mag she's getting good at breast feeding both at the same time! YIKES! i can't imagine!

Yeah- big respect to her for breast feeding them!

Apparently two can be breast fed at once, one under each arm. Otherwise, if they are being fed one at a time, newborn twins can take 16 hours a day to be breast fed (8 hours each ).

A good book I read was Double Trouble (Emma Mahony), she was a twin who had twins and it is a great basic guide for the first year of having twins.

Oh, something I forgot to mention about feeding the girls at first was that I wrote down how much each had at every feed. Very quickly I realised that 10 minutes after I had fed them I had no idea of how much milk each had had, and who still had to have more. If one had nothing and the other had a full feed I wouldn't have been able to tell you which was which. Three feeds into the day and this information was one big blur in my head. So I wrote it down so that i knew how both were feeding each day.

[rubylola]

Originally Posted by carvedwords

How exciting! I have twin cousins and it was so fun watching them grow up. It's all about keeping them on a schedule.

Totally agree about the schedule thing

At first I tried to do Gina Ford, but it was too rigid to get the girls into the routine. Then I read the Baby Whisperer and she has a method called EASY:
The baby Eats, then has a bit of Activity, then it Sleeps, at which point it is Your time (yay!). This works for twins too. I started this with the girls and very quickly they had put themselves into an easily managed routine of meals, naps and bedtime that greatly resembled Gina Ford's, without being pushed into it.

[dell]

I am due in 2 weeks with my first little girl. SH has his appt for a vasectomy on Wed, so she will be the only one... We always said that we didn't want kiddos, and she is going to be here only because she is supposed to, but I ALWAYS said that if I ever did have a baby that I would want TWINS! Congrats! You are SOOO lucky! It will be a little more difficult, but so worth it!!

[rubylola]

Originally Posted by winniejo

yes, my doc already said plan on them coming early. and my daughter was a c section so the twins will be too. not looking forward to that again.

Was your daughter an emergency c section? An emergency c section is totally different from an elective (planned) one. An emergency is the worst of both worlds- a bad labour, followed by an unplanned operation. An elective section, which your twins will be, is really straightforward in comparison. I had one and had no pain whatsoever and a swift recovery.

[winniejo]

Originally Posted by rubylola

Was your daughter an emergency c section? An emergency c section is totally different from an elective (planned) one. An emergency is the worst of both worlds- a bad labour, followed by an unplanned operation. An elective section, which your twins will be, is really straightforward in comparison. I had one and had no pain whatsoever and a swift recovery.

great! she wasn't what i would call an emergency but it was not scheduled. it was something that happen that day. my labor wasn't progressing and the doctor could tell she wasn't coming down the "tunnel." and i had a fever that was slowly increasing. i think around 3pm the doctor knew what we were going to have to do. he let me go a couple more hours and didn't make me push more than 3 times over those few hours. by about 5:30 it was decided to go with the c section and she was born at 7:25.