Recently, our newsletters have been producing some fabulous stories and tips from our readers. Are you expecting not just one bundle of joy, but two? Well, our readers have some great tips when it comes to dealing with a multiple pregnancy! Feel free to add your own advice as well! And Pregnancy-Info has some great information when it comes to twin pregnancies.
Tell us Your Twin Tips!
Name: Kelli • Due Date: 04/14/2008
I am currently 7 months along with my second set of twins, no fertility treatmnets used lol. I learned alot from my first set. A few suggestions I have for those expecting their first sets are as follows:
1) Sleep when they sleep
2) Accept all help offered
3) find if there is a local multiple support group and use it!!!
4) throw everything out the window you know, when there is more than 1 anything and everything can and will happen.
5) Accept that some days you will feel like the worst mom in the world.
6) dont feel guilty about them having to share you, they dont know it any other way and so they dont feel neglected.
7) You will NEVER look the same again, accept it and enjoy it as a badge of honor
Name: meki • Due Date: 09/02/2008
Hoping for a boy and girl :-) TWINS RULE !
Name: Jackie Ferry • Due Date: 07/30/2008
3 months pregnant with twins
Name: Ashley • Due Date: n/a
I am the mother of 2 sets of twin boys, one year and two days apart! We did not use fertility drugs either time. The boys are now one and a half and two and a half. They keep me very busy. The BEST advice I can offer any one is to sleep as often as you can. I learned the hard way after the first set. I tried to clean, keep up with friends, etc. I was tired all the time and walked around in a daze. I learned with the second set that sleep/rest was more important than a clean house (just the necessities go done). My husband used to fuss at me for refusing help when offered-TAKE HIS ADVICE. Let people help you when they offer. Also, I was always told to feed the babies at the same times. My fraternal twins didn't do this well. One didn't want to eat when his brother got up, resulting in making it hard to get him back to sleep. My identical twins did better at feeding at the same time, but by 3-4 months old, one was refusing to eat when his brother did. Lastly, enjoy the time you have when they are little. Believe me, it seems like the time will never pass, but one day you will look at them and say "You are not babies anymore". Someone once told me with twins "it doesn't get easier, just different!".
Name: Big Momma • Due Date: 12/10/2007
Drink hot chocolate and rub coconut oil into to your stretch marks when the babies are born they won't be there!
Name: Angel • Due Date: n/a
My husband and I were not planning on having any children at all when we found out in Jan of 2002 that I was 8 wks pregnant. All the way until I was almost 5 months we were only expecting 1 baby. Then when I actually got my first ultrasound, they saw 2 heartbeats and 2 babies.
We were blessed w/identical twin girls, born 5 wks early, but healthy as could be.
The VERY BEST advise I EVER got from anyone was: SLEEP WHEN THEY SLEEP.
It is exhausting being a new Mommy, learning as you go, breastfeeding twins, changing double the diapers. etc...everything comes in 2's and it's double the work. It's easy to feel like you need to catch up on housework or prepare dinner etc when the twins are sleeping. DON'T DO IT!
I tried to be the Super MOM/wife and it just didn't work.
My twins were preemie, so I had to wake them every 3 hrs to eat. it would take about 45 min to feed, burp and change 1 twin and then the same thing for the otehr twin. Sothat leaves you w/about an hrs sleep in between. I felt like I was losing my sanity. My husband and I had to try something different. So i started sleeping when they did and OH, WHAT A DIFFERENCE! I still felt tired, but not overwhelmed. I actually felt refreshed when I woke up instead of groggy and like I was moving through a haze.
The 2nd piece of advise I can offer is this: KEEP YOUR TWINS ON THE SAME SCHEDULE.
Schedules are essential, especially when you're dealing w/multiples. :)
It may be twice or triple the work, but it's also twice and triple the BLESSINGS. :) :)
