Shocked to find out I’m having twins

[Anonymous]

Congratulations, OP! Not a twin mom, but an adult twin. I'm very, very close to my twin. Oddly enough, my MIL is a twin and my father was one of two sets of twins in his immediate family.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, congrats! Just curious, did you have previous ultrasounds and just not see two babies until the NT? Or was the NT your first ultrasound?

Op here. I got an ultrasound around 9 weeks at my OBs office, but it was just for dating/size/checking the heartbeat. We only saw one baby!

[Anonymous]

5 sets of twins in our immediate and extended family. No one had a c section. Stop creating stress for the new mom.

[Anonymous]

Get different colored bracelets for them, and paint their big toes different colors in case the bracelets fall off.

Ours are identical triplets, and while having help is great, as babies they were hard to tell apart at first glance.

Accept all help offered from non-smokers and non-crazies and accept that not everything will be done exactly the way you would do it.

[Anonymous]

I was fully expecting to have a csection. I heard twins usually did. When we did the birthing class, both of them were feet down indicating that it would most likely be a c section. I remember hearing instructions for breathing and pushing, but I didn't worry about it too much. Those instructions wouldn't apply to me as the due date got really close, darn it, they both managed to turn themselves around. After my water broke and I was at the hospital, I'm frantically asking my husband to google how to breathe during labor. I had forgotten to look it up earlier Both were delivered vaginally.

You never know with twin pregnancies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Start saving for a night nanny even a couple nights per week. Give yourself the gift of sanity.

Yes! We used a Postpartum Doula 7 nights when we first got home and then 3-4 nights a week for 8 weeks! Life changing!

Could not agree more, we had a PostPartum Doula through Balanced Bellies and she was so helpful not just with the newborns but Postpartum care also, I successfully breastfed my twins for a year and I owe the support of our doula for that, I would not have been able to without the support and knowledge that I simply did not have and was too occupied to research myself.