33 weeks – writing a birth “plan”
There’s not been much to report this week. As I wrote at the end of last week, I’m trying to get the right balance between resting and keeping active. I am getting lots of comments from people I see...
View Article34 weeks – name decisions and rainbows
It’s been another uneventful week really. I have a little spiel prepared for when people ask me how long I’ve got to go, which happens a lot as the bump is so huge! Not that we know exactly how long...
View Article35 weeks – hospital trips
After an uneventful few weeks of plodding on, this week has seen quite a bit of action. No arrival of twins though! Over the weekend I noticed in my home monitoring of blood pressure that it was...
View Article36 weeks – still pregnant!
I wasn’t sure if I’d get to write a post this week. But as it’s Saturday morning and there’s no sign of the twins arriving yet, I thought I’d do a quick post! There’s not that much to report, other...
View Article37 weeks – still pregnant, again!
Well if I wasn’t sure I’d get to write last week’s post, I definitely didn’t think I’d get to write this week’s! We appear to have somehow got to the start of 38 weeks. I feel this is quite an...
View ArticleThe twins’ birth story
As I had written about throughout pregnancy, I was hoping to give birth naturally to the twins. It turned out that this wasn’t meant to be, and I ended up with an elective Caesarean section. However,...
View ArticleBreastfeeding twins – getting off to a good start despite hypoplasia
I’m sat here typing one handed on my phone as I breastfeed a twin. Sometimes I feed them individually, sometimes in tandem with my trusty preloved Peanut and Piglet tandem feeding pillow – it depends...
View ArticleSurviving the fourth trimester with twins
Since the twins turned 3 months last week, we’re just emerging from the fourth trimester. We survived it! And, if I may say so, the babies are not just surviving, they’re thriving. The linguist in me...
View Article6 months of breastfeeding twins
The last time I wrote about breastfeeding the twins, they were 3 weeks old and things had gotten off to a great start. I’m pleased to say that it has continued to go very well for us. We’re now coming...
View ArticleTwin bump in “Take a Break”
A few months ago I was contacted by a freelance journalist via email. She’d seen me comment on a Facebook post with a picture of the twins tandem wrapped when they were a couple of months old, and...
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