Your stories

• Don’t worry about rushing to do it – some of the books seem to say that the older the child/children is/are, the easier it is.
• Think about where you will keep the potties. Lots of bathrooms/toilets aren’t big enough for two potties and they will need to use them at the same time.

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It was with a fair amount of trepidation that we embarked on this stage of the child rearing process. When the babies were first born, it seemed so time consuming to be changing nappies what felt like every five minutes, but within a few weeks, we were doing it with one hand, whilst cooking tea and feeding a baby with the other. So I had every intention of keeping the boys in nappies for as long as possible. The boys unfortunately had other ideas. (more…)

21st August: Had 12 week scan today. Was really nervous. Terrified there would be something wrong [as had had a miscarriage a few months previously]. M could see the screen and could see immediately that it was twins…he said it was just full of babies! As soon as they saw it was twins everything stepped up a gear. We were shown to the consultant who explained that they are identical and so I will be getting much more care. Scan every 2 weeks and see the consultant each time… We are both still gob smacked. Suddenly the pregnancy is progressing in a very different way than we thought. (more…)

By Liz Smith

Post Natal Depression (PND) is more of a common condition than you think. It’s very different from the Baby Blues; before the birth of Sophie and Louis I was visited by the Heath Visitors and given all the information about how to spot the signs, helpline numbers and not to be afraid to talk to them if I felt I was suffering PND. I was feeling positive about the birth and didn’t think I’d be affected. (more…)

By Alex Agombar

I’ve always been keen on camping. From campsites to wild camping, from back gardens to (one time) the middle of a roundabout, I’ve spent many happy nights under canvas. So it never crossed my mind that we wouldn’t take the twins camping. That was before they were born of course. (more…)

My husband and I used to love holidaying in the sun before our twin girls arrived, but the thought of travelling abroad for the first time with them was fairly daunting. However the lure of the sun was too much and we first braved foreign shores as a family when the girls were 4 months old. (more…)

I keep a picture of son when he was a week old on my desk at work.

It shocks most people.

This is because he is a tiny, skinny little fellow, in a pristine incubator, with a ventilation tube in his mouth and tape on his cheeks keeping it in place, he has an oxygen saturation monitor on his arm, a canula on his other arm, a tube in his belly button and numerous monitor leads stuck to his tiny chest. He is lying on his side, with his eyes tightly closed in a frown.
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by Vicki Black
January 1st 2002 12.15am Sat up past midnight with James, my husband. My two elder daughters, Charlotte, nearly 8 & Bethany, 6 & a half are staying at my parents for the night, so that my Mum can celebrate the New Year with a drink! 37.5 weeks pregnant with twins, still no sign of them arriving. (more…)

by Sarah Royle

I read all the books. And I mean ALL the books. They said that the average twin is smaller than the average singleton baby. And they said that babies of vegan mothers tend to be smaller than babies of non-vegan mothers (they didn’t say why). So as a vegan carrying twins I was worried. I decided that my mission for the next few months was to grow babies. Big babies. And I decided that the only way I could do this was to rest and eat. And nothing else. So that’s what I did. (more…)

by Ruth Dowsett

I became pregnant with twins after my 3 rd IVF attempt. I had no problem with the pregnancy other then getting bigger and bigger. I put on 5 stone. I left work due to my size, 16 weeks before EDC. I also had problems with sleeping. (more…)