Twins or Triplets or more!

HI im 8 weeks pregnant with twins! Non Identical, first pregnancy, lovely surprise! and very exciting :)

Congrats Seagersbaby and welcome .
Just to share my story, I had 2 sacs and 2 placentas so was told non identical as well but we had our twins tested at 18 months and they are ID. There are quite a few families I now know who have also been given wrong info during the pregnancy so if your babies are same sex and look similar it's worth finding out.
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Hibiscus I dropped the day sleeps when we moved them into beds at the end of last year. I'd been forcing days sleeps for ages anyway and even a small nap meant they were a complete nightmare to settle at night. They adjusted really quickly thankfully cos the afternoons were pretty feral with no sleep initially and bedtime is now a much more peaceful and less prolonged affair!

Totally keen to catch up soon. We're free most days in Jan

I don't remenber being cold at all. Quite the opposite, although much later in the pregnancy, I was always feeling warm (didn't want to write hot). So don't know, Seagersbaby, perhaps you feeling cold is unrelated to being pregnant. Could you just be getting a cold?

Thanks Danda!

The day sleeps are starting to get a little easier. I think the heat has a lot to answer for too. We have started swaddling again and this seems to have helped. Plus we bought a fan for their room. They seem to have a decent sleep in the morning and then another at about lunch time. Later in the day though at around 2:30pm-3pm it seems to turn to custard! They don't want to sleep and we end up killing time till we can put them down for the night at about 5:30-6pm at that time they are really grumpy. There is so much to learn eh! I'm amazed at how much sleep they are actually supposed to be getting. I ended up ringing Plunket because i thought surely we can't expect them to sleep 12 hours over night then have naps during the day as well but they said we should still be trying to get them down within the hour to an hour and a half.

Hi Twin Mummies

I have just been for a scan and found out we are pregnant with twins. The only thing is that my hcg hasn't doubled - it went from 2750 to 4900 in two days....I figured it would've more than doubled with twins! Today at the scan (I'm 5 weeks) they could see two sacks but no yolk sack. The scan lady said she would've like to have seen one at this stage. So I'm not feeling very optimistic. Just wondered if anyone else has been through this with twins and come out the other side.

Shells they are GORGEOUS!!!! Loving the pics!!! Yay for sleeping through the night, thats awesome, nice for you to get some decent sleep! Ours sleep after every feed during the day for between 1-3hours, although when it's really hot they wouldn't sleep at all, we were wrapping them and it was too hot but they wouldnt sleep unwrapped. We have just gotten back from our holiday in Oz and it was so hot there - they slept unwrapped straight away and have been ever since which is awesome, now they sleep even on hot days but still need a fan for their room.

Trip to Oz was good, the girls were pretty good on the plane, slept for about an hour in the bassinette so we got to eat and even watch a bit of a movie which was great. They let us take our Mountain Buggy all the way to the gate which was the biggest thing we were worried about, front packs are def a must though when going from gate to plane and plane to baggage pickup.

Congrats on your pregnancies seagersbaby and baby giraffe!! I have 4 month old frat girls - we had two sacs and placentas also and the girls look quite similar so may one day get the test done unless they start looking really different. They say ID twins have the same eye and hair colour and otherwise can have totally different face shapes etc - is this true?It looks as though our girls eyes are starting to change to diff colours.

We had our first scan at 5-6weeks and there was two sacks but one baby was much smaller and we were told at the next scan we would probably only have 1 baby - but next scan there were 2 with great heart beats and the same size. Not sure what seeing no yolk sacs means babygiraffe - did the radiologist (?) say much about it?

Hello,

We are now 20 weeks along and have found out we are having two little boys.

Does anyone have any advice on sleep training? My 2 are 3.5 months old. Is this to early to sleep train? Most of the time they are good sleepers but today is a nightmare! Luckily they sleep well at night but day sleeps are hard. I was blaming the heat but it's not hot today and they are so unsettled. Hearing the crying really gets to me too. I keep going in to re settle them but this just seems to make it worse. They really look exhausted and need to sleep. It's been an hour now. and they are still screaming. Declan was asleep but Ailish eventually woke him up. This is so hard....

Congrats Sarah D!! How exciting :)

Seagersbaby - I found I went through phases of thing - not being able to sleep, needing to pee alot, everything I had tended to last for a while and then get better, by the end as huge and uncomfortable as I was I was sleeping better than I did early on so I hope it gets better for you too :)

Aww Shells hang in there hun!! We have days like that too - lately Ruby has been screaming in the afternoons and it's so hard to calm her down. Our girls tend to get like that when they are overtired, going through a growth spurt, or have had abig day out the day before. I would do as Danda suggested - maybe get him up and do the routine again, or put them in a pushchair and go for a walk? When one of ours gets like that sometimes the only thing that halps is to get them and have them cuddle into you on the couch - usually then crash out straight away. Im not someone who picks my babies up when they cry - I like to let them self settle, but when they get really upset like that and im pulling my hair out I know that will work. I dont do it again the next time in case it starts a habit and they don't usually get upset again so it works well for me. Hope you find something that helps! We use dummies as comforters for ours and wouldnt be without them. Big hugs xo

Our baby girls were born on 6 February 2013 - Jenna Elise born 6lb3oz and Hannah Louise born 5lb9oz at 36.5w by emergency c-section. Both at last scan were head down ready to go and the day I was induced due to pre-e they decided to flip and go breech, unknown to us until I was denied an epi due to low white blood count and had to make a decision to go natural or not, was 5-6cm at the time and we decided to do a quick scan to check all good to go, thank goodness we checked as it could have turned bad very quick. So was very drama filled and with my own blood pressure issues we ended up a total of 14 days in hospital but now home and growing well :)