Our Twin Pregnancy Diary is now a real book!

Twin Pregnancy Diary - out now!

We get a lot of people finding our blog after searching for twin pregnancy information and know that they may not want to read through everything else just to find the diary entries.  

We are pleased to announce that our Twin Pregnancy Diary is now available to buy in paperback, so they don't have to!  Pop on over here to get a 30% discount off the list price.  In a few weeks it will also be available to buy on Amazon as well. 

The Twin Pregnancy Diary is available on Kindle too, and also as an EPUB, which means you can download the Twin Pregnancy Diary eBook to your e-reader, iPad, iPhone, Nook (and lots of other techie things) or even directly onto your PC or Mac, so you can follow our journey any way you want to!

We've also got some more very exciting things to tell you about very soon, so make sure you come back to get the news first!

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Twin Pregnancy Diary - 25 weeks 2 days

25 week twin pregnancy belly photo

Yet another week has passed and I have achieved nothing much in terms of preparing for the twins' arrival.  Their clothes still remain in storage, unwashed and unsorted.  Nothing is ready to be packed for the hospital and there is still plenty to be done organisation wise.  I know it seems that I have ages to go but I'm noticing a week by week decrease in energy levels and I am sure that I need to get things done sooner rather than later, lest they end up not done at all.  You can't really bring babies home with nothing to wear and nothing to sleep in.

On the positive side, I have ordered two new crib mattresses which I found at a reduced price.  Really speaking, only one needed replacing (the one for the second hand crib we bought), but I decided that I'd replace both seeing as the last one given they were in the sale.  We also collected the cot-bed that Mike's cousin kindly gave us and I've ordered two cotton wool pleats for the hospital bag.  Every little thing I do counts, doesn't it?

Hopefully next weekend we'll be able to sort out our bedroom, take down the old cot and replace it with the cot-bed which the twins will share for the first few months.  I still need to get the divider so they can each have one half of it, so I'll shop around for the best price on that this week.  During the next week or so I'll be topping up our cloth nappies, replacing those that are too worn and unusable, and I'll also be ordering the triple height bunk bed.

I had an appointment with the midwife last week.  I'm really not feeling very well connected with her.  She's nice enough but I don't feel as comfortable with her as I have done in the past with previous midwives.  It makes me feel uneasy.  Nevertheless, everything was ok.  Blood pressure was fine, babies sounding good and all in all nothing to worry about.  She now wants to see me every two weeks.

I'm going through a little worry at the moment as I had a fall last night and landed on the left side of my bump. I'm feeling sore and upset still.  I still think I'm able to rush around and obviously am not as light footed as I expect myself to be.  The toy that I tripped over on the way to sorting out an argument didn't help either.  I got the doppler out soon after the fall and heard both heartbeats which was reassuring.  That little machine has provided me with so much reassurance and comfort over the years, I can't begin to describe.  Anyway, I'm still a little sore and getting a bit of pain this morning so not really feeling my best.

As far as the babies are concerned, well they are meant to be measuring approximately 35cm from head to foot and weighing about 660g each.  They are starting to lay down their fat stores now, and I would love to have another 4d scan just to see if they've changed at all from a month ago.  That though, would be greedy and financially unwise, with everything else that we need to pay for first.

If you are a new reader and would like to catch up on this pregnancy diary from the start you can go back to where it begins with the Twin Pregnancy Diary - The First Nine Weeks (Part One). 

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Twin Pregnancy Diary - 22 weeks 5 days

For those of you that were wondering, the days are definitely getting shorter already.  It's still pretty dark at 4.15am whereas a couple of weeks ago it was quite light.  How do I know?  Because my wake-up times have got earlier through no choice of my own but by the vocal talents of my almost ten month old baby. He really needs to get out of this habit fast.

Tuesday was my appointment with the consultant.  I will be having one of these appointments a few days after each scan throughout this pregnancy.  Even though it is considered a consultant's appointment, you normally meet with one of her team of registrars and don't often see the consultant herself.

The concern at last week's scan was not only for the well being and development of the babies but also the need to determine how and where the placentas were lying.  It was necessary to rule out the possibility of either placenta being close to my existing caesarean scar, or attaching itself to it.  The scenario then would not have been good, with the higher risk of an increased bleed during delivery and, possibly, an emergency hysterectomy.  This had been playing on my mind as though I like to know the ifs and buts of likely outcomes we all know what my worrysome nature is like.

Thankfully, both placentas are well out of the way and presenting no risks or problems. Yay for that!  So the two main issues (the health of the babies and the position of the placentas) pose no issues at all and I can relax as much as my overactive imagination will let me.

During the sonogram last Thursday we saw that the babies were bunk-bedding with Twin 1 at the bottom lying with  its head on my right side and feet across at my left.  Twin 2 was in the same position but further up and under my ribs.  They had both moved around from the head down position they were in the Saturday before as we saw at the 4d baby scan.

On Tuesday Twin 1 had moved yet again, back to the head down position with Twin 2 remaining transverse (lying across my belly), making a T-shape between them.  It's funny to think of all that movement and activity going on in there and I'm none the wiser as to all that's going on in secret as I go about my day.  I wasn't feeling as much movement yesterday as I had been.  I tried reassuring myself that it was probably a mixture of the way they were lying plus the fact that I had been busy and probably too preoccupied to be focussing on any movements that were happening.  By 4pm I nipped upstairs for a quick listen in on the doppler, finding two very separate and very different hearts beating away.  I am so thankful to have that little machine!

This week has truly been one of relief and I feel it is another milestone in this pregnancy which we have passed.  The next milestone is the 24 week mark which is the viability milestone - the stage at which a baby if born, could survive with a lot of medical help.  Of course I hope they don't arrive as soon and both stay in there for a good few weeks yet.  The further along they can make it the better it is for them.

If you are a new reader and would like to catch up on this pregnancy diary from the start you can go back to where it begins with the Twin Pregnancy Diary - The First Nine Weeks (Part One). 


If you've caught up, or you've already been following to date you can continue to keep up with our journey by subscribing to a full feed in your reader.

And don't forget, if you'd like to chat with me or keep up to date with all the little stuff in life you can leave a comment after any post or join Larger Family Life on our Facebook page and follow us on Twitter too.

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