Twin Stuff
Here’s some of the “interesting” facts about being pregnant with twins that have impacted my life:
- With one baby, we were undecided about whether to find out gender. However, we decided, once the twins appeared on the ultrasound, to be “finder-outers” because it made me feel less overwhelmed with how to prepare for them. (BTW – we both want 2 boys…though we won’t be disappointed with 2 healthy babies of any gender!)
- I eat about every 2 hours: breakfast, morning snack, lunch, afternoon snack (sometimes twice), dinner, bedtime snack. I haven’t been hungry in weeks (this is good), and I’ve only been full about 2-3 times in that span of time.
- I find myself holding off doing too much prep until after my next doctor’s appointment, partly from a little bit of concern that there won’t be good news (not that this is likely) and partly because I’m still worn out by about 2:00 in the afternoon. Maybe one of these days I’ll have enough gumption to actually start looking at stuff.
- Eric told his coworkers this week, one of whom had twins in December (about 6-7 weeks early). She was very excited, and we may find ourselves with a good bit of advice, donations, and general help from her. That will be nice!
- Speaking of Eric, can I just tell you all what a fabulous man I married. From the day we found out, he has been helpful, encouraging, and incredibly protective. He’s not overbearing (not his style), but he makes sure I get what I need and regularly checks in with me. And he’s so cute to watch when someone comes to talk about it at church or elsewhere…he’s just so proud and smiling. Love that guy!
- I spend most of every afternoon sitting on the couch with my feet up on a pillow. Yesterday, I went to WalMart and Target (I spent less than 10 minutes here), but by the time I got home I knew I had pushed a bit too far somehow. I still don’t have a good sense for how much is too much and how soon I’ll get there.
- I’ve been doing a lot of good reading about twins stuff. It’s been very helpful since my doctor’s office, while not unhelpful, is not overtly proactive unless I’m in the office with them. While I’ve had no problems and no questions to ask, I realized this week how hard it’s been to basically be on my own for the last four weeks, guessing about whether I’m doing the right things or not, without any feedback from those who know. I’ve decided to wait and see how my next appointment goes before I get too concerned, though.
Okay, so those are pretty random, but they’re all I’ve got today. Since I wore out so early, I spent much of the day sitting. I’m just glad it’s summer, so I have that luxury. And I currently have no plans for today. We shall see what I come up with!
Happy Wednesday!
Thanks for sharing all the twin stuff, man it would be hard work growing twins, it’s hard enough growing one!
Our friends had twins last year – two boys.
We are going to be ‘finder-outerers’ too.
Can’t wait to hear the genders! Are you feeling better in general? Isn’t it time for another tummy picture soon?!
Can’t wait to hear what your little ones will be! Maybe you will have one of each! 🙂
^^ Ooh, that’s a good point about the bond! That’s the only reason I’m disappointed we had a boy this time around – I really wanted Kayla to have a close sister! ^^
I’m not sure what you’re expecting your doctor’s office to help you with. Most see you for the appointment, but it’s up to you how you take care of yourself outside of their office. Just so you don’t think your doctor’s office isn’t very good.
As you know our Sunday school class has a lot of twins — 6 sets. We have 2 of each pairing: 2 sets of girls, 2 sets of boys, and 2 sets of one of each. So it could be anything!! I’m a little partial to girls myself. I just think if you’re going to have twins, girls are the way to go. Girls share bonds better than boys. I just don’t think boy twins would be as close as girl twins!
Shannah, you don’t love any of those names^? I can’t believe it!!
@gsowell – Our grandfathers’ names: Ralph Gordon, Denver Delroy, Hubert Leon, Carlos Eugene.
No…we won’t be naming our children after our grandfathers!
@gsowell – I know I’ve shared this before but we had our names pretty early. We had one boy name and one girl name we loved and then the 2nd names for if we had 2 boys or 2 girls, we didn’t love as much (girls would have been Hayley Nicole and Hilary ??can’t remember and am so glad we didn’t have 2 girls!–2 boys were going to be Justin Scott and Jeremiah Erik– I wasn’t a fan of Jeremiah, Mike picked it!) I loved Hayley and knew they were my last and my mom was so ticked. She didn’t like the name at all. She wanted Jessica. I love the name Jessica but I just knew I wanted a Hayley. There were about 8 of us pregnant from church at the same time and only 3 girls were born and the other 2 were both Jessica. And grandfathers names were Jerry and Floyd. Great grandfathers were Lloyd, Ray, Harold and Cloral. No thank you!
@shannahhogue – everyone I know has 2 girls too. My cousin’s wife had twin boys about 4 mos after me.
@gsowell – For example, we decided NOT to a name a boy after our paternal grandfathers. The result would have been Ralph Alfa.
@shannahhogue – Just for the record, it’s easier to come up with names you HATE than names you both love. If you don’t share the keepers, could you at least share a few that get voted down?
@faithchick – All my friends (9-10 have had babies in the last 2 years) love the big sales, and the Twins one is a favorite. There is an active chapter in Columbus, so I may need to look into it.
@gsowell – We’ll probably share genders, but I don’t know about names…we haven’t really discussed it yet. Nor have we discussed actual names (though I have a few favorites already!).
I’ve never lived anywhere where they had an active Mother of Twins Club. Boo.
Have you started on a list of names yet? Are you going to share them when you decide, or will you be evil like my sister and keep us all in suspense?
hey! this means you can join the mothers of twins club! you know what that means? (i’m pretty sure they do this in columbus, too) it means you can go to the annual clothing sale the night before and shop before all of the other crazy mothers (like me & missy) come the next day.
@tonialynn59 – I don’t know the stats either…but I do know that most of the people I know had 2 girls or one of each! Hopefully, I can buck the trend!
@ch1pch0p – Thankfully, the library had a couple of great books (better than the free one the doctor’s office gave me!)
@bethelaine – I’m not sure when we’ll be able to find out gender. I doubt we’ll know for another month or two.
When I was in labor with my twins, my dr. (who had been up all night 2 nights in a row and was kinda funny!) was throwing all these facts out at me. Back in 88 when mine were born you didn’t find out what they were. Not sure if the stats have changed since then but he said that most twin pregancies were 2 boys, then 2 girls and then one of each. I had one of each. When I was in labor, everyone in there were taking bets on what they were but most everyone agreed that they were one of each due to the differences in their heartbeats and they were right.
i love reading all of these bits about your pregnancy! thanks for sharing! how much longer until you can find out the genders?
Yeah, I can see how with twins, you’d want to know a little more. It seems you’d want to be as prepared as possible!