Go Real Nappy Blog - Lucy Clough, Week 3

I seem to have missed week 26 as I had that well known pregnancy symptom of writers block!! Week 27 have been recovering from a stomach bug, at first I was having stomach cramps and thought I'd gone into early labour but thank goodness it was actually a bug now I just feel really weak so a bit of resting and I should be ok. This is quite difficult whilst looking after a 3 year old so I am currently making playdoh peas whilst writing this blog! I've had to book Isabella into nursery this afternoon so I can have a bit of a rest to recover.

So today I am 28 weeks, Lazy and wriggles seem to have swapped roles. Lazy is now always moving and wriggles seems quieter. We have completely finished their bedroom now which is really cute. Isabella and I painted a train on the wall to match their quilts. The health visitor came round last week and gave me two red books one for each of them. I have just finished reading a book about how to bring up twins. The only thing I would like to do as the book suggests but can't is give them seperate rooms. At first when they are babies I am thinking it might be more convenient to have them in the same place instead of running up and down the stairs between the two. As a twin myself I agree with a lot that the book says. I feel quite prepared that hopefully I will understand what it is like to be a twin.

Although my parents never called us 'the twins', they did things that I would do differently. For example every spelling test, exam result, report etc was done publicly at the dinner table at the end of the day. I intend to do this very privately with each child as the way it was done with us caused so many problems between myself and my twin.. One thing I never thought to do is not tell them which one was born first. I think I made my brother's life a misery saying I am 2 minutes older than you I am the oldest, I go first etc! So now I am going to think about this and whether I can get away with saying they were born at the same time!!

I have a consultants appointment tomorrow and I am hoping to get more information about the birth, as so far everything has been a bit vague. I also have to have a glucose tolerance test (to test for gestational diabetes) this week which is apparantly standard proceedure at 28 weeks with twins. So hopefully I'll be able to have more information to think about concerning the birth.