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I have been very naughty and have not done my blog for what I thought was a few weeks and turns out to be 2 months!! Times has gone so so quickly, the boys are now 13 weeks old and I am loving every minute with them, they are brilliant. They are just at the age now where they have started laughing at me and best of all when you sit them opposite each other they laugh at each other which is really cute! Isabella is being a brilliant big sister she really loves them and is always loving towards them. She does get a bit jealous sometimes and says I am not getting any cuddles which is of course not true! We do get stopped by people all the time which is nice but can be time consuming, for example when you are in a supermarket and you know you have limited time before a baby starts crying, yet everyone talks to you about twins, so you want to be polite but you want to go as well!! The usual things people say are...oh double trouble you've got your hands full...are they identical to which Isabella rolls her eyes and says why do people ask if they are idenkital!! ...do twins run in the family (yes I am a twin) ...bet you don't get any sleep... etc etc!


I can't believe people can't tell the difference between them as Percy is fair with piercing blue eyes and Roscoe is olive complexion with dark hair and dark brown eyes and they are facially very different too.

We are still demand feeding which is fine, often they do feed around the same time, however Roscoe usually has couple of extra bottles than Percy. If I am out I have to feed them in their double buggy side by side, if I am at home I sit on the sofa and lie one either side of me, If I am at a playgroup I sit on the floor with them lying either side of me. Next week I am taking the 3 of them away on my own to visit my parents so I shall share the experience of taking them away on my own next week! (Hopefully I won't be too harrassed!)

I have been very naughty and havae not done my blog for what I thought was a few weeks and turns out to be 2 months!!  Times has gone so so quickly, the boys are now 13 weeks old and I am loving every minute with them they are brilliant.  They are just at the age now where they have started laughing at me and best of all when you sit them opposite each other they laugh at each other which is really really cute!  Isabella is being a brilliant big sister she really loves them and is always loving towards them.  She does get a bit jealous sometimes and says I am not getting any cuddles which is ofcourse not true!  We do get stopped by people all the time which is nice but can be time consuming, for example when you are in a supermarket and you know you have limited time before a baby starts crying yet everyone talks to you about twins so you want to be polite but you want to go aswell!!  The usual things people say are...oh double trouble you've got your hands full...are they identical to which Isabella rolls her eyes and says why do people ask if they are idenkital!!  ...do twins run in the family (yes I am a twin) ...bet you don't get any sleep... etc etc! 

I can't believe people can't tell the difference between them as Percy is fair with piercing blue eyes and Roscoe is olive complexion with dark hair and dark brown eyes and they are facially very different too.

We are still demand feeding which is fine, often they do feed around the same time, however Roscoe usually has couple of extra bottles than Percy. If I am out I have to feed them in their double buggy side by side, if I am at home I sit on the sofa and lie one either side of me, If I am at a playgroup I sit on the floor with them lying either side of me.   Next week I am taking the 3 of them away on my own to visit my parents so I shall share the experience of taking them away on my own next week! (Hopefully I wont be too harrassed!)

 

To continue the story from last week...  After the recovery room I went to the ward.  The ward in hospital had 4 other people in it and has to be the noisest place on earth! You can hear everyone else and you are also closest to the nurses station so you can hear everything in outside aswell.  I'm not going to say much about my hospital experience as some of it was positive and some negative.  Some of the staff were outstanding however I found they were really busy so sometimes Roscoe was going 5 1/2 hours without a feed as I needed help to try and breast feed.  Percy just looked like he was never ever going to feed so I was expressing and syringe feeding whilst trying to get the boys to breastfeed.  In the first 3 days I counted I had 50 minutes sleep!  I just wanted to go home as Isabella was struggling with me being away, I wasn't getting any sleep and it is just so much more comfortable at home.  After 2 nights I came home.  If I had been in a side room I would have stayed longer to try and establish breastfeeding however I felt it was really crowded and I could get more help at home by having Roger there especially through the night.

It was nice to be home however then I was faced with a catelogue of disasters which I will write about in my next blog!  Needless to say in the end after all our disasters, I had to give up trying to breastfeed as I never seemed to have time to even express.  I would be just about to and some well meaning visitor would come round which meant that I would miss yet another feed so in the end with much regret I had to put the boys onto the bottle with formula as I was getting engorged and never having time to try them at the breast.

 

The Twins have arrived!!

Last week I had the twins everything went smoothly.  I got to the hospital at 7.45am as planned and was in the operating theatre at 8.45.  It is quite wierd walking into the operating theatre knowing what is about to happen. I had a drink which made me feel woozy and then they started doing my spinal block.  There were 15 people in the room but to be honest I couldn't really see many of them as I was laid down behind a big screen.  I didn't realise they had started and it was a good half and hour before the first baby was born, I felt a massive physical relief when he came out and we heard a little cry and then both Roger and I started to cry.  2 minutes later the next baby was born..  I had a lot of scar tissue to remove and make into 1 scar so the whole operation took 2 hours.  I held each baby in the operating theatre and then I was taken to recovery.  The first twin weighed 5lb and 14 and the second twin weighed 6lb 1 1/2.  Both are beautiful and I'm completely in love with them I will update the next part of the story in another blog!  Their names in no particular order are Percy and Roscoe they look very different to me although most people can't tell!  Here are some photos of when they had just been born...

 

Today I am 37 weeks pregnant, so I am so pleased to have got this far.  On Friday I had a scan and everything is o.k both babies are about 6lb now so I am not too worried.  I feel massive now and it is really hard to sleep.  I have to sleep on my side but the babies are stretching round the side now so even that is hard now as it feels like I am lying on them.  I think I am going to have to re check my hospital bag as it was so long ago now that I did it I can't remember what is in it.

This weekend is our last weekend the 3 of us, as my parents are coming down next weekend to begin looking after Isabella.  We just went for a walk on the beach and saw 3 seals which was lovely.  Then it started raining, so we nipped into the local Garden centre where they have a Santa's Grotto.  It occurred to me that a simple trip like that which is so much fun for your children suddenly gets really expensive with 3.  It goes from £5 to £15.  Then I started thinking about any day out and it gets quite scary!  Last night we went for an early dinner just the 3 of us which was lovely as I think it will be a long time before we get to do things like that again!

This Tuesday I go to Truro, to meet my anaethesist and do paperwork before my c section, then I have to go Penzance to see the consultant in the afternoon which seems a lot of running around to me for one day, luckily Roger has taken a day off to come with me and I have put Isabella into nursery for the day so it shouldn't be too bad. Then after those appointments that's it till I have them!

 

Last week, I thought Isabella might have appendicitis.  She ended up in hospital for 2 days and a night poor little thing.  I think children are so amazing even though they are ill and she had a drip attached to her, she was such a good girl.  The hospital were amazing all the staff were so good with her.  It isn't easy treating a 3 year old and they pitched how they treated her and spoke to her perfectly.  As a parent you get a little fold down bed next to your child's which is good so you can be with them all the time.  Isabella kept wanting me to get in to her bed and give her a cuddle which was quite difficult 8 months pregnant with twins...I had my bottom poking out of the bed so my bump was supported!!!  The good news in the end was that she got better and it wasn't appendicitis afterall, so all good.

This week I saw my midwife for the last time.  I am 35 weeks now, but next week  I have a scan, then the week after I have my booking in appointment the week before my c section and a consultants appointment (all on the same day in different hospitals!), and then I am having them the week after.

I went through the birth plan with my midwife.  To be honest there are not too many choices to make when it is a planned c section.  I can only have 1 person there but I would only want my husband to be with me anyway.  We have chosen that yes the boys will have the vitamin K injection, and that if I can hold them for a little bit straight after that would be great.  I would like skin to skin contact as soon as possible with them to encourage breast feeding.  In the event that one or both of the boys needs to go to special care then Roger is to stay with the babies.  He doesn't want to cut the umbilical cord, and I don't blame him I'm not sure I would want to.  That is it really, the only plan is to see how it goes and to be led by the babies to see what they are like as little people!

I've been ready for so long now that I think I am in denial that in 2 1/2 weeks I'll be having them!  The only other topial thing which has happened this week is that after much thought I had my swine flu jab.  I wasn't sure whether to as I don't like taking things when I am pregnant, but after talking to my friend who is a senior midwife I decided the last thing I needed so close to having the boys is swine flu so I risked it and had it!