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Intro/expecting twins!
Hello, i am new to the community side and would love any advice on expecting twins and how different it will be from our singletons (we have 4). Plus, my youngest is only 1 and will only be 19 months when these babes are born, any suggestions on preparing her? I am due April 30th.
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Re: Intro/expecting twins!
Videos of telling my family and husbands family that we are preggo...with twins!
I will definitely try maybe big sister gift, I am sure she will not really understand, and she probably will not interact much with them.. I just hope it is not a hard transition. She is so spoiled and such a diva being the only girl, and I didn't think we would have any more, let alone two, so she is definitely a bit spoiled.
jquirke9881 - awe, congrats on your twins coming in 4 days...how do I stay sane waiting for the days to pass, lol?
Sounds like we're kind of in the same boat! Our youngest will be 19 months when the boys are born. I'm not planning on any kind of "big sister" gift, as she's really mostly jazzed by things like strawberries and stray pieces of dog food. She has NO idea what's going on, and she'll just wake up one morning to two new babies. She loves babies, but she loves them like a Great Dane like a ham steak...
I'm not really too worried about the "transition." Just another new normal. With our kids already so close in age and having so many, we're pretty much preparing for exhausted chaos for the first 6 months. We do have my MIL here for three months, and if you can find someone to live in to care for your 19mo, I really really recommend it. The physical demands of a multiple pregnancy are really tough. I'm very excited about getting these babies out and feeling normal again! We will have help here until the end of January, and then we'll be on our own. By then I hope to have established some kind of new routine, but I'm assuming it's going to be completely nuts around here for the next two years or so... :-) We just embrace it! Congrats!! If you want an email buddy, my email is wmdcookes@gmail.com
RWmomma - I'll have to take her into the twins room when it's done, not even close to being set up yet. She could care less about changing babies and such, but she does carry her dolls around (albeit, by their feet...). Thank you for the tips!
BananaPancake - My MIL is staying for a while when they come, I'm more worried about jealousy, I also have kids quite close in age, and know this is going to be way harder than when I brought my daughter home with my then 19 month old son. My oldest two will be 8 and 5 when the twins are born, my third will have just turned 3 and my daughter (only girl too, so I worry about that, we do not know the genders of these babies yet) will be maybe 19 months (hopefully, planning on making it to 38 weeks, where she will just have turned 19 months). I definitely think the next two to three years is going to be complete kaos lol. Definitely would love to have an email buddy, I'll send an email tonight so you have my addy (I honestly do not know my gmail addy off the top of my head lol, thankfully it's saved in my phone.