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Question for those who have had singleton PG and twin PG?
How do the two compare - is the twin PG tougher? I've always wondered and people always ask me but this is my first pregnancy. Just curious!
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Re: Question for those who have had singleton PG and twin PG?
I went through both a singleton pregnancy and then a triplet pregnancy back to back. Triplets, not twins but that pregnancy was the hardest thing I've ever been through. Definitely much harder than a singleton.
I have known women who have only had twins and they say it wasn't "that bad" - they don't have the singleton to compare to.
Well...let's see. With the twins I was working from home part time at 28 weeks then full time at 32 weeks. I think that made all the difference for me. I didn't have to commute or sit at my desk all day. I could take short naps when I needed to. I can imagine that if I had been going in to the office all that time my experience would have been a lot different. I didn't have any morning sickness at all but sciatic nerve pain kicked in around 15 weeks and stayed with me until the end. The only problem I had with sleeping was hip pain. I tossed from side to side a lot b/c the hip I was lying on would ache.
This go round I was nauseous but never actually got sick. The sciatic nerve thing started around 17 weeks and I have been hanging on to either a cold or rhinitis of pregnany for about a month now. I feel like my sleep has been more disrupted by this congestion/sore throat thing than by the hip pain last time! I started working from home again last Friday - this time b/c of some cramping and pink tinged discharge I had last week. My OB said I have been doing too much (having two year old twins, starting potty training and working full time - really?) and she wants me to rest more. Since it wasn't going to happen after work (!) she made it so I can rest more during the day - LOVE her!
I have to say I have been pretty lucky in the pregnancy department. I'm not a miserable pregnant woman and don't (knock wood) have a lot of complications. The biggest difference I have noticed is the amount of time I had to devote to getting ready for the twins. I searched websites and shopped in stores looking for the perfect cribs, accessories, etc. This go round I just don't have the time! I feel kind of bad about that - like this baby is being short changed already - but I'm pretty sure it happens with second/third babies a lot. At least that's what I like to tell myself.
My twins are 5! My baby is 3!
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My singleton pregnancy was easy-breezy. I stayed active all the way up to my due date. Only at my 39th week did I start having a little back pain and swollen feet. I gained 20 pounds and lost it quickly after giving birth.
My twin pregnancy was much different. To begin with, the nausea was unbearable. I couldn't move off my bed (with a pillow over my head) for 10 weeks. I finally got a prescription medication so I could start teaching in September. The second trimester went pretty smoothly. By 28 weeks, I was on modified bedrest, because I started blacking out (the first time that happened was while I was driving), and I had a lot of pressure on my lower back. By 35 weeks I was on full bedrest, and needed help walking from the couch to the bathroom, and even those 10 steps would put me in labor! Thank God I made it all the way to 38 weeks
DD is 19 months, and I am 9 weeks pregnant with twins. I have to say, so far, I am way more tired than I was with DD. I can barely function during the day. Also, with DD, I was nauseated and didn't eat much from weeks 6-12. With this pregnancy, I get nauseauos if I DON'T eat, and I am eating like a horse. My preganancy with DD was very smooth and I had minimal discomfort, but I am preparing myself for these little ones to give me a heck of a ride!
my twin pg has been harder so far than my singleton pg... but also, working full time, being pg and having a toddler at home makes things harder, too
i have been sicker (more m/s), had more migraines, and more tired.
My singleton pg was just about the easiest a pregnancy could be. No morning sickness, no sciatica, no hip or RL pain, no complications, and pretty easy L&D.... all reasons why we figured, what the heck, and got pg again pretty quickly. This time, it hasn't been as tough as I thought it could be, but I was nauseous (no vomiting) until 14 weeks, much more tired, and now have some sciatic and back pain.
My OB is also treating me very differently. He took me out of work at 22 weeks (I was standing/walking all day), I am on partial bedrest now, lots more appointments, NSTs, U/Ss, etc, and we are bettting on a c-section. I do have some risk factors (DD had a neo-natal stroke, I have been diagnosed with MTHFR, and the boys share a placenta), thus all the precautions.
They were night and day! I worked up until the day before I went into labor as a teacher with my singleton. At 38 weeks I was finally ready to have him and week 39 was rough. I had very little morning sickness, very little anything really.
My twin pregnancy was hard from the moment I got pregnant. I had twice the sickness, twice the tiredness, twice the hunger, twice the swelling...well, you get the idea.
I was so looking forward to being pregnant again and now I don't think I ever want to be again. It was worth it, of course, but gosh it was hard.
This is me. I only had mild m/s and am still going strong/lots of energy/working full time at 26 weeks. I've just started having RLP and BH contractions, pretty mild so far. No headaches, no heartburn, and, thanks to my maternity support belt, no back pain thus far. If a singleton pregnancy is easier than this, then I'd love to experience that as well - we'd like to try for a 3rd child in the future if circumstances permit.