birth

My cathartic one year post(s), Part 4 – “Afterwards” from Joanna79 ^Pro 341 days old

Nearly a year on, I can’t really remember what the early days with the girls were like. I can recall moments and moods and bits of Christmas 2007 but ...

My cathartic one year post(s), Part 3 – the birth from Joanna79 ^Pro 341 days old

[ ... ] the birth came to see me, checked the position of the babies (Grace – twin 1 was breech and Ruth – twin 2 was head down), checked my ‘shaving’ ...

Our birth story from Joanna79 ^Pro 467 days old

I wrote this elsewhere but realised that I hadn’t added my birth story to my blog, so here it is: It was decided at my 35 week check up that I would ...

Revisiting the books on multiple birth, Part 1 from Joanna79 ^Pro 484 days old

[ ... ] and birth. However, aside from a fairly short chapter on the ‘fourth trimester’, the first year with twins isn’t covered in any great detail ...

Oh the things they never tell you (about twins)! Part 2 - Birth and afterwards from Joanna79 ^Pro 497 days old

[ ... ] at the time. 8. Poo. Yours and your baby’s. The amount of detailed conversations you’ll have with medical professionals about it after the birth.

A tribute to A, O and S from Joanna79 ^Pro 586 days old

A very good friend of mine gave birth to twin boys today. My friend (A) went in for routine monitoring this morning and it was discovered that O (Twin ...

The Christening thing – can open, worms everywhere… from Joanna79 ^Pro 609 days old

[ ... ] the birth of a child other than a religious ceremony that most of the attendees don’t believe in. You can have a Humanist naming ceremony, ...

It could have been a lot worse from Joanna79 ^Pro 649 days old

[ ... ] gave birth early (in some cases frighteningly early) and have been through nightmares that I can’t even begin to imagine involving ICU, SCBU, ...

"Are there twins in your family?" and other loaded questions from Joanna79 ^Pro 662 days old

One of the many interesting aspects of having twins is that you get a taste of what it must be like to be famous. Towards the end of my pregnancy my ...

My stomach looks like Jabba the Hutt's backside - body image and birth from Joanna79 ^Pro 663 days old

I gave birth to twins by c-section six weeks ago at 39 weeks. Before anyone starts with the too posh to push nonsense, the girls were transverse (lying ...