multiple births

Nursery newbies from Joanna79 ^Pro 170 days old

The girls started their new nursery on Monday. They did a couple of sessions of settling-in last week and have done two full days this week - Monday ...

One of those moments... from Joanna79 ^Pro 207 days old

A normal bath time. R and G sitting in the bath, facing each other and splashing about. G started singing 'Ro ro ro ro' and R grabbed her hands. Dh and ...

Two years ago today... from Joanna79 ^Pro 222 days old

I peed on a stick and changed our lives. Little did I know that a little miracle has happened inside me and two tiny clusters of cells had divided and ...

A singleton? Pah, easy! from Joanna79 ^Pro 261 days old

Before I start getting nasty comments, I know that one baby is hard. It's just that being a fully paid up member of the Twaffia gives me a different ...

The results are in... from Joanna79 ^Pro 302 days old

R and G are identical. Absolutely, completely and utterly. The test is 99.99996368% accurate, which is pretty irrefutable in my book. The zygosity ...

DNA testing, testing 1, 2, 3, 4, 5....10 swabs from Joanna79 ^Pro 334 days old

So, the swabs have been taken and the DNA tests on the girls have been sent off for analysis. The testing kit was very simple. Each child had a labelled ...

The zygosity game – for two or more babies. from Joanna79 ^Pro 341 days old

We’re so fed-up with fielding the ‘are they identical?’ question that we’ve decided to find out whether the girls are non-identical or not. I have requested ...

My cathartic one year post(s), Part 4 – “Afterwards” from Joanna79 ^Pro 347 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 347 days old

We had to be at the hospital by 7am on Wednesday 12 December 2007 and originally my op was scheduled for 10.30 but there was an emergency section at ...

My cathartic one year post(s), Part 2 – pregnancy reflections from Joanna79 ^Pro 347 days old

I started feeling really tired towards the end of April 2007,. I used to get home from work, flop on the sofa and just about managed to keep my eyes ...