Dear Ten Years Ago Me… Some people might try to tell you that being stubborn is a bad thing, but don’t listen to them. Being stubborn, right now, as you sit in hospital wondering when your twins will be born, is the best possible thing you can be, for your babies and for yourself. Being […]
Things You Should Know About Our Twins
Our girls are about to turn eight, and after 8 years of parenting twins I’ve been asked many an odd question about twins and have learnt a lot about these strange creatures. Here are some answers to some of the common questions we are asked… No, twins do not run in our family. Identical twins […]
Brains and Twins and Things.
I saw Zoe’s brain today… well on a screen anyway. The last time I saw my girls’ brains, on a screen, they were 11 weeks old, or ‘term’ if you are working on corrected age. The time before that, was the day I heard the words “they need to be born now, regardless of the […]
Kids, Cameras and Prem Babies.
This is what happens when you give two seven year olds each a digital camera…. I think they are quite good…. well except the one of my bum. And to think… 7 years ago we’d not even held our 5 day old twins because they were too unstable. This week is National Premmie Week in […]
Seven Years
On this day in 2003 I was 29 weeks pregnant, sitting in a hospital bed, waiting for the second of two nasty steroid injections we hoped would help mature our babies’ lungs. I was bored and uncomfortable and scared, knowing that our twins would be born, for better or for worse, the next day. Today […]
Are They Identical Twins?
I had one of those moments this afternoon. One of those moments that make me want to stab my eyes out with a blunt object…. At the shops with the girls someone asked me ‘The Question’… “Are they twins?” Lets ignore the fact that the girls are now well old enough to be addressed personally […]
I Didn’t Bond with My Babies
I really need to remember, when I can’t get to sleep, watching late night TV is not the best option. Last night I stumbled across the last in a two part series on ABC2 called ‘Help Me Love My Baby‘. I blamed pregnancy hormones as I got all teary watching this mother of twins learning […]
Wordless Wednesday – Fight For Premies.
I blogged for the March of Dimes Fight for Premies awareness day yesterday… and of course I started looking back through photos from when the girls were born. These two photos are of the girls at about 5 days old, … as much as they are not the normal ‘gorgeous baby photos’ and probably freak […]