What a week its been, I have the biggest feet I have actually ever seen, I actually cut my widest pair of shoes in order to be able to squeeze my elephant feet in plus I also am cutting the top of my socks. I can hardly walk and I spend as much time as possible in my bed, the couch or the bath tub. My husband has become my personal slave, which I am actually really enjoying! I am also abusing my 3 year old son to pick up anything I accidently drop (I blame the numb fingers) plus he is now perfectly trained in taking my socks and shoes off. But fair enough, I am 34 weeks pregnant with twins!!! They should give me a gold medal, bring me flowers every day and bow when I walk past 
The scan didnt go that well, I thought it did until the twin consultant popped his head in, looked at the growth discordance of 38% and decided to bring the c-section forwards by a week… I really didnt see that coming! Twin 1 is now 3lbs 2ozs (1425g) with a PI of 1.21; twin 2 is 5lbs 1ozs (2299g) with a PI of 0.95
So the new birth day is going to be 16th of March – I feel robbed by a week… I still have so much to sort out, boxes of clothes that need to be sorted, unfinished little jobs on the PC, still no music on my iphone, need to go to dentist and a million other things which of course I could have done in another week (who am I kidding?)
Next week I will be having two scans to check amniotic fluids and PI & CTG, one on Monday and one on Friday, plus I will be having a steroid injection on Friday and will be prepped for the section.Its all happening now… how surreal. But it feels right, I think my body has reached its limits and as the little girls growth has slowed down and they will both be at a good gestation, I am not worried. If anything I am excited!! I dont think you actually really believe you are going to have twins until you see them!
I cant wait to meet my two little girls! I am aware that its very likely for at least one of them to be going into NICU or SCBU so I have really been concentrating on gathering as much info as possible on breatfeeding prem babies, one book I found particularly helpful, it was kindly posted to my by Barbare the leader of la leche group Okehampton, a mother of twins herself:
“Mothering Multiples – Breastfeeding & Caring for twins or more” by Karen Kerkhoff Gromada
This book is great, just what I need now, very practical advice on how to successfully breatfeed when one or both twins are in special care and not ready to be breastfed yet.
Extreme Motherhood – The triplet diaries was such a fun read, makes you appreciate expecting twins rather than triplets
