Just a Day in the Life of a Mom with Twins

Four weeks postpartum and I'm feeling pretty good. Thought I would just share some thoughts I had about pregnancy and then life as a new mom. Let's start with the WORST parts of pregnancy. You carry around a watermelon EVERYWHERE Sex with a watermelon isn't easy Need to go to the bathroom every 2 hours (sometimes more often) Stretch marks and discolorations Morning Sickness Feet Swelling Hormones Pregnancy brain (forgetfulness) Can't roll over or bend over Round ligament pain People touch your belly (I HATED this one) The last trimester is just uncomfortable all around Babies get hiccups Hemorrhoids The BEST parts of pregnancy It's the best secret ever until you're ready to tell people Feeling the babies move around Carrying life is something truly special People are often extra nice to you I loved watching my belly grow and documenting it with the weekly pictures You get to buy baby clothes!! I loved preparing the nursery and...

Multiples have always been a topic of interest for most people. When they are seen they are ohh'ed and ahh'ed over. If people get a chance there's always a few questions they love to ask. So here you go... Frequently Asked Questions about my Twins and their answers. Are they twins? Yes. Are they Identical? No. They are fraternal, meaning they came from two separate eggs fertilized by two separate sperm, aka they look different. Are they natural? Well this isn't artificial twinning here. Which one is older? Georgia by a minute if that's important to you. Do twins run in the family? This question is always hard for me to answer because the short answer is yes, my husband is a twin. The real answer is he doesn't play any part in whether or not we have twins. Every woman in the world has a chance at having identical twins. It's a matter and chance of an already fertilized egg splitting. For fraternal twins, the mother has to release two eggs at the same ...

My girls are just about four weeks old now and everywhere we go people like to look at them and ask questions. Me, being a new mom, can talk about them all day long. I enjoy it. However I must say when people tell me "oh I have two kids under two so it's a lot like having twins" or "my kids are only 10 months apart, I know exactly what you're going through" I want to scream and say NO YOU DO NOT! Now, please don't get me wrong, motherhood in general is HARD. Every child and every family circumstance has it's own unique difficulties (feel free to tell me them, I like to know I'm not alone here) but if you want to see a twin mom's blood boil, tell her your situation is just like having twins because that statement, and those like it, are simply not true. And I'll tell you why! First, because there was a time when you had ONLY ONE. You were pregnant with only one at a time, you brought one home from the hospital, you devoted all your ti...

It's finally here, the long awaited twin birth story!! I've been getting a lot of questions about their birth these last few weeks and so I'm excited to finally share their story with you. Many have asked why we had a c-section when we were scheduled for an induction, did the doctors force me to do it because they're twins, and could I just not handle the labor?? Your questions will now be answered.  First Picture as a Family of Four Birth Story As many of you know the doctors recommended that we schedule an induction date at 38 weeks with our twins. This is because the risk of death increases the longer they are in the womb, running out of space. I know plenty of twin moms who went natural, 40 weeks or over and their twins are perfectly happy and healthy. Props to you moms. However with how long it took us to get pregnant and WHAT it took to get pregnant I didn't want to risk anything I could control with my twins. It's the same with the pregnancies...