New mommy-to-be expecting B/B soon!

Spent some time reading through a few of the topics and decided to finally join and share in everyone's joy of motherhood and soon-to-be motherhood. I'm 31 weeks today with fraternal boys, Caleb Joshua and Jacob David. So far all is well, boys are almost 4lbs each and growing/moving CONSTANTLY! :good: Hope all is well with everyone else and their families as well as healthy pregnancies. Talk to everyone soon.

 

Congrats and welcome to the board. I look forward to talking to you

 

Congrats on your twin boys! I love the names you have picked out.. Welcome to the boards!!

 

Glad you decided to de-lurk :lol: :welcome: to TS.

 

:wavey: Welcome to TS! Congratulations on your pregnancy!

 

Congrats! And Welcome to TS! So I'm curious how do you know you are having fraternal boys? My di/di (two placentas and two sacs) boys ended up being identical. We had their DNA tested when they were about 4 months old.

 

*pamallhoney-I'm actually not too sure if they are fraternal, I'm going off of my doctors knowledge (or his perfection of using google :lol: ) and what he has told me so far. This is my first pregnancy, and I was blessed with twins. So I wanted to know everything I possibly could about twin pregnancy and so on.....and I figured anyone can read a book written by pediatricians, pyschologists, etc.....but absolutely no one could give me a heads up and more profound advice, than mothers of multiples themselves!


I look forward to getting to know each of you as much as possible and look forward to the much needed and always welcomed advice/sanity tips. The newest ache and pain would be the twins and their amazing trick of what seems like they are pushing off of each other into my ribs.....

 

Congratulations on your boys!! I'm glad you found this site. There are loads of informative and supportive people on here! Your boys must be di/di if the doctor is telling you they're fraternal (meaning they each have their own amniotic sac and placenta) which is most likely fraternal but there is no real way of knowing for sure until they're born. If they have different a blood type or end up with different color hair or eyes, then they are def frat but if not the only way to know would be a DNA test. My sister's twins were di/di but they have the same blood type and after a year of my sister wondering (because they also looked a lot alike) she got a DNA test and they are indeed identical! Good luck and welcome again! Please keep us posted!!

 

:welcome: to TS! Congratulations on your twin pregnancy!

 

Ha, ha yes us mothers of multiples learn alot through each other, reading books and just living it.


So are your boys head down? Are you planning a c-section or vaginal? Again Welcome!!!

 

Welcome to Twinstuff. :welcome: Congrats on your boys. :Clap:

 

Thank you again ladies for the warm welcoming :thanks:



As for the delivery plan, I do plan to try for a vaginal delivery. Twin A has consistently stayed head down, but twin B on the other hand has decided he would like try every single position possible. A friend of mine who delivered her twins vaginally, delivered twin B breech. My only cause for concern with that is tearing. I dont want them to automatically give me an episiotomy if it's not necessary. So my next question to you ladies would be how many of you tore, or just went ahead with the episiotomoy to prevent tearing?? And at what week were you ladies checked for dilation and put on the NST's? I started my NST's last week, and will be on the monitors twice a week. I have showed absolutely no signs of labor, no contractions, but have had some minor cramping and back pain. I also havent dropped an inch either. So just curious, as I know that all pregnancies are different, what some of y'all went through

 

Congrats on your twin pregnancy & welcome to Twinstuff!!! :woo: :woo:

 

:wavey: and welcome to Twinstuff! Congratulations on your twins!! :Clap: