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Hibiscus 
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 Posted: 24 September 2012 at 8:58am |
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Kels! Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Your babies are just gorgeous! (Sigh, I want babies, not toddlers!) Sorry I haven't been able to check in here for a few days and am now kicking myself that I haven't as I have missed out on your great news! Your birth story sounded pretty similar to mine. You did so well! How is the breast feeding going? I found it pretty painful for quite a while...
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Posted: 25 September 2012 at 4:18pm |
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Congratulations Kels! Your babies are gorgeous! Loving the fuzzy hair :) And so good to hear a positive natural birth story.
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Kels152
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Posted: 26 September 2012 at 2:45pm |
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Thanks Hibiscus & T-Pup!
The breastfeeding is no longer going :( I couldnt breastfeed my daughter and this time It was actually going really well so I was stoked and loving it! Isabella was a great feeder & latcher, but Ruby has poor sucking reflex and was losing too much weight because she was getting so tired trying to breastfeed and not getting enough, then when we went to top her feeds up with formula she was so tired she wouldnt drink any of that either, so midwife suggested just feed her formula and we started her on a teat with a faster flow so she didnt have to suck so hard and now shes doing so well and keeping up with Isabella. I stopped b/feeding Isabella when my partner went back to work,he only had a week off and the day before he went back we were trying ways of me feeding them both at the same time and it just wasnt working, we couldnt figure out how it could be done and I was having one of my BAD days so we decided to formula feed both. Was stoked to have breastfed them both for a week though as I couldnt at all with my first, and we went into it saying from the begining that we would do the best we could. Am a little gutted though...but at the same time it's nice having them feeding 4hourly and sleeping well - I dont know how you twins mums who breastfed both did it and I have SO much admiration for you.
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Posted: 08 October 2012 at 4:12pm |
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Haven't been on in ages (was Jules1980).... my b/g twins are 2.5 years now!
Lovely lovely pic Kels... hope all is going okay for you now, those newborn baby days are a bit of a blur for me now.
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Kels152
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Posted: 08 October 2012 at 4:36pm |
Thanks Upsy Daisy, things are going well with us  Shells how are you going? You cant have too much longer to go! Hows the carpal tunnel?
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Posted: 15 November 2012 at 9:09pm |
Wow been awhile since I've been in here....and looks like everyone is busy too!! Hope everyone's twins and triplets are doing well and no one is stressing over Xmas  We are looking forward to our 1st proper holiday in....well ever! 5 days at the beach...bliss! The twins are just about to finish their first year at school and will be turning 6 in January  Where did the time go??
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Posted: 26 November 2012 at 3:29pm |
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hi mumoftwins, wow your twins are 6 years! I can't believe that ours will be celebrating their 3rd christmas this year! They're 2 yrs 5 months. I hope all the bubbas that have been born recently are doing well. And the mums and pregnant women too!
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Posted: 11 December 2012 at 11:20am |
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Hi ladies! It's been ages since ive been on here! Had my babies at 35+3 weeks. They were born on October 7th. Slack eh! Havent been on here to update everyone. Babies names are Ailish and Declan. Ailish was 2.1kg and Declan was 2.4kg. Declan spent 3 days in NICU as he had some fluid on his lungs and had 24 hours under the lights as he was a bit jaundice. They are both doing well and getting big fast!!
My waters broke at 6:45am on a Sunday morning and by 10:10am they were born by C-section. I had started contracting so felt a bit ripped off that i didnt get to push but none of that matters now that they are here.
I must say, it's been a hard road! It's harder than i expected but so rewarding watching them grow. I'm managing to fully breastfeed them which i'm so happy about although that is also really hard work! Not sure what i expected but i think everything is hard when your so sleep deprived. I don't know how you ladies with other children do it. Two is enough for us :)
Kels hows things with you? I hope everyone is well. I'll post a pick soon if i can work out how to do it!
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Posted: 11 December 2012 at 12:46pm |
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Hello, first time mum expecting twins, likely fraternal, now 15 weeks along due May 2013.
Nice to meet you.
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Posted: 11 December 2012 at 1:03pm |
Hey ladies! Hope all of the preggie mums and new twin mums are doing well. Congrats guest 78702 on your twin pregnancy!Hope it's going well so far :) I have fraternal girls who are 3 months old, happy to help with any questions if you ever have any. All of the girls on here have been so helpful during my pregnancy and after. Yay so great to hear from you Shells!!! I have been thinking about you alot and wondering how you have been getting on. Sounds like a very fast labour and good that it all went well and your little ones didnt have to spend much time in scbu! Love the names :) Fantatstic you are breastfeeding - I am in awe of you. Can't wait to see a pic! It is def hard work, but when you get those smiles it's so so worth every minute. The girls have started to really notice each other now, they will look at each other and smile and touch each other, it just melts your heart. We are all doing well, Isabella and Ruby are now 3 months old, we have lots of smiles & they are so active now - loving to kick constantly, and we are getting lots of cooing and baby "talk". They have just started sleeping 12 hours over night which is just amazing, ice to wake up feeling fresh after a good sleep. We are off to Ozzie in 2 weeks so will be interesting to see how that goes - the flight, time difference and the heat. Here is a pic of the girls (sorry if its huge): 
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Posted: 11 December 2012 at 4:15pm |
Hey ladies, I hardly ever come in here anymore, not sure what made me check it today. Congrats Shells, so great your babies had such a brief stay in hospital and that you've got BFing sussed. Welcome Sarah_D, hope things are going well for you. Your girls are delish Kels! So alike too My girls are coming up 2.5 years now and xmas is going to be so much fun with them this year. Better fly, they're trying to kill each other!!
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Posted: 12 December 2012 at 8:38am |
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Kels your girls are beautiful! Love the outfits too! Wow! 12 hours sleep overnight! That sounds amazing :) at the moment we are stoked if we get 5 hours. Normally it's 3-4 hours. I'm sure we will get there soon. Any advice on how to get them to sleep through the night? I've just been demand feeding. During the day if only one wakes i don't wake the other to feed but at night i i wake them both. It feels a bit mean but chances are if i don't wake the other one they will wake when i am feeding the first one. Anyway you know how it goes!
Danda08, you are going to have a fun xmas! Have you had your photo's with Santa? It must be such a fun age. I bet they keep you busy too!
Kels, how do you upload a photo? I'm hopeless, i consider myself to be fairly computer literate but not when it comes to Oh Baby! :)
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Posted: 14 December 2012 at 1:38pm |
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Shells I deliberately routine fed my girls with the intention of getting them sleeping through the night as as soon as poss. The plan was to fed them up during the day so they had enough store to get them through the night.
So during the day I fed them 3-4 hourly, gave them an EBM bottle early in the evening so DH could help (and cos I found the cluster feeding exhausting). I also woke them around 10.30pm for a late feed (tried dreamfeeding but it didn't work).
They started sleeping through the night at 10.5 weeks and dropped the late feed around 5.5 months which was when I introduced solids. They probably would have been fine without it earlier but I never thought to drop it until one started refusing it.
Yep we've had the Santa photo done, bit harder than previous years cos they were a bit apprenhensive about Santa, hehe.
To post a photo select the arrow icon for full reply editor and then click one of the image uploader/inserter images :-)
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Posted: 22 December 2012 at 11:56am |
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Hi Shells,
Ours were the same at the beginning too - we have always had a 4 hourly routine for feeding and will always wake them both, at night we fed them 4 hourly - they would have two night feeds at 1am and 5am, then we started feeding on demand through the night and they would go for 5 or 6 hours before wanting a feed, then it went to 7 or 8 hours, then we cut out the late feed (usually 9pm), and because they were sleeping till 7 or 8am, we finished with a 7 or 8pm feed and they just sleep right through. We always fed them in dim lighting at night and didnt talk to them, made it as boring as possible so they knew it was sleep time! Also like Danda made sure they had lots during the day so they would sleep through the night with full bellies. Cant wait to see a photo!!
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Posted: 28 December 2012 at 4:30pm |
/lurker in/ Hi Ladies, Just wanting a quick recommendation on a twin umbrella stroller? The one I was quite keen on (Childcare) is over $300! I'll definately look at 2nd hand, just to use about town with a toddler and 3 year old, preferably with lie flat for NB. Thanks 
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Posted: 30 December 2012 at 8:47pm |
 I hope this works! Finally here are Ailish and Declan! My photographer friend took some picks for us. Bubbas were 7 weeks old when these were taken :)
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Posted: 30 December 2012 at 8:51pm |
one more with their uncle Jason :) 
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Posted: 01 January 2013 at 2:37am |
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Awww, nice photos Shells and Kels! Your babies are getting so big already! I remember things were starting to get a little bit easier and a bit more fun around 4 months. Hope everyone had a good Xmas. And Happy New Year!
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Posted: 03 January 2013 at 9:24am |
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Well my two are now sleeping through the night, yay! I feel normal again! Kels do your two sleep at all during the day? We don't get any day sleeps now they are sleeping through. I still try though and we would be lucky to get maybe 20 mins if we are lucky. I guess this is the trade off but hard to entertain 2 babies all day especially when they get grumpy cause they are tired! It's so good having them sleep through the night though. Lats night they slept 12.5 hours!
I hope everyone is having a great start to 2013!
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Posted: 03 January 2013 at 10:46am |
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Happy New Year Ladies,
Lovely photos Shells and yay to sleeping through the night. As for day sleeps those little ratbags def need more than none or 20 mins to keep growing & developing (at 4 months the recommended amount is 11-12 hours overnight and 3-4 hours during the day).
Mine gave me the runaround at about the same age with day sleeps - so much so that I even considered going back to work and getting a nanny cos it felt too hard! That was actually the time I joined OB, I was so desperate for some tips. What worked for us in the end was going back to tight swaddling, dummies and putting them in hammocks for their day sleeps (they stayed sleeping in the hammocks during the day till they were about 6 months). Mine were also catnappers (45 mins) so they stayed on 3 day sleeps till they were quite old.
TheSleepstore.co.nz has lots of great articles on sleep and also a FB forum page you might find useful. Hope you find something that works to get them settling, my two have just dropped their day sleeps and it certainly does make for a long day!
Edited by Danda08 - 03 January 2013 at 10:49am
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