Preparing for the arrival of twins

What sort of things did you all pack in your hospital/birthing bags.. for yourself and for the babies?

Or what things do you wish you packed?

For yourself: bring lots of old dark underwear (not twin specific, but I was bleeding lots for quite a while afterwards) and lots of maternity pads.

For the babies: we used everything from the hospital until the day we left, so just needed an outfit per child and blankies and car seats. I would agree that you'll need lots and lots of spill cloths and bum cloths ( if you don't want to use disposable ones). We had to go back twice to buy more of both types.

I found communicating with the outside world a bit tricky while I was on the postnatal ward and then rooming in at SCBU for 10 days. So if you have a smart phone or ipad that you can use to connect to the world... but you'll also be very busy expressing etc. and getting very little sleep, so won't be able to think too much of the outside world. At times I found it hard to find the time to have a shower inbetween all the expressing and trying to catch up on sleep.

Bring clothes that are comfy but not necessarily only PJ's as you might be able to walk around like a normal person amongst all hospital staff if your babies are still in SCBU and you are well but not yet discharged or rooming in.

I had a giant very wide and very long soft scarf (knitted viscose/cotton) and it was the best thing ever as I could use it to cover up when otherwise quite exposed in breastfeeding situations as with huge boobs full of milk in the early days and nurses trying to help you latching on two babies, nursing tops that just have a small opening didn't really work, I basically sat there topless a lot of the time.