by Joanne

I nearly fell off the ultrasound bed when we discovered I was having twins.

We’d got to the 18-week mark without having an ultrasound (our obstetrician said it wasn’t necessary until then), so seeing two little heartbeats was quite a shock.

The next shock was finding that we were having twin girls. There had been 100 years of boys only in Darren’s family - five generations without a girl. Until the ultrasound, I hadn’t wanted to know the sex of our baby, but when we were told it would be two, I had to know whether they were boys or girls, or a combination!

We spent the next 18 weeks in shock, changing our single-baby plans to accommodate two.  How on Earth was I going to handle looking after two babies? I had had first-time-mother daydreams of spending hours gazing into the eyes of my beautiful baby (singular) - how was I going to share myself between two babies at once, giving them all that they needed? (more…)