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sophf has 57 days to go and is now in week 31
	Age: 32 Country: Private Province/region: Private City: Private Partner: Jeremy is the father Children: Pregnant: Yes Due date: 08 Jul ,2008 Occupation: Lawyer, Writer
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WEEK SEVEN.5
What is the biological purpose of morning sickness?

This is the first and last time I am getting pregnant.
I will produce my 2.1 children, hopefully, in one go, and my babies have siblings.
I can safely say that when I slept through forty hours recently I knew I was tired. Equally, throwing up water (a whole pint) after waiting to drink for hours is not normal!

I have been to the hospital for re-hydration and am sore, tired and dirty.
Therefore, what is the biological rational for morning sickness?
Multiple mothers are supposed to get it bad but this is making me very down, tearful and resentful at week three. I found out it was twins at week seven after an amazing eye-watering pain ......

Labour pains I am expecting; they are right at the end and by then, you are expecting the pain, the anguish the blood and gore.
However, at week 3, when you are trying to get your head around being a mother, then a mother of twins and then it feels your body is trying to reject them.....
It feels that the saying "mind over matter" really comes into its own.

I read that morning sickness is to stop you poisoning the baby. Hence the water. Your body does not know that mankind invented public health, found the cause for cholera; large drinks of water means infection. Great! Sipping water did not work either. Ice just about.....

Another rational is that pregnant women up and about during the day were likely to get killed due to hormonal changes making them, "smell different" to predators. So the body, handicaps the mother at this risky time. Hence the midnight munchies. I now eat at two am-three am and cannot sleep until midnight. Best not drive to work any more then.....

Any prehistoric reasoning aside, I am a twenty-first century, busy advocate without the ability to talk without vomiting. The thing is I would have been the first on the list for Thalidomide if I were around at the time.

This is when I count my blessings and go cold turkey with this thing, I mean, I can defeat anything can't I? And I will fight anything which hurts my babies-therefore I can fight morning sickness, even fighting my own body to keep them fed, watered and warm.

I guess that is the real rational for morning sickness, once you have a found out and your body is trying to get it out, it is how badly you want it and how hard you are willing to fight must be the real biological rational behind it.

WEEK NINE
I think they're boys!

Using the stars, their date of conception and the patterns of acne on my face, I think the twins are boys. I heard today that if you have boys, you only have to worry about their penises, with girls, you have to worry about everybody elses!

Despite that, I have bought two lots of little tiny dresses, even for the christening. Boys it is then....

Week 11. The Pushchair

For all those in the US and AUS
The Jane Power Twin
Mothercare, UK
Mercedes for the Babies

STOP PRESS: Look at the Zoom Tandem (twin)
modern, lightweight Euro design

Week Thirteen
Twin Envy?

This is really weird but I am cannot believe what people say to you when you say that you're expecting twins.

I am really blessed to be having twins on the way but enough with the scare stories! Another Twin mother states that she was constantly told that she would not cope by other singleton mothers....
She left the ante natal class.....but her mother and MIL both continued to frighten the bejesus out of her ante and post natally

Admittedly some are hers, but they were too funny not to add to.

The God One
I am not really religious (but am, even more so now) but the best one liner, I have heard is
"that God must really hate me because I prayed for twins? And what did you do, Sophf you hate kids?" WTF
(I just did not want children right now)

The Fat One
Me: It's Twins
Other: Twice the fat! You will never loose it.

The Death One
Twin Mum: It's Twins
Other: God that is risky, there is such a high chance of serious complications
Congratulations, though

The Buggy One:
Me: It's twins
Them: You'll never find a buggy, you will be trapped in the house.

The Breast Question
Other: Jesus, how will you feed them
Me: I have two breasts!
Other: Yeah! One is the spare.....

I'll update the comments

Her advice to me was
"Join a twin's group, unless you've done it,
shut it!"

Week 14: Baby2

As some of you are aware I had the morning sickness from hell. This did not endear me to the twins as the sickness was so unexpected and really nasty

This week I fell in love with them, sickness is now normal - a little throw up here and there.
(No longer being sick through my nose)

And my tummy is huge!

I awoke from my afternoon nap and wrote this:
(If you use it credit me please,
I will track you down
I write for a living also,
I need to work for the extra tummies)

Baby Squared

Twice rotund and ripe,

With twin stones, two pips, second-cored.

Plump with juicy dual expectancy,

With a pair at one birth.

Two centres, second swelling,

With taught skin stretched over replica rich, full belly.

Duplicate fears, repeated fun,

With one of two similar or identical buds.

Paired at birth and in life,

A pair, a couple,

With more love for the double.

My baby, squared.

Sophf Ball

Week Fifteen

And I have one of each......
How about that...perfect result!
Job done for my little family....

No Evil Twin!
Wow, life is truly amazing.

WEEK SIXTEEN

The Chubby Question?

I am so chubby, ripe and round.
But if I see another celeb tummy after six weeks, flat and perfect I'll scream!

A pregnancy is not a fashion statement.

Week Twenty- One

As you may know, being a lawyer, I am furious with the law relating to twins in the UK (watch this space)....

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mytwins08 - Friday, 9 May
Hi! congratulations on your little ones! I'm 32 weeks with b/g twins, too, and I'm thrilled. I wanted you to know that I really enjoyed reading through your updates here. I just read them all, and I found them amusing, thoughtful, intelligent, and beautifully written. The "responses to 'it's twins'" cracked me up. I get bizarre comments, too. I hate hearing people tell me I won't be able to cope, because they couldn't cope with one. Gee, thanks for trying to be encouraging....

So have you picked names yet?

twinmommy - Tuesday, 6 May
hey there...cuddles to you too..i am also 31 weeks prego with boy/girl twins....just waiting for their arrival.
Hope you are well!

queensmurfy - Tuesday, 6 May
Hi Sophia,
hope you are well, I am 32 weeks and 1 day today, I had a growth scan and the girls are weighing in at 4lb 10 oz and 4lb 3oz,both are breech with twin A bottom engaged, they have booked me in for a planned C-Section on June 18th, but there is a good chance then will be here early, which I hope they are not sure I can take much more, I feel hot and swollen 24/7 I waddle and so many people keep asking me if I am about to drop, please let me know how you are getting on, take care Becci x

lisasmells - Wednesday, 9 April
twins!? eek, i bet they are annoying to carry, it feels like my baby is really heavy but i cant imagine carryin 2 of them around! i feel very sympathetic!! yeah it mostly is all water and etc, but the chubb is so heavy forme! i know its nothin compared to u lol but its such a ton! xx

startingoverat37 - Tuesday, 11 Mar
Congrats on the complete family all at once! Now you can just be done officially...

startingoverat37 - Monday, 10 Mar
HI there...how are y ou doing? Are you back to work? Hows the sickness?

Yes I am going to be done in a few days time. Thursday we will go in to delivery this girl.

Have you found out if the twins are boys or girls or both?

Keep me posted.

topazbecky - Monday, 10 Mar
Thanks for your kind words, I need some reassurance now and then!

tdawn - Saturday, 23 Feb
Thank you for the comment about the support vest. Have you tried them? If so, did you find them to be as supportive as a bra? I hadn't heard of them so did an online search, and found that they do have some cute maternity ones, so thanks for the info! Also, congrats on your twins!!

Glowing-Mama - Sunday, 17 Feb
Hi Soph-fe, Thanks for your message. I'm well - super busy now that I am back at work though. I get very tired these days, especially after standing up for a while. I even find myself out of breath when I have a conversation with someone! Do you have that too? The boys are going well. They just started to really kick 2 days ago and they haven't stopped since! My husband hasn't felt them kicking yet - but he's too impatient to wait anymore than a minute or so! How are you going???

twintastic - Friday, 15 Feb
hiya soph, how are you feeling?? this pregnancy has been my worse relating to the pain factor. we are being delivered on wednesday so i can see the light now thank god. i never knew ya feet cud get that big lol oh talking about ppl saying the most annoying this, i had the other day a woman say 'oh my god ya look like ya gonna explode!!' so i returned a beautiful dirty look back at her, and said to my self ya lucky ya lip aint exploded, ya lucky im pregnant and disabled lol keep ya feet up chick x

Adam-D - Saturday, 2 Feb
Hello, thanks for the message everyone we have spoken with keeps telling us the same things so we are happy that everything is OK, Doc explained the appetite thing isn’t an issue, apparently the slight change in waist line can be put down to everything moving up wards so we're happy at the mo. We have our 20 week scan on the 18th and really can't wait because it will have been so long since we have seen the little one.

Hope all I well with you and thanks again for the support, I’ll et you know how things progress and please keep us informed.

TWINTASTIC - Monday, 28 Jan
HEY SOPH WELCOME TO THE TWINNY CLUB LOL IM HAVIN MY 2ND SET OF TWINS, 1ST SET WERE FRATERNAL, THIS TIME ROUND WE ARE GOING FOR IDENTICAL BOYS. NOW IM NOT GONNA BULL, ITS HARD WORK BUT HEY WE ARE INDEPENDENT STRONG WOMAN, AND CAN DO ANYTHING. MY ADVICE TO ALL NEW TWIN MUMMIES IS.....HAVE A ROUTINE ASAP, DONT PICK BABIES UP IF SLEEPING, AND DONT BE AFRAID TO TELL VISITORS NOT TO CALL. REST IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING YOU WILL NEED TO KEEP UP WITH YOUR BEAUTIFUL BABIES. ITS SO REWARDING THOUGH WHEN YOU GET THE SMILES AND GIGGLES AND THEY LOOK AT YOU SO ADORING, COZ AFTER ALL YOU ARE THE BEST THING THEY KNOW! ENJOY THE REST OF YOUR PREGNANCY, AND GOOD LUCK.

startingoverat37 - Monday, 28 Jan
Thanks...that picture was taken when I really put some effort in trying to look decent for a pic to post. You notice it has a christmas tree in the background. It was in Decemeber. How are you doing double MOMMA? I really wanted twins. I figure two for 1. With how rough this pregnancy has been I couldn't imagine it being any worse but with my luck it would be! I am still nausious everyday. I have been going through severe depression recently- being so tired of the nausea, feeling very isolated from pepole since I am so sick I do not go anywhere really, the gloomy weather here in Washington, and just plain and simply tired of pregnancy! Erin Kelly is breech. The doctor is going to try to turn her through my stomach in 2 weeks. OUCH! I think I would rather the c section. Well you take care of yourself.

twinboys - Sunday, 27 Jan
Congrats on your twins! I too am having twin boys. Thanks for the recoomendation for my Pupps break out! It drives me absolutely insane. Sorry to hear you had such rough morning sickness. I had that up to week 14 it was a nightmare. I was so worried all the time that they would suffer because I couldnt get any nurtion in them but so thankful that they are growing great! Isn't it awesome to bond with them, especially after being so sick the first trimester. Glad to hear you are feelling well!

Glowing-Mama - Tuesday, 22 Jan
Hi Soph-fe,
Yeah we are mostly English in Australia - mind you this country is so multi-cultural that we have languages from all over spoken widely - Chinese, Greek, Italian are the big ones. Australian-English is rather different to UK English though. I think we have more American terms spoken these days due to the huge number of American TV shows and movies shown in this country. ( I speak fluent Japanese and some French as well as English ).So you think they're girls....I have had a number of people say that I must be carrying girls because I am showing a lot....We'll see tomorrow!

THING1AND2 - Tuesday, 22 Jan
and by the way i totally feel you on the everyone having nothing good to say. when we first found out it was twins my husbands mother drove him too tears with all her negativity.

THING1AND2 - Tuesday, 22 Jan
congratulations to you too. and thanks for the good luck wishes. i could use all i can get

Glowing-Mama - Tuesday, 22 Jan
Congratulations!! How amazing to be having a boy and a girl - just perfect! You must be so thrilled! I find out this Thursday - will let you know what we're having!

Glowing-Mama - Thursday, 17 Jan
Hi Sophe-fe, I was reading your comments about the awful things that people say when you tell them you're expecting twins - the ones I get which I hate are: 'you're going to get SO HUGE!' and 'You will have SO many stretch marks!' and 'Wow, having two newborns is going to be SUCH HARD WORK!'.
I don't know why people think we want to hear such things! Then there are the lovely people, who clearly care about you and say that you're doubly blessed - which we are indeed!
Still waiting to see a photo of your bumps my dear!!! I find out the sex in less than a week now - everyday my opinion changes - if I go by what the old wives say then I must be having a boy and a girl - but thats impossible with identical twins!! Suppose I'll just have to wait!
Hope you're well.

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