I scrolled back through a little and couldn't find any threads on this topic. We very unexpectedly discovered our 2nd set of twins at a 21 week u/s this past Mon!!! They will make babies 9&10 for our family. Our 1st set made #4&5. My first set I delivered completely naturally in a hospital after 3 previous hospital births with our older 3. After our twins we transitioned to homebirthing and never looked back. Of the 3 single children that followed our 1st set of twins one of those was an unassisted birth. I apprenticed as a midwife for 7 years before marriage and my husband is a paramedic so we were very comfortable with it and both of us have attended many births...never twins though. We were very close to going unassisted this pregnancy but decided against it at 12 wks....which I am now very grateful for! We now have an absolutely wonderful midwife we are in love with.
But my question is this. Has anyone on here homebirthed twins or is expecting twins planning to home birth? Just curious for those that already have delivered them at home what the experience was like...how long between babies, if you had a waterbirth if you had to move from the water to a dry place for the 2nd baby for monitoring, if transition occured twice, if you were in the water how the 2nd baby was monitored, etc. My 1st set were born only 5 minutes apart but I also know it can be as long as 2 hrs between babies. A was born vertex and B breech.
I have an appt next week to talk details with my midwife and the changes in the birth that this means. Dh and myself along with my midwife are all very much at peace with continuing on as planned with a home water birth. Just some changes to the birth itself that will be made...such as the number of people on hand, as there will now be 2 other midwives present and 2 more assistants for charting and fetching things, another u/s at probably around 36 wks to check positions and so on. I went all 40 wks with my 1st set so fully anticipate going all 40, or close to it, this time around too.
So, any twin home birth stories on here?
But my question is this. Has anyone on here homebirthed twins or is expecting twins planning to home birth? Just curious for those that already have delivered them at home what the experience was like...how long between babies, if you had a waterbirth if you had to move from the water to a dry place for the 2nd baby for monitoring, if transition occured twice, if you were in the water how the 2nd baby was monitored, etc. My 1st set were born only 5 minutes apart but I also know it can be as long as 2 hrs between babies. A was born vertex and B breech.
I have an appt next week to talk details with my midwife and the changes in the birth that this means. Dh and myself along with my midwife are all very much at peace with continuing on as planned with a home water birth. Just some changes to the birth itself that will be made...such as the number of people on hand, as there will now be 2 other midwives present and 2 more assistants for charting and fetching things, another u/s at probably around 36 wks to check positions and so on. I went all 40 wks with my 1st set so fully anticipate going all 40, or close to it, this time around too.
So, any twin home birth stories on here?
