tell me about your full term, no PIH multiple pregnancy!

Deep breathing . . .

You're doing great - no reason to think anything's going to change, right? Here's best wishes for a fabulous, full term birth. (There's been a lot of them here among MOMs at MDC to prove those "twins always come early" rumors aren't 100% correct)

I just delivered twins on 2/22 at 39w5d, no PIH or anything else wacky whatsoever I had some icky edema the last week, and my BP did go up, but never to levels that were concerning. I too never thought I would get that far with twins especially since my singleton was born at 36w, but I proved everyone wrong for sure

PS- an intervention free birth is totally doable. I labored at home completely natural with my midwives and we only ended up transferring (at 10cm, after four hours of pushing) for maternal exhaustion and because my DD was really poorly positioned (breech, and when they did the c-section they found out she had one leg up by her head and one almost folded under her... it was really weird.) So it can be done! The best advice I have is concentrate on nutrition (pound protein and water like there's no tomorrow) and optimal fetal positioning, which is SO important, especially with twins. I wish I would have started the positioning exercises sooner in my pregnancy, because if I had my homebirth would have been successful.

Best of luck

Thanks!!! I needed to hear that...

Appleseed - we're naming one of our twins Willa... everyone thinks it's Willow when we tell them though! ***I just noticed how recent 2/22 was! Congrats!!! And double thanks for taking time to reply with newbie twins and another kid in the house... what a mom!

At my last u/s the girls were both vertex and it turns out that most of the positioning exercises are just more comfortable for me anyway - so I've been doing them too!

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My twins thankfully LOVE their sleep and my toddler decided to go easy on me today

I was always comfy on my hands and knees toward the end of my pregnancy too... I spent a lot of time in bed on my hands and knees, on the laptop. I must have been a sight Awesome that they're vertex at 28 weeks though. Mine were transverse-breech at 27 and they stayed that way

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i delivered 10 wks early, ptl. but no pih at all for me!!!! and i delivered both vaginally with a footling breech baby b!

I delivered at 40w3d, I gained nearly 80 Lbs, each boy weighed 8Lbs 15oz. I was due mid-august in Michigan. The last month+ my feet were HUGE my, toes were pushing each other out of the way and the only thing that fit was a pair of stretched out flip flops. I even wore them to a wedding I always felt great. Towards the end my BP did begin to creep up and I began spilling some protein but my OB never said anything and it always stayed just on this side of normal. I had been determined not to deliver early but even I was surprised when 40 weeks came and went. After that I started telling the boys in my tummy that they were welcome to join us and how much we were looking forward to seeing them. It was a great delivery, double vaginal and things went great.

Passing on happy pregnancy vibes your way!

I delivered vaginally at 37 weeks, no PTL, no PIH (although my BP was consistently higher throughout the twin pregnancy for me than it was in my singleton pregnancy -- around 115 over 80, usually 90/100 over 65.) Babes were 5.7 and 6.2 and nursed right away (still are nursing happily now, 20+ months later!) Twin A was vertex, twin B tried to come out with both feet and a first and my doc tucked her hand back up and pulled her out by her feet... she's been seeing the world in a different way ever since...

I had horrible M/S the first 25 weeks (threw up every day from week 6 to week 24... not fun) but it came in the evening, so I was able to keep up with everything (including a then-wild 2-year-old) and just s-l-o-w-e-d way down in the p.m. to prepare for the barfing. And at the end, I had what my OB said was carpel tunnel syndrome -- hard to bend my fingers (although they didn't look swollen...) or hold pens, etc. Very weird. But nothing scary...

YOU CAN DO IT! Eat, drink, rest. Take care of yourself, talk to your babes, and eat some more protein! Good luck to all the mamas gestating multiples!