This afternoon I had my first appointment with Vijay, the obstetrician. I really enjoyed it – he’s such a nice man, with precisely the calm and knowledgeable demeanour that you’d want to see in the guy responsible for bringing your kids into the world. He said that he and one of his colleagues have a… Continue reading Obstetrician

Here we go: photographic evidence that I really do have two little people inside me! The kids seem to be in bunk bed formation at present. So neatly stacked! I think they’re just preparing themselves for a childhood of room-sharing, bless them. Anyway, they seem to be very well bedded-in and have lovely strong heartbeats.… Continue reading Proof

Well, the kids are now nine weeks old. Today’s developmental update comes from the Ohbaby! website: YOUR BABY Your baby now measures about 22-30mm long and weighs between 3-5 grams. The tail like bottom of your baby’s spinal cord has now disappeared and baby’s muscles are being worked as your baby moves around. Baby’s hands… Continue reading Nine weeks

Last Thursday we had our first appointment at the obstetricians’ clinic, which involved spending an hour or so with one of the clinic’s staff midwives and sorting out all of the preliminary paperwork. I’m heading back next Friday to meet the actual obstetrician. The midwife was a nice woman, but the whole experience totally reinforced… Continue reading Meeting a midwife

Any of you feeling vaguely concerned about my lack of pregnancy symptoms can rest assured: during the past week the twins have certainly made their presence felt (which partially explains the lack of updates). I feel fairly rotten for most of the day and, from 4.30ish onwards, I feel absolutely dreadful – horrendously nauseous. The… Continue reading Nausea

Before I got pregnant I knew that the whole ‘eating for two’ thing was a total myth, and that most healthy pregnant women needed no more than an extra 200 calories a day, and even then not until later in their pregnancies. It can actually be quite difficult to find sensible and reliable advice about… Continue reading Eating for three

Every day I learn so many interesting things about being up the duff! And being pregnant with twins has only increased the sheer volume of fascinating knowledge. Yesterday I speculated that my uterus must be larger than the standard ‘twice as big as normal’ dimensions; now I’ve just discovered that, with twins, my uterus is… Continue reading Pregnancy factoids

Well, we’re now two-thirds of the way through the first trimester. Hooray! With every day that passes I feel a little more relaxed about this pregnancy, and the chances that our babies will go the distance. The exciting news this week is that, as of today, our babies are foetuses. Don’t kids grow up quickly… Continue reading Eight weeks

It might seem a bit strange to finally meet my GP when I’ve got so much going on, but she was only allocated to me in the second half of last year, and when I’ve had a couple of doctor’s visits since then she’s never had appointments available and I’ve just settled for whichever doctor… Continue reading Meeting my GP

By now all of the current readers of this blog know that we’re having twins, so I can write about yesterday without anybody getting too huge a surprise. Our scan was at 8am. Tristan was there, sitting at the head end while the magic wand did its internal scanning thing, and he reckons that he… Continue reading Twins!