7 Weeks ago I gave birth to my beautiful twin babies.
They are both amazing and very funny! The different facial expressions and bodily noises that they make both melt my heart and have me laughing and smiling a lot!
Megan weighed in at 4lb 9oz and Oscar was 5lb 2oz. They were born by C-section with just a little complication at the beginning when Megan was tangled in her cord. They were both taken to special care but only for a short while, less than half an hour.
Over the following 48 hours Oscar lost 13% of his birth weight and Megan lost 11% of hers. I had to stay in hospital a few days until I had produced enough breast milk to allow them to gain weight. At 10 days old they had both exceeded their original birth weights!
It has not always been easy looking after two newborn babies at the same time twenty-four hours a day, I am on my own with the twins and my other son who is nine. He tries to help out, he is so lovely. I am lucky enough to have a good network of friends who I can comfortably ask for help when needed. I had a proper sleep a few weeks ago (More than 5 hours) when Candy (Mummykins) and Bird came over and did the night shift with the babies for me!
Two nights ago the twins BOTH slept from 11:30pm through until 5:00am - this was such an achievement, it was followed by a joint 11:30pm - 5:30am again last night.
We went to London today to visit Lynn. She is a friend of Candy's who I have not met until today - a really lovely lady. She had a beautiful little bungalow neatly hidden between other buildings in Islington. The ground where it was built upon twenty years ago used to be an orchard so there was some really well established trees in her courtyard garden. It was so quiet you could hear the birds and no traffic noise. I could not believe I was just a stones throw away from Essex Road!
On the journey home I encountered an insane poo explosion from Megan! It was savage. Trying to change a baby on the drivers seat of a car whilst being illegally parked in an East London 'Ghetto' is not an easy task.
Oh the joys.....