3 Months

The twinnies were 3 months last week! (Slacko me)In some ways it's hard to believe they are that old already and in others it feels like it's taken forever to get to this point.

Most people I've talked to say 'just wait till they get to 3 months things will get a lot easier then!' and a lot of things are. they are sleeping pretty most nights, last night Poppy only woke up once for a feed that's never happened before, and their feeds are finally shorter than an hour. Woohoo!! but it didn't just click over to this age and suddenly get better, it's been a slow process, we still definitely have our days and sometimes it's a struggle to get through the next minute let alone an hour but we do. Anyway I'm glad we made it here and

This is what they're up to these days.

Noah is super active! He is always moving and kicking which is pretty much how he was in my belly. I can't wait to get him in a Jolly Jumper. I know he'll just love it! He found his feet the other day and was just staring at them as they moved. When I put him on his tummy he lifts his head right up and looks around. He is smiling so much more now and it's so adorable.

Poppy is a lot more quiet at this stage although when she's hungry look out!! She's got some lungs! Most of the time she is pretty chilled though and will just sit looking around at us with these big eyes, sometimes Jono and I just crack up laughing because she pulls the funniest faces without meaning to. She is so much littler than Noah and I have to keep putting her on her tummy to practise lifting her head but she is defiinitely getting better.

They both love the bath and the sling (thankfully) and most importantly they are both really healthy and developing well which is fantastic!

Aren't they just so smoochable! xo

Twin Blogs

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I've been trawling the internet for twin blogs and here's what I've come up with so far in case you're interested...

Baby Making is my current favourite, Becky is about my age, mum of twins and her post are really real and I find it encouraging to read about where she was at at the stage I'm at now.

Babies are Simple is another one I like. Their twins are just 2 weeks older than Noah and Poppy so it's cool to see where they're up to.

A site that brings lots of mums together to blog about their twins is How Do You Do It? You can read the old site here ( I like it better)

Another one is Cherry Menlove who has a twins section on her home and lifestyle blog. You can read up on her pregnancy week by week here. Warning: I only read this one when I'm feeling confident, she seems to achieve so much sometimes it's easy to feel inadequate. Just being honest.

I'm sure there are a lot more but these are my current reads. Let me know if you find any more!

Sleep talking?

I feed in bed of a night time for about an hour (still...I KNOW!) and when they have both nodded off i get Jono to take them one by one to put them down, partly because I can't move with my giant pillow and ensemble on me and partly because he has keeping them asleep after a middle of the night feed down to a fine art.

I think he's pretty great for getting up like he does but he doesn't always make the most sense at that time of night.

This was the conversation we had the other night.

Me: 'Jono, can you please put the babies down.' (Actually it's more like Jono... Joonno!...JONO!!)
Jono stumbles out of bed and starts smoothing out our bedsheets.
Me: 'What are you doing?'
Jono - as he spreads out the bedsheet; 'I'm going to wrap them'.
Me: 'That's the sheet, they're already wrapped.'
Jono: 'Oh'. He starts walking out of the room with his arm crooked like there is a baby there.
Me; 'Where are you going?'
Jono: 'I'm taking them back to bed'.
Me: 'I still have them here.'
Jono - Looks down at his hands: 'Oh'



And then we both crack up laughing. Ahh the joys of sleep deprivation. You gotta laugh.

They're Here!

Our twins were born on December 12th 2011 at 38 weeks.

Noah Luke 7lb 10oz (R) & Poppy Grace 6lb 2oz (L)

We love them a lot a lot!

And now we wait...

Picture - Fullness of Joy

I'm heading down to Brisbane tomorrow for the long (perhaps not so long) wait. I'm kind of relieved in a way because once I'm down there I know if I go into labour It's only half an hour to hospital, compared to here where although they do have a hospital, they won't deliver twins and therefore I would have to drive 2 hours to another hospital. I know which trip I'd prefer!


On the other hand I'm going to miss Jono heaps. He still has to work for the rest of the school year so he'll stay here and If I go to full term it will be three weeks away from each other (we'll see each other on weekends but still...) This past week has been really nice, we've purposely been trying to spend as much time with each other as possible and making the most of this last week together as a couple before our lives completely change.


On a fantastic note, we were told by a midwife the other day that from now on the babies could come any time now and they would be totally fine. They wouldn't need to spend time in the NICU or anything! Obviously the longer they stay in the better but hearing that was such a relief knowing we've made it to this 'safe' stage. I honestly can't believe it as I guess part of me has always thought they would come super early or something. I'm very happy to be proved wrong though!



It's so hard to believe we've gotten to this stage and now comes the waiting game...

Update on Me

It's been some time so I thought I would post an update on my situation at the moment... I'm currently 33 weeks and 2 days and looking like this....

Yep, rather large right? I'm carrying about 9lbs of baby here as at my last scan they said they weighed approximately 4.3 & 4.5lbs each which are really good weights. And still so much growing to do!! Eeek!

All in all though I've been pretty blessed and other than some rather sleepless nights (why do i now wake up every time I turn over?) and a general feeling of uncomfortableness (if that is a word) I've been doing pretty good physically.

Jono is really starting to get excited, he can actually see them rolling around from the outside and wants to feel them all the time. I think it's becoming really real for him as he often mentions how soon they'll be here and talks about being a dad which I love, it feels like he's much more a part of it now.

I'm in two minds, part of me feels like this...



...excited, blessed, like I can't wait to meet them, find out what they are, to hold and kiss them ...

The other part of me feels a bit more like this...


...as I know I have to go through a whole lot of stuff that I have no idea about before they're here.

I just keep thinking, millions of women have done this before me, and multiple times! my body is made for this I can do it!!

...Sometimes it even works!

Sale xx

I'm Back!!...and with more of me than you thought!

Well it’s been a long time!!

There is a reason I have been absent from the blogosphere, It started off with me not being very well, like really not very well... vomiting and nausea and general under the weatherness (that’s totally a word by the way), all in all a lot of miserable days...and ended in us being told that we not only are expecting 1 baby (we did know this already, in case you weren’t sure)... at 20 weeks pregnant we found out there are 2!! That’s right double! Twins! A Duo!

After laughing uncontrollably (to the radiologists amazement, and relief I might add) to me crying on and off for the next few days and wondering how we were going to do it all! Jono has been super excited the whole way along and his optimism must be contagious because I am quite getting used to the idea and the thought of only having 1 baby now seems not right.

We are so thankful to be given this gift and when I feel tempted to give in to those panic thoughts and start to get overwhelmed, I just look at pictures like these and think how blessed we are to be getting 2!

Pics here