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@twinmum My husband said he wanted four kids. I said “we’re too old, I’ll be pregnant twice.” As a joke, we compromised that we’ll just have two sets of twins. We had two boy names and two girl names picked out and the birth order we’d use them in and the family we told about the names all...

@livefreegirl Yes. I had a child development professor say basically that if a doctor says a little of something sometimes is safe then many people will have a lot all the time. So things like alcohol are basically presented as “no, none, never” to avoid that miscommunication.

@sarrapin She might have had one and just never felt it. The day I went in to the hospital I was hooked up to a monitor and sat there for a little bit. The nurse asked me “did you feel that?” and I asked what she meant. We got to watch my contractions on the screen and she kept saying “ok but...

@daiphucka It 100% gets better and you are in the absolute worst of it right now. I promise it gets better. It’s going to be awhile but it will get better.

@igbokwe Give it time, it will happen. Even when they don’t ask outright I’ve had plenty of questions about egg freezing and retrieval, IVF, which clinics I recommend and assumptions made about our perceived infertility.

@jahrooshshalom If it’s any consolation, at 7 weeks postpartum I’m pretty sure I was still blacked out, lol. You’re doing great.

@jahrooshshalom They have no idea the toll being double pregnant has on a body and it was honestly a very isolating and lonely experience looking back. I didn’t realize how much more difficult it was until almost a year postpartum when I finally started feeling normal and could compare it to...

@ffm1967 I am obsessed with my twins and I love them madly and I’d never want anything different than what I have now, but I second your last sentence. Anyone who says they want multiples just doesn’t have a fucking clue.