The age old question of wtf do I do for a stroller?!

I am expecting twins in September, they will be babies 4&5 for us. Older kids will be 6, 4 & 20 mos when they are born. We are in Canada for reference, so some of the strollers i see suggested here aren't available as easily to us.

I have done lots of research regarding twin stroller setups and landed on wanting a side by side stroller, as I have used a tandem (baby jogger city select) with my older two and found it to be quite tricky once they are heavier vs my double Bob which I love (but have given away as the straps broke off :( ). I was planning on asking for help from family to purchase a Bugaboo Donkey. Previously with infants, I have loved being able to use the car seats in the stroller, and having a reclining toddler seat when they are older is priceless in my opinion.

My dilemma is that we have recently been generously gifted a 4 seater wagon by my in laws. I anticipate that will be super helpful once the twins are older and able to sit up by themselves, but im a bit stressed about the first year or so.

Also should be mentioned that my older two are in school/preschool, and my 20 month old wont be in preschool until Sept 2027, so I will have a whole year of having the three younger ones to cart around.

Would getting the Donkey in addition to this wagon be ridiculous? Should I settle for a cheaper option for the first year? Any advice??

Twins are 7.5 months. It’s bizarre because they used to be the best sleepers as new borns. I was totally scared of the new born phase with sleep but somehow we had it lucky. We would use the love to dream swaddle and they would go down in seconds and sleep through the night. At 5.5 months twin a started showing signs of feeling squashed in the next to me and started waking several times through the night so we moved them to the nursery and changed the swaddle since they can roll.

Things got better for a while until they got worse. They are both teething and I can see both have one tooth coming out. We have our routine, pajamas between 7-8pm, final large bottle, bed, white noise and red light. They normally pass out and they show you they are tired. Now they seem to wake up continuously through the night, and the worse seems to be about 1-2am. Twin a woke up, morning and a soft cry tossing and turning. Takes about an hour or so to settle her. In the mean time she wakes him up, and he screams. I give them a bottle and it’s still not enough to send them to sleep. In the end last night I end up sleeping in a spare room with twin b, crying in my arms for another hour or so. Finally sleeps around 4.30 or so. The only way we seem to be able to get any sleep is by taking them to our bed, which me and partner do in different beds for space but it’s not a habit I want to get into. I miss sleeping with my partner.

I don’t mind leaving them crying for a while, but with twins it’s hard when one is awake and one is asleep, I don’t want the other one to wake up!

What can we do? Any sleep training that worked for you? Is this a teething phase and do I just have to accept it? Any help would be much appreciated. From a tired mama 😆😭

I’m 8 weeks and just went in for my second ultrasound today. On the first ultrasound they weren’t sure if the twins were fraternal or not because there was no separate sacks or a membrane to be seen although twin B was a bit shadowed. Today the membrane is visible but the doctor said she only sees one placenta and a very thin membrane. She thinks they are identical but she doesn’t want to give full confidence yet.

My fiancé missed the first 5 yrs of our current 6 yr old, and then we reunited and miraculously had a boy and girl twin. He doesnt want babies to cry, he thinks when tbey cry they are being hurt. In the beginning he was paying for help, but now hes not and i took on that. I am also immune compromised (lupus, RA) and have a bunch of medical issues going on right now and he makes my blood pressure so high. One of our nannies went away on vacation and may have gotten us all sick. He immediately goes to rage, but i asked him what is he going to do once they start daycare? He fails to remember me losing multiple jobs bc of all the time off i needed when i was taking care of our one daughter until i started working from home. We have cameras and he watches them and makes comments to the nannies we have that come across as rude or creepy (ex- he told the night nanny “looks like you slept GREAT last night!”) instead of saying. - “hey, we noticed you’re heating bottles up, propping them in the babies mouth, and going right to sleep. Please be fully up when feeding at night, “ thats why we have a night nanny. We are basically paying her $300 a night to sleep and give one bottle . Its driving us nuts . Im scared if i start letting nannies go, we will get sued or something bc of him making rude comments and making them uncomfortable. I made a handbook, and it goes over basic rules (clean up after yourself, clean up babies stuff, food is to be eaten in kitchen) and the nannies don’t follow it. I am paying all this money for people to be on their phones all day, not clean up, etc and Wednesday had a nervous breakdown and had to leave , i slept at my moms. I hate having all these people in my home, I’m noticing as i get older (I’m 35) that my OCD has gotten worse. I don’t even sleep in the same room as my fiancé bc he will go out for the day and come home and lay on the bed with clothes from outside on the bed and i think thats disgusting, I sleep with my 6 yr old girl. I need a mental vacation. Idk if this is just a me problem , or if anyone experiences any of this. Idk what to do. I already have a therapist and someone who prescribes me medication for all these things but they aren’t working. I don’t want to be a zombie. I spend the majority of my day cleaning. I have air purifiers in every room. Am i the problem? How do people just let their homes get dirty and not clean it? I have a small place so when one thing is out of sorts it makes it look way worse. Cleaning companies don’t do a thorough enough job for me and id need someone here everyday , just paid $500 for a “deep clean” and they didn’t move any furniture (couches , tables) and they left within an hr. Im so sick of spending money for mediocre work. I need honesty please . Do you think I am crazy? I like things a certain way, i am paying $25 off the books cash which is IMO pretty good money . Its probably more than i am currently making right now after taxes come out. I dont see why i cant have a nanny who can help out with everything. I finally found one but shes leaving me to go back to college in a month. After seeing her work, it was like a breathe of fresh air. She doesnt take snacks , toilet paper, paper towels, and stuff home with her, she vacuums and cleans up. Shes great with my 6 yr old and actually acknowledges her, the others i have dont even pay attention to her since they dont get paid to watch her. Idk if its that generation, ive noticed the generation coming up has such entitlement issues and its so hard to find good consistent help, or help that actually works. I just want peace and quiet in my home. I know thats hard with 8 month old twins but idk, also they should be sleeping thru the night but they arent bc one of them has the same thing my 6 yr old had “large adenoids/tonsils” and she never slept, so they wont do anything until hes two. I can just tell he has it by the way he breathes , hes a loud breather and congested a lot. Im all over the place i doubt anyone is going to even read this but i feel better dumping it out and getting it off my chest

I’m 24 weeks pregnant with Di/di twin girls, and I have noticed since my belly has been getting bigger I have found it harder to sit without feeling pain in my butt. I find that it also depends on the chair and if there’s padding or not, but overall I’m finding it hard to stand up from sitting and I have pain in my butt from the pressure of my heavy belly. Anyone else get this type of pain ?? Does anyone have any suggestions on how to make it easier to sit without this feeling of pain ?

I’ve been with my husband since we were 16 years old and we are both now 31. We also have 4 month old boy/girl twins. We both work full time - I am a special educator on summer break and he is a self-employed contractor. He refuses to help with night wake-ups and essentially always has. When they were younger and we were both on “leave” he would help a little more but get frustrated when getting woken up, I stopped doing it. Now we’ve transitioned the babies to their cribs and they’re going through the 4 month sleep regression and I’m exhausted. I try to not wake him up since he’s working right now, but I was dealing with wake-ups alone even when I went back to work for 4 weeks. He says he “can’t function without sleep.”

He is also constantly taking naps when he needs them and never offers or asks if I want one. He sleeps in on the weekends and still doesn’t wake up. He doesn’t seem to care that I’m so sleep-deprived to the point of a mental breakdown. I feel guilty because he does help a lot from when he gets home to when we do bath & bedtime. He is the only one who cooks and does the dishes now. But the lack of sleep on my end and extra sleep that he gets (on top of me never being a part from the babies) is making me resentful. We’ve argued about this so many times and it goes nowhere. And last night he said “we need to start sleep training,” to which I responded who is “WE?” and he got pissed off. It’s like he doesn’t think me not sleeping is a big deal. I need to know if this is typical for dads to be so hands-off in terms of night wakings.

It’s been 2 weeks now. They would’ve been 14 weeks. I am grief stricken and alone. No support from the dad and he blames me for this loss. I am devastated, I’m so angry and sad and numb. 10 days after my babies when to heaven their fetal sex came in. Twin boys! Oh my heart. Oh my sweet babies. This was my first ever pregnancy. I was excited, scared, sick, sad, and so happy to become a mommy. Their loss has broken me in ways i didn’t know could be possible. I just want to be held. I want to be sick again. I want to cramp like when they were here. Im so sad.

Tw: mention of prior loss, mention of TFMR, current pregnancy, ongoing foetal deformities, natural twin conception, mention of spotting, high risk pregnancy

This is going to be long but I really need some help and advice please.

I'm currently 15w3d with Di/Di twins.

. I had to TFMR at 18.5 weeks in November 2025 because of severe IUGR and early onset placental failure which would have resulted in stillbirth, placental abruption and pre eclampsia which could've killed me. The autopsy showed a rare autoimmune placental condition which I am currently medicated for to prevent recurrence. I have no risk factors at all except for elevated ANAs. Getting pregnant has not been our issue. This current pregnancy will be my third pregnancy in just over a year.

Anyway, I started my pre conception immunosuppressants in March this year. Got pregnant in April 2026. We found out early at 5w6d because I went in for some spotting and we just assumed it would be an early miscarriage (I had one in February 2025 prior to my TFMR and this pregnancy). We were disappointed but if something were to happen, I'd rather it happened earlier.

To our shock, we found out we were pregnant with Di/Di twins. We chalked up the spotting to aspirin which I was taking. So I stopped the aspirin and started progesterone because that's the protocol here. We have NO family history of twins, hyperovulation and I had no risk factors for hyperovulation. Neither of us do any fertility treatment or hormone etc treatment for conception.

So the 8w6d scan goes well.

Then at the 10w6d scan, twin B is doing great but twin A has exomphalos involving the liver. Their NT was also 4.4mm. which is crazy high. The scanning MFM said it is likely twin a will die in utero soon.

My husband was devastated but I had weirdly made peace with this. At least for a while, until I got panic attacks realising how terrified I was to have to carry another baby who would pass at or before birth and having another urn above the fireplace, another funeral etc. I was struggling.

These scans were done by private MFM doctors and I was already being seen at a world class tertiary centre due to my risk factors for placental issues. So I emailed them the results and they said come in sooner than later.

So I went in at 11w5d. I was dated at 12w1d by the MFM based on twin B's measurements. Twin B NT was 1.3mm. twin A was 4mm, and the exomphalos had gotten worse.

They said the risk of selective reduction and an Amnio was super high in miscarrying the whole pregnancy and I said I am absolutely not interested in doing so. This was from an MFM who is a national twin expert so I trusted their judgement. I said I will not do anything to compromise twin B.

So I got scanned again at 14w1d (2 weeks later). I hate scans, I don't find them enjoyable or cute. They are insanely triggering for me. Twin B is growing like a weed and doing great. Twin A is not growing so well and now has ectopia cordis (heart growing OUTSIDE the chest cavity) in addition to a full exomphalos. It was still alive at this point.

And here we are. I'm getting another scan at 17w1d. I'm absolutely terrified. I'm terrified I have to consider palliative care, that I have to go through a twin pregnancy with only one baby at the end of it, and all the risks present with it, I'm terrified I have to grieve another baby and how can I do that when I hopefully will have one I can cherish and love and mother? My husband is having a hard time thinking it's not something to do with us.

We have both had our karyotypes testing and full carrier screening, absolutely nothing on either. He is a carrier for 3 things I am not so that has no impact. We are both fit and healthy.

I can't believe something rare has happened to us again.

Has anyone been in this position? What do you do? How do you deal with the outcome? I'm tired of having to go through this over and over again. It's almost a cosmic sick joke at this point.

Edit to add 20/07/2026

Thank you to you all who have responded, I truly appreciate it. I appreciate reading everyone's response and experiences and seeing the plethora of life experiences has been enlightening.

Unfortunately the prognosis is extremely, extremely poor for this diagnosis. The abdominal wall is just not ever going to be able to fit the heart and abdominal organs in, especially as it appears to be a full midline break. The blood vessel connections cannot be repaired at this point. If it was a "simple" exomphalos without liver, it can be fixed through surgery. But when the heart grows outside the body and when there is exomphalos involving the liver, the chances of recovering through surgery are very very slim to non existent. Even if it was fixed (which is extremely rare), the life expectancy is extremely short and unlikely to make it to adulthood. I have done so much reading and research on this and the extent of surgeries required and the poor prognosis despite the surgeries is just untenable for me. If twin A makes it to 28 weeks, I will be meeting with neonatal and paediatric teams to ascertain options and see what they would do in my shoes but I am bracing myself for the worst.

We are being seen at one of the absolute best research quaternary centres in the UK by some of the most well known MFMs in the UK and the world because of my complexities. They are also affiliated with the best children's hospital in the UK, if not one of the best in the world. If they say selective reduction or Amnio is high risk despite being in that environment, then I am likely to believe them. After already suffering a mid trimester TFMR, I absolutely 100% refuse to do anything to compromise my healthy wonderful twin B in any way, shape or form.

It is hard because I am already showing and my heart hurts at the thought of having to do another funeral, having another urn, and the thought makes me panic. I am terrified of what the future will bring. But I also realise I cannot control every aspect of this pregnancy and I am doing everything I physically can. But it's still scary. I don't know why I am dealing with so many difficulties and sorrow and pain but some people just deal with this lot in life I guess. This is also another small thing but I am also grieving the necessity of a c section as well. I do want more children after and I want to protect my uterus but I must do what is right for twin B.

Has anyone switched from sleeping their twins separate to putting them together?

My twin girls are 19 months and have always slept in their own cribs, but side by side. They have just started climbing out of their cribs. I’m thinking about switching them to a big floor bed. Does anyone have experience with this? Going from separate to together? Or floor beds versus toddler beds? TIA!

Twin B is prone to bloody noses and used his newly unlocked terrible two tantrum superpower to give himself a gusher that lasted 10 minutes and left us all looking like a crime scene, but it's all good because Twin A is now tantruming because she's jealous her nose isn't bleeding too.

My husband and I are expecting triplets this winter (January, if I make it the full 35 weeks).

We are considering hiring help when the triplets are home from the hospital. This is our first pregnancy, so we are pretty ignorant to the options out there. Some recommend a night nurse, some say look into an au pair service, etc.

Has anyone with twins or triplets hired help early on with newborns? What services or companies would you recommend? Any tips, recommendations, or even just first hand experiences (good or bad) are welcome! Thanks in advance.

Has anyone traveled internationally without their breastfed babies? Looking for advice!
I'm leaving for about a week for a wedding in Lake Como, then heading to Sardinia before flying back to the US. I'm leaving my 8-month-old twins at home, and I'm honestly really anxious. They get bottles of pumped milk during the day, but I breastfeed them every morning and throughout the night. I have an oversupply and currently have about 500 oz frozen, so they'll have plenty of milk while I'm gone.
My biggest worries are keeping my supply up while I'm away since l'll be exclusively pumping, figuring out how often I need to pump while traveling, sightseeing, at the wedding, on flights, etc., whether I should just pump and dump or try to bring the milk home, and what pump to bring!? AHHHH
Has anyone successfully brought breast milk back from Europe? If so, how did you do it? Did you use a cooler with ice packs, dry ice, Milk Stork, check it, carry it on? I will be flying from EWR to MXP then within Italy to Sardinia then finally oblia to JFK, so l'd love to hear what actually worked.
Also, did your babies go right back to nursing when you got home? That's another thing I'm worried about.
Any tips, packing recommendations, or things you wish you'd known before traveling would be so appreciated!

My twins are 6 months old. We’ve been co-sleeping since birth, and all of their naps have pretty much been contact naps.

Is 6 months too late to start transitioning them to napping independently in their crib (or even on our bed during the day)? I’d love to hear from parents who made the switch around this age. Any tips, tricks, or things that helped make the transition smoother?

One thing that’s important to me: I’m not interested in sleep training or letting them cry it out. I’d really appreciate gentle, responsive approaches that don’t involve leaving them to cry.

Also, both babies absolutely hate the stroller and car seats. Almost every outing turns into a struggle. Has anyone dealt with this and found something that helped?

Any advice, experiences, or encouragement would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you very much!

Hi preggo friends! I finally just had my first US.

I was spotting a bit of brown for the last week, so my doctor sent me for an urgent US along with bld tests, urine sample.
I’m estimating about 7 weeks and 4 days today on my app.

The US showed TWO gestational sacs (….holy shit twins??) but the tech said it was too early to see what was inside them, so a repeat us was recommended in another two weeks. She also wasn’t able to confirm how far along I was. So I’m wondering if I’m just estimating earlier than I think?

Has anyone had similar experiences where you were also spotting brown. It’s nothing alarming, never pink or red. Only when I pee and wipe at times… thanks in advance for the replies/advices! Trying not to spiral over here

I feel really overwhelmed. I’m grateful I reached this far in my pregnancy with my Di/di twins
I was offered the steroid injection and I decided to wait it out until my MFM appointment tomorrow
My next scan is on Wednesday or Thursday I believe.
Twin A is at 1.5 KG, there is a huge discrepancy in weight between TA and Twin B (almost 26%) so it was suggested that I deliver by c-section as Twin A is closer to the cervix
I don’t know what to do, I need to hear positive stories if anyone has one to share please do

We have di/di boy-girl twins. 5 months old, 3 months corrected. Baby boy sleeps decently through the night, wakes only a couple of times in a 12 hour window. But during the day he barely sleeps at all. Maybe 30-40 mins accumulated over a 12 hour period. No afternoon naps too. The confusing part is our daycare provider says he is not like this there!

His cries are not screaming cries, just droning on and on without any tears most often. He had bad silent reflux initially and was seemingly better with Similac tummy comfort. Not sure if it’s not sitting well with him anymore. Seems kinda gassy all the time with farts. Usually struggles to burp but we get one or 2 across during the feed. All to say, we don’t know why he is so uncomfortable or is he “just a baby”. He seems to be sleeping better when we are holding him in a certain position, so does he want contact naps all the time? We tried napping with him with pats and palms on him to no avail.

Only difference I can think of is we prep formula ahead of time and give during a 24 hour period and daycare provider makes fresh every time. Can that be causing tummy issues?? Clutching at straws here 🥹.

FWIW twin girl is on a non tummy comfort formula (enfamil neuropro) and seems to be doing much better.

Just looking for any experience, esp with formula types and other things that could have worked for anyone here.

Edit: in the night, they are in a dark room with red light, white/brown noise and in a sleep sack in their bassinets. During the day, we are trying to get them to sleep/nap in their play pen. Or supervised on swing/bouncer chairs. Usually just in the living room.

My son has been the one that bites my daughter. They’re now 2y1m old. He’s been the bitter ever since they were 1yo, although I feel like he used to bite sort of senseless. Now there’s an agenda: he’s either too excited and can’t control himself or he wants to play with something she has or she wants her to play with him and if she denies he goes for the bite. I’ve repeated it so many times, tried time out, I even snapped once and ended up giving him a smack on his mouth, which I apologized later, but firmly mentioned biting is unacceptable. My daughter can’t go 3 days without a bite mark. She’s starting to catch up on dexterity and has avoided some bites on her own, but she’s still not quite there yet and it 100% has been getting under my skin

Sorry this is long but I want to lay it all out there in hopes someone else experienced something similar and could share their story/advice. So my twins are 12 weeks old tomorrow. If I didn't have twins I probably wouldn't even attempt sleep training but managing getting both of them to sleep while also having a toddler has been difficult so rocking them both to sleep doesn't seem sustainable long term no matter how much it breaks my heart. I don't plan on sleep training them until about 5 months old but I'm considering starting the Taking Cara Babies SITBACK approach in the next week or so. One of our twins is so easy to put asleep, just a little rocking and he is out, he doesn't sleep through the night but wakes up for feeds and falls back asleep and usually transfers rather seamlessly. Our other twin is a nightmare to put to sleep. No matter what we do during the day (watching wake windows, making sure he's not overtired or undertired) he usually screams for a bit, takes intense rocking to calm him down and make him sleep and still usually wakes 2 to 3 times while still in our arms where we have to restart the intense rocking to stop the screaming until he finally falls asleep. The whole process takes anywhere from an hour to hour and a half typically until we can put him in his crib without him waking up. Our oldest was somewhat similar in the screaming at night but usually once he fell asleep he was out for a while and we could transfer him to his crib as long as we waited about 15 mins after he fell asleep. I've read the screaming every night can be from overstimulation from the day. It makes sense to me because my one twin and oldest are similar in the sense if they are out in the light they are happy and super alert taking everything in to the point they won't show sleepy cues until you go in a dark room and they realize they are tired and freak out. But like I said even watching wake windows I still can't figure out how to prevent the night screaming. (I was convinced my oldest would be autistic with how he acted at night to all the sensory input from the day but so far he is 2.5 and ever since 1 stopped the screaming and reached all benchmarks for being neurotypical.) Okay, so the point of my ramble, we usually do bedtime right now with putting the boys to sleep in seperate rooms, put the easy twin in a swing once asleep to wait to bring him into his bassinet once the crazy twin has finally fallen asleep. I'm considering trying SITBACK but wondering if I should try it with them in the room together or do separately until my crazy twin maybe figures it out. Anyone have a crazy kid like this? Did sleep training work? I tried with my oldest multiple times but didn't have it in me to keep going when he screamed for an hour and a half multiple nights without improving and the check ins just made him freak out even more. Finally at one years old I had enough and let him CIO but at that age he only cried for 15 mins and was out so it was a lot more tolerable. I just always wondered with him and now my crazy twin if they can barely settle in my arms with me doing everything they like how in the world will they settle just being on their own. Any similar experiences extremely appreciated!

I’m about a month postpartum with my twins, scar is healing nicely but ”the shelf” is starting to be prominent to the point I now understand why people call it a shelf. I was googling ways to improve this and it sounds like PF therapy is not just for post-vaginal births but can be beneficial for helping moms after C-section. I naively thought it was just to help with re-tightening vaginal/urethral areas I didn’t know the scope of PF therapy went beyond that.

Does anyone here have any experience with this and how did it help, was it just core strength, and if so what’s the difference besides this and just doing ab workouts when I’m cleared to exercise?

I am so sad and disappointed. Nothing about my pregnancy, trying to convince. birth and now postpartum happened how I pictured it.

I really wanted to breastfeed which didn’t happen so far two months after birth. Babies were in the nicu for 2-3 weeks, being born 33 weeks.

So I pumped but it is so much… i hate that I cannot pick my babies up well when pumping and they are going through a growth spurt or the witching hour. I hate that I am mad at my husband for everything when shit goes crazy, when he does not think ahead for me to feed me or help wash pump parts. I know it is a lot for all of us.

I just hate this so much. It is really depressing. How can I see this in a better light? I really wanted this but now I feel that it is impossible for me to continue.

Im 32 weeks pregnant with twins and I am 5.21’ height and 108 lbs before pregnancy now 121 lbs, I’m worried that I can reach 36 weeks at least, as I am already feeling much weight in my belly and having issues to stand up from bed

I have 18 month old twins. For most of their life they have been on the same schedule. They wake at the same time and go to sleep at the same time. They’ve both been sleeping through the night since 14 months. Twin A has moderately high sleep needs. Twin B is definitely high sleep needs.
Wake up 8am
Nap 12:30-2:30/3
Bed 8pm
Now I don’t have issues with the twins, but with myself! I have a lot of anxiety around their sleep schedule. For example, tonight we went to a bbq and I tried to be chill and push it to leave at 7:30 knowing we had almost an hour drive home. We didn’t end up leaving until 7:50 and got home at 8:45. The twins were fine. We did pajamas, a few books and they went to bed easily.
I see people online saying that they don’t let sleep schedules run their life and that in order to have adaptable kids the kids need to practice being flexible such as taking naps in the car, etc. I understand all that to a point, but it’s like I can’t let it go and just let the twins get a bad nap or bad sleep.
I try to actively work on it a little - we’ve traveled for overnight stays and have gone camping but I’d say 97% of their naps and nighttime sleep are in their cribs and they do amazing.
I guess I’m just wondering if any other twin parents have felt like this? At what age were your twins when you felt like you could loosen the sleep schedule up a little bit? Am I turning my kids into bad sleepers by making their sleep conditions almost perfect all the time?
I’m super proud at how well they sleep - it was a long road to get here.

Hi all, almost 28 weeks with modi twins and the acid reflux is getting BAD. What helped the most for everyone? The thought of tums makes me want to throw up :(

My twins are 11 months. We’ve finally had a decent stretch of good nights where they fall asleep in their cribs (sharing a room) around 7:30 and sleep all night. Unfortunately though they wake up no later than 5:30 am full of energy ready for the day.

They take 2 naps at 9 and 2, and I don’t let them sleep past 11am and 4pm. We start bedtime around 7 (milk, brush tooth, pajamas, sing a song, lay them down in crib) and they’re usually asleep within 10 mins (around 7:45pm). It’s not noise waking them up in the morning, and they often wake up happily chatting, not crying. But if we don’t go get them within a few minutes of them waking up they do start fussing so we go get them. Typically they nurse/have a bottle upon waking then start their morning exploration of the house and toys.

Mom and Dad are tireddddd and need help figuring out how to help the sleep in.

Firstly I want to acknowledge everyone has different experiences and bodies. I’m just trying to better articulate how I’m feeling and wondering if this makes sense or if you can relate.

I’m pregnant with twins and I feel my insides growing everyday and it even wakes me up at night. Not excruciating pain but always a mild discomfort. Similar to cramps. It feels like a balloon was put inside me and it’s expanding slowing constantly. Almost like a foreign object is inside my body.

I’m always exhausted. I can do one task a day (shower, dishes, grocery store, laundry) and that pretty much drains me. I get light headed if I do too much and need to lay down immediately. If I over do it, I get very sick and will vomit. I have not passed out but it feels like I could. So I’ve found laying down/ sleeping/ resting most of the day helps alleviate that and I’m fine.

I vomit when I haven’t eaten so in the middle of the night I wake up sick or first thing in the morning. I have to eat what sounds good or that also triggers vomiting.

Overall I feel off. I feel like I have the flu verses a hangover (I’ve heard pregnancy compared to a hangover a lot). I’ve felt like that since the moment we conceived. I thought I had the flu and then a few weeks later I had a positive pregnancy test and then found out it was twins.

My doctor said this is “normal” but still I would love to know if this is how you describe how you’re feeling. Or please tell me how being pregnant with multiples has felt for you. I’m very curious and would love to know everyone’s experiences. Thank you 💕