Preparing For The arrival Of Twins!

Our own daughters were conceived through IVF treatment and arrived by caesarean a month early because of my wife's seriously high blood pressure threatening to collapse the placenta.

They weighed in at only 1 kilo 800 grams and 1 kilo 900 grams and spent their first week in the hospital gaining weight and making sure that their lungs and internal organs were all functioning correctly.

Our Doctor told us had he left it a day longer we could have lost one, or both of them so a big thank you to him.

When we eventually took them home they weighed in at 2 kilos 100 grams and 2 kilos 150 grams. Thank God they are now both strong and healthy, beautiful boisterous toddlers who keep me on my toes what feels like 24 hours a day but the last couple of months before the birth were stressful enough to say the least.

Now add to that preparing the nursery, buying cloths, nappies, bottles and all the normal things you need for a new born baby, only you have to buy everything in stereo, I'm not sure who was more stressed out. Me, my wife or our bank manager!

We were just having a quite stroll in Fuengirola after the weekly pre-natal check up with our gynecologist when we happened to pass the local shop that specializes in baby furniture and prams and there in the window on special offer was............................

We were just having a quite stroll in Fuengirola after the weekly pre-natal check up with our gynaecologist when we just happened to pass the local shop that specialises in baby furniture and prams etc. And there in the window on special offer was the perfect bedroom on display.

Of course my wife fell in love with it straight away so we had to go inside and take a closer look. It was solidly made and one of those 3 in 1 cots that convert into a single bed eventually so it would near enough do for life and it came with the matching wardrobe, changing table with cupboard and draws below and two bedside shelf units, and it was reduced to nearly half price!

"Perfect we'll have it!"

That's where it all started going down hill and you suddenly realise that the world just isn't set up for parents with twins!

The conversation went something like:

"We'd like the cot and wardrobe etc. you have on display in the window please, only we're having twins so we'll need two cots"

"Oh I don't know if we can do that sir you see it's manufactured and sold as a complete set I'll have to ring the factory and find out if they'll make an additional cot?"

Shop assistant goes to phone and comes back twenty minutes later.

"Yes it's not normal but we can order another cot separately, it will take six weeks to arrive"

"Luckily we still have six weeks till the birth so let's go ahead and order it how much is the additional cot?"

"Three hundred and fifty euros sir"

"What, the whole lots only five hundred euros?"

"Yes but that's in the sale and the extra cot is a special order sir"

By this time my wife will not even consider any other bedroom furniture and keeps reminding me that it will be cheaper in the long run as the cots eventually turn into beds etc, etc, so I bite my tongue and hand over my credit card.

"Now they don't come with mattresses, I suggest the latest Latex mattress as they're much healthier for the babies and as the cots are a special size they'll have to be pre-ordered as they're made to measure.....................

The above is an excerpt from the popular ebook: Oh Look There's Two Of Them! A light hearted look at the ups and downs and so often comical side to raising twins as seen through the eyes of their devoted but very tired father.

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Guaranteed to raise a chuckle or two.

Having Twins by alanroyhocking
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