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Twin Antenatal Class...was great!!
I am back from my twin antenatal class which was 9.45am - 3.00pm today.
This may bore some of you i know... as its twin related...
I was suprised to see 6 other pg ladies who were ranged from 20 - 29 wks pg with twins! I mean 6 (plus me makes 7) is quite a lot for the area really and for us all to be so close date wise too... I am 27+2 and was second furthest on, just one lady who was 29wks.
We had the local twin group co-ordinators were present, midwife, health visitor and 2 sets of parent and twins!
The twin parents were a set of 5 month old boys (born at 32wks) and the the other was 6 wk old girls (born at 30+6) - which were still in SCBU...yes thats right we visited SCBU from the viewing corridor... Its was fantastic!!! The twin group co-ordinators were both twin mummies too, whose twins were 2/3 yrs old but also born at 30 and 34 wks.
So overall today the twins above , example wise were born from 30 - 34 wks!!!
Eeekkkk.... So i may not have long left at all.
The class went into detail as per single pg on birth/labour/feeding etc just about 2!
I learnt alot and found it invauable! I was the only geek who took notes...lol!
The best bit tho was visiting SCBU and seeing the stages they enter and in and move up before they leave, I feel not worried one bit now about there early arrival (if thats the case).
Em x
This may bore some of you i know... as its twin related...
I was suprised to see 6 other pg ladies who were ranged from 20 - 29 wks pg with twins! I mean 6 (plus me makes 7) is quite a lot for the area really and for us all to be so close date wise too... I am 27+2 and was second furthest on, just one lady who was 29wks.
We had the local twin group co-ordinators were present, midwife, health visitor and 2 sets of parent and twins!
The twin parents were a set of 5 month old boys (born at 32wks) and the the other was 6 wk old girls (born at 30+6) - which were still in SCBU...yes thats right we visited SCBU from the viewing corridor... Its was fantastic!!! The twin group co-ordinators were both twin mummies too, whose twins were 2/3 yrs old but also born at 30 and 34 wks.
So overall today the twins above , example wise were born from 30 - 34 wks!!!
Eeekkkk.... So i may not have long left at all.
The class went into detail as per single pg on birth/labour/feeding etc just about 2!
I learnt alot and found it invauable! I was the only geek who took notes...lol!
The best bit tho was visiting SCBU and seeing the stages they enter and in and move up before they leave, I feel not worried one bit now about there early arrival (if thats the case).
Em x
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glad u enjoyed it and it was useful to u, we went round neonatal and did all the same stuff and i found it great help!
how u feeling??xx
(I feel better in 2wks when i finish work tho).
you are so lucky!
there is no such thing as ante natal clasees in my part of the UK - as they have cut them to drop the cost!!!!
that is so-ooooo good that you got to see the SCBU etc...
i never saw anything before hand - and it was ll huge and scarey and totally unprepeared for it after wards!
espeacially the operatingh theatre - where all twins are deliverd - naturally or not in my hospital!
that freaked me out - and the midwife had a bit of a dig at me for being shocked! but i bloody well was!!!!
cant complain tho as im being well looked after, finish work the 1st week in december so not long to go either xxx