So why am I writing? Well mostly because I kind of like to. That’s my philosophy for doing most things, or I try to take that approach anyway.

Almost from the moment the sonographer at my very first scan said there was something she had to tell us (very ominous, I can tell you - it turns out she’s had her fair share of adverse reactions to the news of twins, she now chooses her words quite carefully), I became obsessed with understanding what it was all about. From the biological to the practical, from zygosity to the issues of feeding and carrying two little monkeys at once; as is my nature, I wanted to know it all.

I lost hours, evenings, days even in my personal cyberspace science lessons at the outset, and gradually started to build up a picture of why and how, and the answers to whatever else was puzzling me. But for the abundance of scientific or medical documents, and thousands of practical and helpful pages, I didn’t find many accounts written directly by mothers and fathers that had been there. My second reason for writing therefore – I hope this will be useful, informative or at the very least, entertaining for all my readers, those that are going through this, have been through it, or anyone just reading for reading’s sake.

At the time of writing this page, I’m just about to enter my last two months of my twin pregnancy. I’m hoping that with the arrival of the girls, I’ll have more to say; there’s only so much you can write about fat ankles, a 45″ waist, and a frighteningly pronounced linea nigra. I look froward to the shift in focus from me to them, but hope I don’t become a parental bore, documenting in detail every blink and incidence of wind as some major developmental milestone. I’ll try to keep myself in check.

The links page I hope will be a useful resource for anything twins related I’ve found helpful or indispensable. If you find this blog useful, please in turn link to it, I would appreciate that very much.

Finally, thanks for reading and I do welcome your comments, so feel free to stick an oar firmly in at any point you feel the need.

Clare