Nutrition When you’re Pregnant with Twins

[sezaj90]

When you’re pregnant with twins, you can expect to need more nutritiously. That doesn’t mean you should eat whatever you want, though you will want to eat about 600 more calories a day. You may be prescribed a prenatal vitamin that you will need to take every day until you stop breastfeeding.

It is doubly important now that you drink lots of water. You need to be taking in at least eight glasses of water a day (64 ounces). To make sure you drink this amount, measure eight glasses of water into a pitcher in the morning and drink it all during the day. Drinking lots of water will help provide enough amniotic fluid for your babies, filter wastes out of your body and prevent pre-term labor.

You will also have to increase your calcium, iron and folic acid intake. Try to split up your calcium and iron intake; too much calcium affects your iron absorption. Most women pregnant with twins become anemic, meaning they develop an iron deficiency. If you’re anemic, your care provider will have suggestions to increase the iron in your diet or will prescribe a supplement

What Does a Twin Pregnancy Mean at Birth?
You may have a more intervention-prone birth than with singleton babies. You will also be at greater risk for preterm labor and for a cesarean birth.

If you want a natural childbirth with twins, it is still possible, but you will have to work for it.

What if I’m Not Happy About Having Twins?
That is okay. It is scary and upsetting when you find out instead of one baby you’re about to have two. It changes your pregnancy, your birth, your financial expectations, your success at breastfeeding, and possibly your career expectations. You’re about to have double the clothing, double the diaper bills, double the cribs, swings, and other baby paraphernalia.

But having twins is also very special. When you take your twins home from the hospital and see them cuddle together, you’ll realize how worth it being pregnant with twins was. Your twins will have an instant best friend, an instant playmate. They’ll have someone who will understand them completely, someone to create a secret language with, someone who won’t get tired of peek-a-boo and singing inane songs (like we grown-ups can).

If you are truly upset and worried about being pregnant with twins, contact a twin’s support group in your local city. They will help you through your anxieties and have tips on how to get through those first weeks. They will also help you with parenting techniques when your babies are older.

 

[Pica-pica]

Hi hun, I really think you are posting on the wrong forum. We are TTC and defo not pregnant with twins.

 

[sezaj90]

its if u r trying to have twins not having them, sombody might click on it ya never no im not on the wrong forum because im tryin to concieve my self and had a missed meiscarage in the past.