I wrote this post on 17 October 2018 – the day we found out we were having twins. I was supposed to be working but unsurprisingly couldn’t concentrate on anything else. I wrote down my thoughts as a way of processing the news.

For various reasons it has taken me almost a year to publish it, but I am sharing it now, virtually unedited, because I am sure that other, ‘soon to be twin parents’ will relate.

I want to share my twin birth story for two reasons. Firstly, to remember it once time has made the details more fuzzy than the gas and air, and secondly, because I want to add a positive birth experience to the mix.