If you live in a region where stores will double your coupons then you have it made. I wish I did, but with keeping a careful eye on sales and knowing what I have on hand and store policy I do quite well and stock up on a lot of necessary items. Some stores may have a great deal but limit coupon to only one per person per item, this is where my teenagers and husband come in handy.. I have had people make fun of me for clipping coupons, clerks who rolled their eyes, and even my own family giving me a hard time for doing this. Every time I went to store I calculated how much I saved by using my coupons and first year no one seemed to complain when we went to Disneyland using savings I had built up thru coupon clipping. Now my kids get in act and help finding coupons, getting extra flyers when possible (our complex has a paper recycling bin, most flyers are thrown out) and a lot of stores have coupons in store that you have to carefully watch for or you will miss it. Clipping coupons may not make you rich but it sure can add a nice big bonus to family savings account when you take time to do so.

Third, don’t expect a full-term pregnancy. It very rarely happens with twins. The goal of a twin pregnancy is to carry them at least 36 weeks. Once you reach that mark you are considered to be out of ‘danger zone’. Even though 36 weeks is target, many twins are delivered earlier. What this means is that you have less time to get everything ready for new arrivals. I would suggest getting babies room ready earlier, start buying those baby items that you need to purchase, get things done around house that need to be done. During this pregnancy, you may not have time to wait until last minute!

Finally, you are about to embark on an emotional and stressful, next few months. It was truly an emotional roller coaster for us. I’ll never forget our fourth trip to hospital because of pre-term labor. My wife started having contractions again at around week 34. The babies were both more than 5 lbs., so we were sure that they would just let it go and we could finally deliver twins. We thought that twins were big enough and strong enough to be born safely, so I packed up overnight bag and camera and we headed for hospital, positive that we were going to finally have twins that day. After all of other trips to hospital, we were ready. Once we got to hospital we were immediately put in a delivery room. And then contractions stopped…all by themselves. We asked doctor to induce labor, and he refused, for safety of twins. Of course he was right, but we were both devastated. We were just emotionally and mentally exhausted. My wife cried all way home.

My best advice to you is to try to stay calm, help and support your wife (she truly is doing most of work), and trust your doctor’s advice. Remember, you’re goal is to try and carry babies at least until week 36, which will greatly decrease chance of complications with birth of your twins. Do everything you can to make this happen. Trust me, even though a twin pregnancy is a very trying time for mother and father, its well worth it once those twins arrive!

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