Congratulations Simone,
Twins are a joy!!! I know this because I have twins. Mine are now in their teen years and for the most part are the best of friends.
I don't know about Australia, but in N America there are several twin (multiple birth) clubs. Moms and children get to together to share coffee, info, stories, and support. Lots of activities planned for the children. Ask your ob if there is one in your area. They are a great source of information and a good starting point.
By the crawling - toddler stage, I found I had more time than many of my friends who just had a singleton. The twins entertained each other while I prepared dinner, cleaned, studied, etc. My friends often felt they had no time as the singleton needed mom to be the entertainer all the time. So, enjoy!! and continue your studies
I also nursed my twins for 15 months with no troubles other than mastitis(sp) a few times in the early days when I was totally exhausted (I read up on mastitis at the time and the 3 reasons for it were stress, exhaustion and nursing multiples - well, duh!!) - do try to have some support in place for when you first get home with the babies - help with food preparation and laundry. Ask hubby to get up and change babies in the middle of the night and hand them over to you for nursing. Those early days, for me, are a kinda fog. Fortunately my hubby was not working outside the home at the time and was very helpful. Don't be afraid to ask for HELP!!! My friends and neighbours organized meals for me for the first week. Each night a different casserole was delivered to my door. It was fantastic!! Maybe someone could organize something like that for you. Or at the very least take care of the shopping.
And don't let the docs worry you unduly about premature or early birth. Many twins, including mine, are born late and have good birth weight. My due date before we knew there were two was 8th Aug, when the doc found out it was twins, he moved the due date to 26th July (twins are always early he said), finally the twins were born Aug 16th.
Enjoy!!
Gini
ps - if you would like to ask any specific questions about my experience feel free to email me ginimas@hotmail.com

I just read what I wrote. I hope I'm not scaring you, it really was good!!! I'm just glad I had lots of support for those first weeks at home. They were my first babies, and I was also stressed with not being sure if I was doing it right. You have parenting experience, so you will probably weather the first month better than I.
Find out if there is a diaper service in your area, it was also a big help to me. 2 large garbage bags full of clean diapers were delivered to my doorstep and the dirty taken away. And it was cheaper than disposals - which I didn't want to use anyway.

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Hi Simone,
I tried to respond to your email but it was returned undeliverable so I copied it to a private message here. I don't know why we seem to be having problems here, both having hotmail accts and all.

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Simone

I did get your private message and apologize for not replying sooner. I would love to be a study partner and be able to "bounce" naturopathic thinking around with you.

More importantly - how are the wee ones doing??

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Hi Simone

yes I can recieve private Email - I had a comp virus not to longago so I wasn't returning any Emails as I didn't want to pass it along.

Identical twins - that is very exciting. Are you gonna find out the sex of them? I vote yes. The best feeling in the world is having your baby moving around in you. I loved that part of being pregnant soo much and never tired of it. It truly is amazing isn't it?

I am in my second year of traing and yes I am taking homeopathy as my electives but I also take the homeopathy course offered by Robin Murphy and that is where the majority of my training comes from (except for the training I get from frequenting this and other boards).

I really am much more in love with homeopathy than Naturopathy but I do think that some of the naturopathic treatments are valid for preventing disease and maintaining good health and I feel that the education I recieve in holistic nutrition is extremely beneficial.

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Hi BArb good to hear from you.
Can you recieve private e-mail? , cant remember. If not, would you like to forward me yours at home?
The wee ones are doing fine, they are identical, yet to find the sex, they have been active a fair bit latley, and I'm getting excited now. Lot's of thing's to prepare.
Where are you in your training? and are you doing Hom for an elective?
simone

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