Hello berries!
I’m pregnant for the 3th time, very soon after my son was born (he is born on [name_f]May[/name_f] 15, and I’m 5 weeks pregnant). I’m shocked but I feel very blessed. I always wanted a big family, and I’m 37 yo :). Could you share your feelings? Doubts? Thoughts? Family reactions, big sis/bros reactions? [name_m]How[/name_m] does your partner feel? I know there was a thread like this before, but I need big support, and I want to know how many of us are there.
All the best!
You already have a 37 year old? Lol. I’m guessing you mean three-year-old!
[name_f]Ottilie[/name_f] is going to be a mum of Irish twins soon.
@[name_f]Sarah[/name_f] Mezz - thanks to you I’ve noticed my mistake! I’m doing my best, but I’ve learned English as teenager, and silly mistakes still happen
@sarahmezz, she said that she was 37 years old not her son lol. I am not a mother, however my mom had irish twins. It was difficult but my mom liked it. Congrats on your baby!
Sorry, before editing it read as “I have 37 yo”, which I initially read as “I have a 37 yo” not “I am 37 yo”. Whatevs.
I very nearly had Irish twins, [name_f]Annabelle[/name_f] waited until just after [name_f]Elizabeth[/name_f]'s 1st birthday though 
My mom is an Irish twin! Her brother was born 6 days before my mom’s first birthday.
I’d love to have Irish twins.
I nearly was, but Isobel came along a few months after Eden’s first birthday!
I’ve never heard that phrase before, Irish twins. That’s funny.
I am an ‘Irish twin’, my mother got pregnant with me when my brother was 3 months old. My brother and I fought like cats and dogs after age 5, and it pretty much continues to this day, but that’s more of a personality conflict I hope, not because of how close in age we are. We are only a year and 5 days apart. He turns 25 on the 17th, I turn 24 on the 23rd. I personally never want Irish twins and hope for a 3/4 year gap between my children.
I was going to say this! Good luck with your Irish Twins.
I know three Irish twin sets, and they’re all exceptionally close.
I think it would be lovely for my kids to have siblings so close in age, but I don’t think I could voluntarily deal with the exhaustion of pregnancy coupled with the exhaustion of a newborn!
I know an “irish twin” brother and sister who are so close- it is great to see!! The brother just got married recently and had asked his wife to have two close together- because he loved growing up so close to his sister.
Best of [name_m]Luck[/name_m] to you
I’m expecting a little girl which means I’ll have Irish twin girls when February comes. Unplanned and I won’t do this again. I’m in really good shape, but it’s exhausting. My body had two months between I gave birth and got pregnant again, and that’s not enough. After this one I’ll hopefully have a good long rest before having babies 3, 4, 5 and 6.
When I found out I felt like a terrible mum because I felt [name_f]Dita[/name_f] wouldn’t get the baby time she deserved, the time to be the littlest one. Kind of upset that I wouldn’t be able to breastfeed until she was one (I’m not feeding two at a time, that sounds horrible), that she would have to go and sleep in her own bed sooner than I’d planned… We co-sleep, and it’s so cosy. But she’s getting good at sleeping in her cot, it’s so cosy in there and I think she enjoys that. I’m glad I’m having another girl, I know she will be her own person, but I can reuse [name_f]Dita[/name_f]'s clothes and all that, and hopefully they’ll have an amazingly tight bond. Besides girls seem easier to me… less messy, easier to deal with, more independent. And they’ll be one year apart at nursery and school, that will be nice too. Especially if we send them to boarding school. Husband is very happy about it. When I found it his jaw dropped, but he’s being super dad at the moment, and I hope that lasts. He’s very excited that it’s another girl too. He’s the one who calms me down when I go crazy because I feel like I’m taking something away from [name_f]Dita[/name_f], or rather, that’s how I felt in the beginning, he and some wonderful people here managed to calm me down and make me realise this is a gift for her, a little sister and hopefully best friend. What freaked me out a lot was that we were planning to move this autumn, and I got it into my head that it all had to be done before [name_u]December[/name_u] so we’d be unpacked and ready for the new baby. But the buy fell through, so we’re in [name_u]London[/name_u] for another year, until [name_f]Bunny[/name_f]'s 6 months or so.
Our families mostly think it’s fun, my sister and sisters-in-law are all jealous, but also kind of thrilled we’re having another girl. They have all boys. Of course there’s been a lot of jokes made around our stupidity, that we don’t know how babies are made, and that we’ll have a dozen in the blink of an eye. But they’re all happy about it, babies are good, and we’re in a good relationship, at a good place in our lives, we’ve got money and a house and no loans, so that’s all good.
You can always pm me if you want to talk IT (irish twinning) as well
[name_f]One[/name_f] of my best friends is an Irish twin. Her sister is less than a year older than her.
I know their mom liked the idea of having two girls close together (and I’ve seen pictures of them as little girls in matching tutus), but neither girl is particularly “girly.” However, I know that because they’re of similar size, they share clothes and have shopped together, which is pretty useful
Because their parents are divorced, they’ve constantly alternated between houses the majority of their lives. I know they fight a lot, but they’re all each other has. I don’t think either of them realizes how lucky they are to always have someone to hang with, no matter how poorly they get along.
My grandmother had Irish Twins-my mom and uncle. They are close, but not as close as the two oldest boys. My mom has always stated that she helped raised 3 out of her 4 siblings.
I also know a woman who had two sets of Irish twins. I am not sure about the youngest set, but the oldest two were extremely close and protective of each other. ([name_m]Both[/name_m] sets include one boy and one girl.)
I would adopt Irish twins, or if I adopted and then became pregnant, I would be just as excited.
My closest two are 19 months apart. However, irl I do have a friend whose real twins were not even 2 months old when she became pregnant again. Very stressful as they were in the NICU for the first month, but everything turned out fine in the end. So she had “Irish triplets”, yikes!