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Finding out you’re pregnant with twins is possibly one of the most surprising pieces of news you’ll ever receive and it sits with folk differently. Mothers and Fathers find themselves handling all different feelings starting from shock and fear through to contentment and excitement.

I myself have had the surprise twin news twice; I have fraternal twins and identical twins and had them in that precise order.

I never thought to be pregnant with twins but I was delighted. I was over the moon. I was deliriously happy. I cried tears full of emotion. These were my first kids so the truth is I had no clue what being a parent was about and I had no previous experience with looking after one baby let alone two. This is maybe why I was in a position to relax in my joy of being different from the norm and felt secretly really happy with myself for naturally conceiving twins. I felt part of an extremely special club; the twin club! In my view, my twins were the best thing to have happened to me and life made complete sense when they arrived.

My 2nd piece of twin surprise news came at approximately 8 weeks pregnant if I can remember rightly. I had previously had a miscarriage at 11 weeks so I was feeling terribly anxious. An early scan was in place to relieve nerves more than anything. At the beginning of the ultrasound I had spoken privately to the nurse about the miscarriage and she could see that I was ok about things and simply said “well you have actually made up for it this time”. The nurse questioned if I had any person with me to which I explained my father was outside as my hubby was abroad and she suggested we bring him in. I’m convinced my Father was in more shock than I was. You do not expect it again notwithstanding all those funny acquaintances and family guffawing at their proposals of “oh what if it’s another set of twins?”

How did I feel? Well, immediately, I just felt so very happy to be having another set of twins. I was high on adrenalin; extremely excited. It didn’t matter that I was already supplied with the experience and awareness of how exhausting a twin pregnancy can be and indeed how demanding and exhausting having baby twins is. I was excited. I actually felt relieved it was twins. I knew the antenatal care would be in depth and felt cosy knowing that.

The best bit was telling the news firstly to my hubby who I contacted as soon as I was free of the clinic doors. The communication was mobile to mobile and he just failed to get what I relaying to him. I assert “its twins” and he repeats “what about them?” and I say “it’s twins” and it doesn’t register as it was surprising and amongst the crackling of the line he suspects I am talking about our 5 year old twins! Eventually, it sinks in and he’s excited too. Then my best mate who was one of my funny buddies teasing me about a second set of twins. Finally, my mother on holiday in South Africa at the time; surprised and had to hang up and call back. No-one truly expected a second set but everybody was far more startled than me!

Personally, I’ve learned so much from having children and having them has definitely altered me as a person; not that I used to be a bad person before, far from it but I was basically an individual who only had to take care of myself and therefore could lead my life quite care free and hedonistically. Looking after somebody else actually means something quite different and having two tiny babies being unconditionally dependent upon you is a great responsibility but one which has been rewarded with double the love and double fun.

Hence my message to all of you twin mummies who have just received the surprise twin news is do not sweat, be contented, you are about to start on potentially the most special time of your lives.

Mother of Two Sets of Twins shares experiences of twin pregnancy and parenting twins on her site Twinstips.com