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expecting triplets
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broonie25
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Hi am looking for any information about expecting triplets? :eek:
My wife and i have just been for a first scan and to our surprise where told there are 3 little heart beats inside, no ivf, so our life have just been turned upside down,:rotfl:
We stay in a small 2 bedroom flat that when have owned for 3 years, joint income of around £40,000 that will be halfed because the wife wont be able to return to work after her maternity leave plus only last year changed my car but still only have small ford feista so will have to change again.
Please HELP if anyone has any ideas or have been through simmer situation
My wife and i have just been for a first scan and to our surprise where told there are 3 little heart beats inside, no ivf, so our life have just been turned upside down,:rotfl:
We stay in a small 2 bedroom flat that when have owned for 3 years, joint income of around £40,000 that will be halfed because the wife wont be able to return to work after her maternity leave plus only last year changed my car but still only have small ford feista so will have to change again.
Please HELP if anyone has any ideas or have been through simmer situation
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I just wanted to send you both congratulations!!!
Someone will be along soon with good advice
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Start looking for BOGOF offers on baby essentials now?!?!?!?!!?!!? Sorry - that's the best I could come up with! Congrats!
Save me from spending...
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Just wanted to say congrats, wow what a great surprise!!!
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Congratulations, that must have been some scanning session! I would look at asking on Freecycle for baby clothes and goods as you'll need quite a bit. Have you tried internet triplet forums? Hope it all goes well for you both!0
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Congratulations.
Enquire at colleges that do nanny training - they like to do their work experience with twins and triplets. It will be free to you.0 -
Go to entitledto.com and work out what you can claim in the way of tax credits, and work out the budget for when the baby comes. Save as much of your wifes wage as possible while shes still working to use as a buffer.
Start collecting items from freecycle now! High Chairs x3 will be very expensive.
Look out for bundles of clothes on freecycle and ebay which the babies will be able to share.
Join all the baby clubs you can find to get discount vouchers.
I remember some one saying Ikea do reasonable prices cots?
Declutter your house now. You don't have much room and will have less with 3 babies plus their equipment, so ebay the unwanted/needed stuff for the baby fund and the extra space.
What a suprise! Good luck to you. Triplets come early i'm guessing , so you probably have about 5 months?
Edit: With twins or triplets routine is going to be especially important to you all. The Baby Whisperer (Tracy Hogg) has a section in her book for muliples routines and is imo very good. Check out the library for that, and the other maternity books you might want; you can always buy a copy if you find one particularly helpful, but you can keep books up to 9 weeks anyway (renew 3 times)."On behalf of teachers, I'd like to dedicate this award to Michael Gove and I mean dedicate in the Anglo Saxon sense which means insert roughly into the anus of." My hero, Mr Steer.0 -
Have a look at the TAMBA (Twins and Multiple Births) http://www.tamba.org.uk/website they deal with this sort of thing all the time and will be able to help you organise things. They can also put you in touch with a local group who can help, so you have other people who are in the same boat as you.
Congratulations, what a wonderful surprise. Wishing you all the luck in the world.0 -
congratulations. it sounds lovely to have twins but to have triplets .. WOW
its a instant family. only advice i have is take all the help you can from friends and family.
i can only imagine what hard work it will be in the beginning, i only have experience of having 1 at a time. but once you get into a routine of some sorts it will be easier.
good luck and keep us posted and updated .Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, champagne in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming ~ WOO HOO what a ride!0 -
Congratulations! Tamba is a good place to start - there's a triplets section within their message board. Tamba also have supertwins groups, and will be able to put you in touch with other triplet families in your area.0
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Natural triplets is a rare event. Plenty of publicity should see the freebies flowing your way! Do you now anyone in PR?0
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