When Does A Baby First Smile?

Posted on February 13, 2015 by Karina

When does baby first smile? It’s the most heartwarming thing to see – that first proper smile from your baby. I do adore the good drunken milk smile too, how can you not smile when they appear But I’m talking about the proper smile, the one when you know your baby is interacting with you.

My 3 year old, Lucas, had his first proper smile around 3 weeks – which I’m told is very early. Most babies are 6-8 weeks old when producing their first smile. However, you may very well find that they smile before that (like I did with all my children). My twin girls, Lily and Emma, both smiled cheekily at me in their 5th week, while “hanging out” on the Twin Z Pillow. Continue reading →

12 Week Twin Scan – DC/DA Twins

Posted on February 5, 2015 by Karina

My girls are 7 weeks old now, however, I wanted to share with you my experience at the 12 week twin scan. As I had a few early miscarriages while trying for another baby (yup, you don’t actually plan for twins), I knew from week 7 that I was expecting DC/DA twins. So the worst shock was over, and we were excited to see the development at 12 weeks. Continue reading →

The Most Beautiful Newborn Twin Photos – I’m so in Love…

Posted on February 2, 2015 by Karina

Today I received copies of the baby (+Lucas) photos we had taken the other week. OMG they must be the most beautiful newborn twin photos ever!! (ok, so I am a little biased But you have to agree they are just gorgeous right?

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A Day of Modelling – Newborn Twin Pictures

Posted on January 14, 2015 by Karina

Our twin girls are 1 month old tomorrow. And to celebrate, we got the very talented Linzie Russo to capture some precious moments this morning – taking their newborn twin pictures. Lucas also came along, and cooperated long enough to be in a few of the photos.

I tried my very best to time it so that the girls were asleep for the photo session, but of course Emma took her sweet time to doze off. I was just in awe watching Linzie work her magic with them, and I am so extremely excited to see the edited and finished photos in a couple of weeks

In the meantime, here are some of my iPhone photos of the event:

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Losing my mind after 1 month with twins??!

Posted on January 12, 2015 by Karina

Hmmm….I’m not too far off I think. What changed in a week?? I swear, up until last week I felt like I was getting more sleep at night than I did at the last couple of months of pregnancy. And that’s with feeding the girls twice a night….it seemed easy; feed and straight back to sleep.

Don’t get me wrong, they still get up a couple of times a night to feed (they are only 4 weeks old)…but the whole “straight back to sleep”-scenario is gone. NON-EXISTENT! Continue reading →

Eeeeek!!! We’re having twins!!

Posted on January 6, 2015 by Karina

Let’s get one thing straight – we didn’t plan to have twins. I don’t think anyone does. In fact, I had only planned on having 2 kids in total – so much for planning right So when on my 6 week scan I found out that there were two heartbeats in my belly, I was shocked to say the least. To be honest, I cried. And laughed in disbelief. As I was leaving the obstetrician I called Nathan (hubby) and told him the news – he was at the gym at the time and he just laughed and said ‘haha so typical us’ (I’ll explain in a bit). Then I called my mum in Norway (it was the middle of the night there) and told her and cried some more.

First scan at 6 weeks Continue reading →

Happy New Year!

Posted on December 30, 2014 by Karina

As the first post on my new website I thought I’d take the opportunity to wish everyone a happy new year and all the best for 2015!

Seeing we welcomed our gorgeous twin girls Lily & Emma 2 weeks ago, I’ll be “celebrating” the evening at home feeding and cuddling while hubby is partying up at a friends wedding…ahh, I can always celebrate in a proper way next year right?