Having three is better than
had to have somebody with me – Colin, my mum, or Colin’s mum.
“If I had to go to the supermarket, even for milk on my own, I had to take two double trollies and would push one and pull the other.”
Two sets of twins meant going through around 24 nappies a day.
Karen wouldn’t go out for dinner or spend money on herself – preferring to use it for the kids. Her only luxury is Clarins moisturiser, bought as presents. By the second set of twins, she was in a firm routine – but it was exhausting. She said: “I’d bath the tiny wee ones at 6pm and feed and put them down. Then, I bathed the second two, gave them supper and a story and by about 8.30pm, I was on my knees needing a cup of tea.”
But she always felt she’d like another child.
She said: “I’d had four boys before I was even 30. I didn’t think I’d finished. A lot of people said, ‘It’s because you want girls’ but I just never felt that.
“I always said I’d like another one – I didn’t think about two. I got to 40 and thought if I don’t do it now I’m never going to do it, so I spoke to my husband.”
She fell pregnant straight away – and the couple were shocked to discover it was twins again. At 37 weeks, she underwent another C-section and Rowan was born weighing 5lb 13oz and Isla at 6lbs.
She said: “As an older mum, you learn to deal with things so much easier – you cope with things better.”
Now that the boys are older, they
I know quite a bit about having twins but every child is an individual