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Twins and multiples in the Navy

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This is a group for navy moms who have twins or multiples and at least one has decided to join the navy. Share experiences of how you are coping and also how your kids are coping with being without their sibling.

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Latest Activity: Aug 29, 2020

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Handling the Twin Bond Relationship at Bootcamp

Started by Sierrascrapper (ETN2). Last reply by rebecca1957 Aug 29, 2020. 29 Replies 1 Like

I wanted to ask about this topic as it has a deep impact on how twins relate to each other. This will be good future reference for other Navy Twin Moms as their sons leave for BC. I only have one…Continue

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Comment by Sierrascrapper (ETN2) on August 15, 2013 at 10:44pm: What an AWESOME story Disy. So special. I would've been so scared being in a foreign country and going through that. How cool that your other girls came afterward all on their own.

CO-twin...wow you sure went through a lot. Amazing to hear how difficult it was for you. I thought we had a tough time...but not nearly anything like you gals have been through.

We tried for 3 years after we got married and had no luck. I went through hormone treatment and we still couldn't get pregnant. We finally gave up and I stopped taking the hormone pills for a year. Shortly after that we got pregnant with the boys! My biggest fear after that was getting pregnant with twins again...and boys again for that matter! LOL

Comment by CO-TwinSalorsMom on August 15, 2013 at 10:31pm: My twins are IVF also, 5th pregnancy, miscarried 3, stillborn twins 2 years before S&S were born. I was on bed rest also. read a lot of books! How wonderful for your twinkles. What a wonderful story. God was with you and gave you two blessings.

Comment by Disy (Ship12Div371) on August 15, 2013 at 10:17pm: Okay so my twins are thanks to the marvels of modern medicine and are IVF - after 4 attempts finally I was pregnant with 3 ! I thought it would never happen and to be honest hubby and I had decided this would be our last attempt! At 19 weeks I miscarried and was in terrible pain and had to be rushed to the hospital! It was obvious I had miscarried. We were living in Botswana in Africa at the time and I was the only white woman in the hospital with African mid wives! Hubby was distressed and one of the mid wives had her ear piece to my tummy and was listening! The next thing she looked up at my hubby and she said " ah ha - I still see two twinkles in your eyes "! Sure enough - one of the babies had miscarried but my two twinkles were still intact and even though I was on bed rest for the remainder of my pregnancy - my twinkles went to full term! Funnily enough baby 3 AND baby 4 were totally unplanned and natural! Funny how life works!!

Comment by Sierrascrapper (ETN2) on August 15, 2013 at 10:12pm: I love that VBS joke! I MUST get a new phone by next July. Something internally happened to mine (and my husband's) recently and the only way I can talk on the phone is if I have a bluetooth earpiece. I have already lost one bluetooth and I never seem to have the other one close enough at hand when I get a call. It's NO FUN :( Unfortunately, in March (when my phone was only 3 mos old) I dropped it on the sidewalk and got a crack in it. My husband was able to send his back for a new phone as they couldn't figure out why the microphone stopped working. I don't get that pleasure :( There's no way I will be caught empty-handed once he leaves for BC...so by then I will just have to suck it up and pay for a new phone.

That is interesting that there are a lot of twin nukes. Even if Twin 1 went into the Navy, he wouldn't make it as a Nuke. He's smart just like his bro but he doesn't have the same determination as his brother. Heck...Jonathan was spouting off mathematical equations in his head yesterday...all I could do was laugh.

Comment by Disy (Ship12Div371) on August 15, 2013 at 10:09pm: Thanks Sierrascrapper! Had to share on my fb page !

So crisis averted - goodness these colleges need 100 forms signed dated triped signed!!

Comment by CO-TwinSalorsMom on August 15, 2013 at 9:46pm: Thanks Sierrascrapper Actually I've notices there are a lot of twin nukes, is that odd? I love the phone. Remember I said before that a mom from Sam's PIR group did not have pockets, so she keep he phone on vibrate in her bra at work. So the name of VBS was invented, not Vacation Bible school but Vibrating Bra Syndrome.

Comment by Sierrascrapper (ETN2) on August 15, 2013 at 9:40pm: This one is for CO-twin and twinsailorsmom:

Comment by Sierrascrapper (ETN2) on August 15, 2013 at 9:36pm: This is for you Disy, Doubletrouble and Cathy!

Comment by Sierrascrapper (ETN2) on August 15, 2013 at 9:34pm: Looking forward to that one Disy...I've been asking myself that question all along but didn't want to ask because I LOVED it when you used the term all the time :)

Comment by twinsailorsmom on August 15, 2013 at 9:31pm: I have Ethan (a) and Emery (b). Both PIR together on 8/9, both at Nuke A-School. Both MM. Thanks for the cheat sheet!!