Twin pregnancy retrospective

I had the idea for this post a few days, and I thought I’d write it in case anyone found it useful. (Cross-posted from the Babycenter.com bulletin boards)
I had a (fairly) uneventful twin pregnancy, and my kids were born at exactly 36 weeks. Spent a week in the hospital, but mostly to help them transition. They’re now happy, heathy four-month olds. I was thinking about what I’d do differently if I had it to do over, and what would stay the same. So, here’s my list (or, at least what my baby-addled brain could come up with):

THINGS I’M GLAD I DID

• drank a ridiculous quantity of water
• listened to my body and took it easy, pretty early on
• slept whenever possible
• joined my moms of multiples club and got connected with a “big sister”
• maintained a blog – so fun to go back and read the archives!
• told basically no one about the names until they were born
• took a breastfeeding class. Even though it didn’t work out the way I had hoped, I think the education I had ahead of time helped me to do as much as I did.
• Waited until the end of the first trimester to tell our parents. Lesson learned from pregnancy #2.

THINGS I’D DO DIFFERENTLY

• wish I’d taken more pictures, belly shots in particular. I didn’t want to at the time, because I just felt so fat and uncomfortable (and I’ve always struggled with my weight, so who wants a picture of their stomach??). I really only took one, at 30 weeks, and I hated it at the time. Now I look back and think it’s neat, and wish I had more. My advice? Take one every week. You don’t have to show anyone, but you must keep them until your kids are at least 3 months old. Only then are you allowed to go back and start considering whether or not you want to keep them. Trust me, you will.
• a little less “what, ice cream totally counts as calcium!” Yeah, I think skim milk would’ve taken care of the calcium and not created quite as much extra padding.
• finished my quilts and other crafty things for the babies early in the pregnancy, while I still had control over my hands. Carpal tunnel is rough, and the quilts still aren’t done.
• eat an egg for breakfast, instead of a bowl of cereal, on the day of my glucose screening.
• decorated the nursery better. Silly, I know. But I just don’t have an eye for that sort of thing. So they have a perfectly nice, but plain, nursery. I hear my dad has set one up at his house in Chicago, which is where we’ll be next week. I have a feeling I’m going to be jealous, and the kids won’t want to come home.

Obviously, not a lot of major regrets from my pregnancy. But I’m not kidding about the belly shots! Those who don’t think they want to take those pictures – take them anyways. You can thank me later.

Any of the other moms want to chime in?

Oh, and for your viewing pleasure, one of the only pictures I have of myself while pregnant (the others are already posted on this site, though my mom may have one from my shower that I’ve never seen). This is after having lunch with my friend Suzanne, the day before I stopped working.