So your two little bundles of joy have finally arrived in the world. And the day you finally say goodbye to the hospital and bring your babies home for the first time is wonderful, if a little daunting.

But all the excitement of the pregnancy is over, and you suddenly find yourself with not just one demanding baby to care for, but two. You are now at their beck and call 24/7 and my goodness, they know how to call the shots.

The arrival of any newborn can add stress to any household, and twins can be doubly stressful as effectively, at least initially, your down time is halved. And all the attention that was lavished on you when you were pregnant has been transferred to the babies. You may be feeling a little hard done by - a feeding, changing, comforting machine.

Newborn babies can be fairly thankless offering you no doting smiles but just wailing complaints for at least the first six weeks. Perhaps a vision of the future to when they become teenagers :-)