Moms of multiples tell it like it is

Someone asked me about sleep the other night, and why my kids go to sleep so early. (Oh, they do….it’s fantastic! By 7pm, they are tucked into bed and I am happily figuring out what us adults are going to have for dinner and whether American Idol is on tv tonight). Anyway, when it comes [...]

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Right as my boys were about to transition to table food, Amalah wrote a post referring to the fact her toddler would not eat anything. This post scared me because I was about to experience this times two. In the comments, the readers suggested the book “How to Get Your Kid to Eat: But Not [...]

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The first look at J.Lo and her newborn twins can be seen in the new People magazine! Woot! PEOPLE world exclusive! Here’s your first glimpse of Jennifer Lopez and her twins, Max and Emme, born Feb. 22 in Long Island, N.Y. This week’s issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands Friday, features 12 pages of new photos [...]

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I think she’s out to lunch, guys. Or maybe she went to check out that new swanky bar downtown for an afternoon cocktail (okay, it was 10am, but close enough)? No? Well, then she went to the mall to update her lame-ass wardrobe of lounge pants, jeans, ratty t-shirts and crocs? Or how about she [...]

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Dressed, undressed, sleeping or awake, there is no hiding the fact that my two babies are very different people. For starters, one is male, one female. My boy is much taller than my girl. My daughter is petite everywhere except her pudgy tummy. My son? He is shaped like a mini-shrek. They sleep differently, eat differently, have different [...]

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Do you have a question for the moms of How Do You Do It? Ask away in the comments of this post, or through our Features page! ———- Today’s question comes from Jen, who is somewhere in her 30+ weeks of twin pregnancy, and also has a toddler at home. She wants to know if [...]

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To date, we have been fortunate enough to not feel the increased financial pressures having multiple babies can bring. In the beginning, they boys were exclusively breastfed so buying food was a non-issue. And as far as supplies went, we had a good start: we had half the gear in place from our first child [...]

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How anxiously I awaited the onset of actual conversation with my twosome… So many months were spent gazing into their wee eyes…just hoping  for (and often, projecting) a returned gaze of love.   With the advent of their oral dexterity, surely all the affection so generously lavished upon them would be reciprocally expressed to my eager, and [...]

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When you become a parent of multiples, the word “logistics” enters your daily vocabulary. One of my least favorite logistical activities with my twin boys is what I call the Dreaded Daycare Dropoff.  I naively thought things would get easier as the boys aged, but each stage brings a different challenges. Here’s what I’ve learned [...]

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Sometimes I think about what a crazy bit of chance it is that I’m the mom of seven-month-old twins. I think about big and small decisions I have made (or have been made for me), and wonder about the butterfly effect they had to get me to this point. What if I had decided to [...]

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