Moms of multiples tell it like it is

When I am stressed, I like to chew. Something about the repetitive motion of chomping up and down is calming to me. As a result, I have arthritis in my jaws from consuming many many packs of gum, and slightly bumpy teeth from crunching ice, a habit which has been nearly impossible to break, much [...]

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Lately, we have had to approach childproofing like a military special-ops team. We spend a lot of time trying to outsmart the “enemy”. But this is not an enemy we are familiar with. No, our old foe was one single little girl who was shockingly responsive to the word “no” right from day one. Even during my [...]

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This week’s Ask the Moms is in response to a mom who wrote in with napping questions aboout her 4.5 month old twin boys. Ah, napping. Both wonderful and an endless challenge. In general, I think four months is a huge transition period, from “Wow, two newborns are crazy hard.” to “Ok, two babies is [...]

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A few months ago I decided to jump into the world of cloth diapering. (Okay, okay. I will admit that it wasn’t so much of a jump as it was just sticking my big toe in the water to test the temperature and see if it was agreeable to swimming.) I have been contemplating using [...]

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My boys have been in group day care since they were 3 months old. In the last two years, we’ve seen more than our fair share of illnesses. The first few times they were sick, we did everything we could to avoid cross-contamination. This resulted in one kid getting sick just as the other one was [...]

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Thank you to everyone for your interest in the Chicco Twin Trevi giveaway. One-hundred and seventy-four people entered by the deadline—awesome. I loved reading all of your stories and hearing about all of your great kids.    I’m not kidding when I say that I wish I could give all of you a stroller, but [...]

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First day of kindergarten My boy/girl twins have been in the same classroom every year through fourth grade.  I am lucky to live in a school district where parents can voice their preferences for placing twins in classrooms.   There are at least six sets of twins that I know of at our elementary school and [...]

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A blog I read, ABC Triplets, referred to babyproofing as an arms race.  So, so true.  The moment you think you’ve gotten ahead of the “enemies,” they figure you out and get around your latest barrier. We’re probably on the lazy reactive end of the babyproofing spectrum.  We didn’t hire a safety specialist to come [...]

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When i first started working on transitioning my girls to sippy cups, it became a chore to find one that they really liked.  I, like most moms, probably went through way too many cups and way to much money, because there are soo many sippy cups on the market these days.  After the avent bpa [...]

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  In our house, one of our constant struggles is what to eat. What should we feed the kids, age 15 months? We need something that’s healthy, well-balanced, not to messy, easy and we have ingredients for in the house. What should we feed us? What to feed us is something we haven’t figured out [...]

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