Moms of multiples tell it like it is

Following is copied and pasted directly from an email to a MOT friend of mine. She has been asking me sleep advice, and wants to do CIO with her nearly-6-month-olds but doesn’t have the time to read Ferber (you all know how I feel… read the book!).  I’m no guru, but I’m opinionated.  So, here’s [...]

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Dan England is one of our dad guest posters. He is the dad of three: toddler Jayden and nearly two-year-old twins Allie and Andie, and also husband to Kate.  He is a writer, poker player, mountain climber, runner and baby wrangler. He has recently written for TWINS magazine, and has agreed to write for HDYDI from time [...]

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As always, if you have a food related topic you’d like to see, write your suggestion in the comments. We’d love to hear from you. My 21 month old kiddos are heading quickly towards their twos. And no where can you see it more than in the changes we’ve seen lately around food. They have [...]

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Something remarkable happened last night…I washed and folded up our two highchairs and stored them in the basement.  Big deal, right? Well, actually, it was a big deal. The highchairs were the last gear standing…the end of the line for baby products in our house. For nearly 20 months, we have been a family of [...]

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FINALLY! My boys are acknowledging each other in a positive way! Sure, in the beginning they needed to be near each other to sleep. But that was an instinct not a choice; a simple result of having slept together for 34 weeks prior. But as they grew and we moved them to separate cribs, they [...]

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Around six months of age, my husband and I sleep trained our boys because nobody in our family was getting enough sleep. We were all miserable and sleep training changed that for us. After reading Pantley, Weissbluth, Mindell, and Ferber, we found Ferber’s explanations of schedules and sleep patterns to be most helpful to us. [...]

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Well, hello there!  Everyone waking up from the extended upheaval that is the month of December? Ah, the Monday after the holidays.  Back to work, back to routines… and April seems oh-so far away. On the plus side, my kids seem quite undeterred by cold and snow.  They would be quite pleased to just keep [...]

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Ahhh…New Years Day is finally here! Welcome 2009! I will be writing “2008″ until April, because that is how long it takes me to switch over, but I do love the feeling of January 1st. It just feels like a fresh start, a clean slate, a new starting point.  My husband and I have been working on [...]

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