Moms of multiples tell it like it is

Earlier this month, I wrote a post about marriage and multiples which included a link to the MOST (Mothers of Supertwins) survey about Divorce and the Multiple Birth Family.  After gathering survey data for a month, the preliminary results are available. 2,849 parents and guardians of multiples completed the MOST Divorce and the Multiple Birth [...]

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3 days in a petri dish 36 weeks in utero 3 months in the same crib 11 more months spending their lives side by side. And then BAM! 5 days spent 3,000 miles apart. My cousin recently had twins* and I’d been chomping at the bit to go see them. Originally I’d planned to go [...]

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Around the time my boy/girl twins were sitting up, we started looking for toys for them to play with. Nothing fancy, and nothing expensive. In fact, the majority of our acquisitions come from mothers of multiples garage sales, Craigslist, or the classified section of our neighborhood parent group forum. A friend offered for me to [...]

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In light of recent events in the news (here, here, and here), the topic of race in America has been heavy on my mind. Please bear with me as I deviate a bit from the norm. When I was in first grade, I had a conversation with my mother that ended with both of us [...]

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The past few days, I’ve been flooded with feelings… how do I describe it?  It’s excitement, but also a bit of shock or it might even be denial?!  You see my twins will be O-N-E in about a month.  Many of you have been there-(I loved Laura C’s post a few months ago about Birthday [...]

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Ok, let’s state the obvious – life with one child vs. multiples is, well – completely different.  I have to say though that as a parent, I’d always felt pretty confident in the area of discipline.  I have a general approach or style of parenting about which I have great conviction – a happy medium [...]

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This weekend, we attended two lengthy family celebrations. In years past, these sorts of celebrations filled me with dread. Where the normal person sees a relaxing cookout, I see an eternity of chasing kids, sweating, breaking up fights, prying hickory nuts out of small slobbery mouths, etc. Definitely not relaxing. This weekend was different. My [...]

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I have decided to step outside of my normal blogging trend today to post this “guideline” of questions to ask for those of you who are fairly new to your pregnancy with multiples.  I did not ask many of these questions myself simply because I did not know.  I have compiled this list after two years [...]

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I planned to write a coherent, reflective, thought provoking review of Dr. Marc Weissbluth’s new book about sleep and multiples, but it will have to wait. Instead, I’m going to write a self-indulgent, hopefully humorous, look at a recent day in my life. Just to provide some background… at the end of June we decided [...]

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Parenting is hard. Really, REALLY hard. I often tend to focus on the negative aspects of parenting, without acknowledging the really great times. And there are a lot of really amazing aspects of our days…it’s just that they come in small bursts and tend to get overlooked by the tantrums in Target and constant sibling [...]

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