Moms of multiples tell it like it is

Hello, dear HDYDI readers!  We have a special treat for you today.  A guest post from the super-awesome twin mom and blogger, Sadia, of Double the Fun.  Sadia has given us a very thoughtful review of One and the Same, by Abigail Pogrebin.  Even better still, the author is letting us give away a signed [...]

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There has been a lot of talk in the media recently about how having multiples effects marriages.  There seems to be the idea that parents of multiples are more likely to divorce, though there aren’t any easy statistics specifically on this topic.  In response to this media coverage, parents of multiples are responding: The website [...]

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Ok, so I have to start with a disclaimer…I am writing right now with a bit of a ‘bad taste in my mouth’.  May as well put it out there – I’m in ‘a mood’ because I made the error in judgment to turn on ‘E!’ whilst tidying up the tornado the triplets left behind [...]

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I learned yesterday (via twitter! because I don’t spend enough time on the internet!) that NOMOTC has declared April 2009 the first ever National Multiple Birth Awareness Month. With multiple birth rates rising, I think this is a positive step. Before I got pregnant with multiples, I thought things like: * Great! One pregnancy, two babies! [...]

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For all those mothers of multiples (with extra help!) out there, or those that didn’t have help, but are interested anyway, this NPR segment aired Monday. It is on multiples and how they are changing our lives—and I’m pretty sure she’s not talking about the specifics of MY life but the bigger EVERYONE’s. I found [...]

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The views expressed below are strictly my own, not necessarily those of the collective “How Do You Do It?” mommies. I’ve said it before but, I get a little annoyed when I read about celebrities having twins. It seems like there are new famous twins expected every day. Just this week alone we’ve heard that [...]

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Continuing our discussion of separating twins or keeping them together in grade school, there was an article in the New York Times a few days ago about twins applying to or going to the same college. I can’t say that I have even considered this issue–and, with kids who are just 15 months, why would [...]

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There was an interesting article in the Boston Globe this morning about the decision around separating or keeping your twins together in school. I’d already been thinking about this issue, due to the interesting post about it this week—and then, there was an article about the same issue on the front page of the Globe this [...]

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Those of you who felt like you were carrying baby elephants inside of you, check out this article: Twins Weigh 23 Pounds, 1 Ounce at birth. I don’t know if that’s a case of undiagnosed gestational diabetes or what, but HOLY CATS, man. I’m so glad that wasn’t MY uterus about to bust at the [...]

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A mom friend of mine sent me a link to an article in Boston Magazine about, in part, the above-average number of twins in Massachusetts. According to the article, MA has 34% above the national average. In large part, this is due to the fact that MA requires health insurance companies to cover fertility treatments, [...]

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