Reading Time: 5 minutesAhh — peace and quiet. A rare moment for a twin mom….that’s just a fact of life! Both babies are finally napping. You’ve reheated your coffee for the third time and WHAAAA! One baby awakens, and you begin it all again, in hopes to get a moment where both babies are sleeping and you can take…
Reading Time: 4 minutesExcited and…EXHAUSTED! Those two words perfectly describe the first few months at home with newborn twins. Every soon-to-be parent knows that a lack of sleep comes with the territory of having a new baby, especially when having TWO new babies. It seems however, that all the preparation in the world doesn’t adequately get families ready…
Reading Time: 2 minutesDear New Twin Mama, Dear overwhelmed, frightened, excited, new twin mama. Congratulations, you survived! As you embark on the journey of parenting twins, take a minute to recognize the STRENGTH in yourself. You endured a twin pregnancy, and maybe had pregnancy complications or weeks and months with your babies living in the NICU. Regardless of your…
Reading Time: 3 minutesAdmit it, a time change + daylight savings is the last thing you want to deal with. You fear anything that may undo all the hard work you have put into getting your twins to consistently sleep through the night. And you NEVER deviate from their routine just so they continue to sleep like champions. Have…
Reading Time: 3 minutesIS nighttime with two babies and their sleep associations is sucking the life out of you? Every time you soothe one baby back to sleep, the other baby wakes, and it all just starts over again. And again… And again… Are you having to replace binkies, nurse your babies or rock them back to sleep hour after…
Reading Time: 3 minutesCouples dealing with infertility are often faced with long journeys in order to start or complete their families. Days are long, lonely and filled with anxiety ridden appointment and endless waiting. For my husband and I, surviving infertility meant that we had to believe that miracles really do happen. Besides the day that I said…
Reading Time: 5 minutesEvery expectant mom has dreams for the room where she will rock and nurture her bundle of joy. Designing the perfect twin nursery is one of the most important things that you will do to prepare for the birth of your twins – truth be told – it can be super intimidating just to get started. There is so…
Reading Time: 5 minutesBeing an organized mama is a must for any new twin mom! I am one of those people who lay in bed at 3 a.m. and make to-do lists. I need to check things off so I can see that I am being productive. After only a few weeks of being a twin mom, I…
Reading Time: 3 minutesEverything I have done to my body through this entire process has been a completely selfless act. From the minute I started taking Clomid, through the hundreds of injections, I was doing everything possible to get pregnant. There were endless tests, drugs, needles, you name it, it was not glamorous. In order for us to have a…