Last week I attended a luncheon and amongst the 15 or 20 parents in attendance, four had twins!
I know there’s more to having twins than buying cute onesies that say “stop copying me!” so I asked Laura C, who is the photographer of the above picture and the mother of the twin boys in the photo, to help me with this post. And voila! Here are some resources to pass around.
How Do You Do It? This blog offers lots of good twin-specific advice, like how do you bottle-feed two babies at the same time; breastfeeding multiples; common twin medical stuff like speech delays, developmental delays, reflux; getting out of the house with two babies, and more. Take special note of the post on advice for expectant parents of twins. So much of the good stuff is in the comments.
[tub time with andy and will of the lyon pride]
Twin parent bloggers Here’s a short list of blogs that include twins in the family, divided into two categories:
Folks who actually talk about their twins: Nonlinear Girl, Laura’s Mommy Journal, Double the Fun, TwinDadBlog, Bekki and Adam of Lyon Pride, and Rhode Family SF.
Lifestyle blogs written by people who happen to have twins: Picnic, Techmamas, Garza Girls, Me Too You, The City Cradle, and Cooks, Interrupted. Here’s an extremely long twinsie blogroll at You’ve got your hands full.
[photo of lisa’s twin-swollen belly by jackie]
One more great-looking site I found: Multiples and More A site packed with info and book reviews, this site maintains a sidebar that categorizes other blogs into expectant parents, twin parents, triplets, quads, and preemies, so if you are hungering to follow along with someone who is sharing your experience, look here.
Are you the parent of multiples? Feel free to add more great resources, websites, tips and blogs in the comments!
Love your post and blog! 🙂
I’m a parent of nearly 7 year old twins and I still get twitchy when I think about those first 6 weeks; it was rough. Luckily, I found a message board run by Twins Magazine and that resource became “The Oracle” in our household. To be able to post at 3 A.M. about some-seemingly-but-not-life-threatening-infant-question and quickly read the hard-won wisdom of numerous twin parents was partly what got me through those early weeks and months.
I don’t know if it is still the resource that it was for me back then but it’s probably worth a try at 3 A.M.:
http://forum.twinsmagazine.com/
Another resource I’d recommend is the work of Dr. Joan A. Friedman around the healthy emotional development of twins.
http://emotionallyhealthytwinsblog.com/
Thanks for this post.
Awwwwwww, cute pics!!! I love the line, “more to having twins than buying cute onesies that say ‘Stop copying me!'” Yes there is, but the onesies are fun. 🙂 Someone got me onesies that said “Frick” and “Frack” in orange. It was hilarious when one baby would be wearing the “frick” onesie and the other one had spit up on his so he wasn’t wearing the “frack” one. I got some very odd comments when I took the babies to Target while Gabe was wearing “Frick”. LOL!
oh and the How do you do it? blog was a fantastic resource when I was pregnant w/ my twins and during their first two years of life!
Thanks for the HDYDI shout-out! I started that blog when my babies were six months old, because I wanted one central place to find a bunch of posts by twin moms. It makes me so happy that people find it useful!
I’ve also been blogging since the very beginning of my pregnancy at Goddess in Progress. Now my twins are three, and have a little sister on the way! It just keeps getting wilder…
A number of friends (or friends of friends, or cousins of friends) have been getting pregnant with twins recently, and asking for pointers. How nice to have a nice concise list of resources to send them!
Another good resource is http://multiples.about.com/. The guide, Pamela, has older twins, but she keeps her thumb on issues specific to raising little multiples too.
How about http://www.twin-pregnancy-and-beyond.com/ That website has some good information about “gear” you might need and a bunch of other little things. Granted, it’s not the best website out there, but it really helped me when I couldn’t find much else on twins.
I’m going to check out HDYDI right now!
three cheers for twins!
Thanks so much for including me on your list:) I do have a family blog where I talk about the twins as well, although much less now that they are turning into actual people- crazy how our babies do that!
Thanks for the great resources! I noticed you didn’t have much for dads. My blog, dadsguidetotwins.com helps fathers of twins overcome the challenges of having and raising twins.
Cheers,
Joe