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What Lactation Consultants Should be Teaching at Breastfeeding Classes

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I am very appreciative of all the comments and shares that my previous post 11 Common Breastfeeding Myths and Lies received. Many were grateful that I was sharing the "truth." Because, the truth of the matter is many moms have heard those well-meaning lies from doctors, nurses, lactation consultants, and even friends and family. Breastfeeding is ...

Breastfeeding hurts!: Uncovering 11 Breastfeeding Myths and Lies

I breastfeed my children. I breastfed my twins for 13 months. Currently I am exclusively breastfeeding my 10 month old son and plan to continue nursing him for several months still to come. And I love it! I think breastfeeding is better than formula (though I am not anti-formula at all. I supplemented my twins with formula), and love the close bond ...

How to Afford Twins Theme Week

I am so very excited! This week, Sunday, September 22 to Saturday, September 28 I have organized a money-saving theme week on How Do You Do It? a mothers of multiples blog that I contribute for. It became clear that many of the writers for this blog were passionate about ways to make ends meet, especially as they had to find ways to afford twins, ...

The On and Off Terrible Threes

It isn't every day, or all day, but they strike. And they strike with a terrible fury. They are the terrible threes. And they've gotten a hold of my daughter Alison. And they are either on or off. Some days Alison is a perfect, sweet, helpful, funny, happy child, obeying orders and not throwing much of a fit about anything. But then the ...

Twin Advantage – Best Friends and Playmates!

I am posting again this morning over at How Do You Do It? But, today I am posting about the awesome twin bond, twin connection that my girls and many twins share! And I have to say this ultra special sibling connection is one of the greatest blessings and advantages about having twins. While twins are especially demanding in the first year or ...

Mom Twins – A Story of TWIN Coincidences

Today I am writing over at How Do You Do It? and I am writing about a very rare and awesome thing I experienced while pregnant - a friend who's life was paralleling my very own when I was. Here's a snip of it:My husband and I were still in college when we were expecting. We were active in our church congregation where we also learned that another ...

Parenting a Single Baby After Twins

I wrote a post for How Do You Do It? yesterday and would like to share it with you all. Here's a snippet:.... I looked at an old blog post I had written when my twin daughters were two months old.... And reading that post made me realize just how different my postpartum experiences have been.With the girls, I was recovering from major surgery for ...

Twin VS Singleton Pregnancy Belly, Symptoms & More

Have you ever wondered how it feels different to be pregnant with twins that with just one? I've experienced both kinds of pregnancies and births and this is my story. I'll share all my memories of twin vs singleton pregnancy belly as well as the different symptoms I felt. Being Pregnant with One After A Twin Pregnancy I had twins ...

Twins’ Animal Themed Third Birthday Party

Our twin girls turned three and we wanted to have a party for their third birthday with some of their friends (and ours too!). We invited four families and their grandparents over to our small apartment to a birthday party. It had both zoo animals and farm animals as part of an animal themed party. I searched the internet, mostly via ...

How I Get Twins to Sleep During Nap Time Without Destroying Their Room

We changed Lisa over to a toddler bed about a month ago now and along with it came some other changes. They included my daughters playing for longer and more chaotic periods of time before falling asleep at nap time and bedtime, if at all at nap time. And because they fell asleep so late from their naps, they were often crabby upon ...

The Honest Truth: Parenting Twins is Hard

Everyone told me that parenting twins is hard when I found out I was having twins half-way through my first pregnancy. And I knew they were probably telling the truth. But, as a new mother, I didn't have anything to compare having twins to - I have never had a single baby. I guess for a long time you're really just in survival mode. You just do ...

When Your Twins Personalities Are Different at Home from in Public

Our girls are crazy. And I should've known they'd be since, well, Josh and I are their parents.Our girls love to sing and jump and play. They scream for fun. They try to out-scream each other, and scream so hard they shake. They think it's hilarious. And they have done this for a very long time. I guess when you're raising two girls, you ...