10 Ways to help Mothers of Multiples (Part 2)

While I do believe it is extremely important for the village to step up and help mothers of all kinds, it is just as important for mothers to care for themselves, especially when they have multiples.
I’d been searching in my head for the longest time for the right way to describe how I’ve felt lately, [...]

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5 Ways to Help Moms of Multiples (Part I)

How do we do it?
Most of us do it without any help at all, but that’s not how most of us want it to be. Most of us thought people were going to come out of the woodwork to help us care for our darling multiple babies. Most of us thought people actually meant it [...]

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It’s MY Family Planning

Forgive me for re-hashing a topic that’s been covered here before. But as my pregnancy becomes more and more obvious to the general public, I’ve been put in a position I’ve never been put in before. I am having to defend my choice to have another child when I already have two children still in [...]

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The one comment I still hate to hear

I had a lightbulb moment when I wrote my rant about the “identical or fraternal” question. Reader Danielle’s comment made me realize when people say ask twin parents about zygosity, it may be a rhetorical question while attempting to show interest in twins. Face it, twins are very interesting to people. I found twins fascinating before I [...]

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Ettiquette Question

Okay folks, I know we have a regularly featured “Ask the Mom’s” segment every week, but this week, I have a question for you!

Picture me pulling my kiddos down the sidewalk (Today they turn 1! Happy Birthday Jonathan! Happy Birthday Faith!). They are in their choo choo wagon, and I am pointing out various trees, [...]

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