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Features

February 13, 2008 by Goddess in Progress

Regular Features on How Do You Do It?

Ask the Multiple Moms (Wednesdays)

Have a question about life with multiples? Wonder how to get through airport security, feed two at once, or just plain get out of the house? Use the comments below to ask your burning questions, and every week we’ll pick a topic and compile our responses.

Foodie Fridays

Ah, feeding our children. A constantly evolving ~~challenge~~ joy, from their first hours through teenage years. On Fridays here at How Do You Do It?, we’ll discuss food-related topics. Something you want us to talk about? Ask in the comments!

Product Reviews (Weekends)

Babies seem to come with or require a lot of stuff. Multiple babies mean even more stuff (though not always two of everything!), so we need to be even pickier about what we need and what we don’t, what works and what doesn’t. Every weekend we’ll tell you what real moms think of something “they” say you must have.

14 Responses to “Features”

on February 22, 2008 at 4:03 pm1 Christina of The Twin Set Moms

Hi Ladies. You tell it like it is, are hilarious and helpful. What a perfect combination for us bleary-eyed moms of multiples. Keep up the awesome work. As you know, moms of multiples work their butts off every day caring for their twins and we need to support each other. Do me a huge favor and check out the blog I’ve been writing with my buddy. We are at twinsetmoms.com. Our blog isn’t as cool as yours because we’ve mostly been focusing our attention on this book we wrote about caring for young twins. The book is going to rock because it includes strategies and anecdotes from moms of multiples all over the country. It was a ton of work for us to write a survey, post in on line, field the results and incorporate them into our book, but the result will truly be helpful to future moms of multiples. The book, Twin Set, comes out in July 2008. We can’t wait to share it with amazing moms like you. Thanks for being so cool. Your fan, Christina
on February 22, 2008 at 4:04 pm2 Christina of The Twin Set Moms

p.s. We’d be honored if you could put our blog on your blog roll. When we figure out how to do ours, we will reciprocate, of course!!! Thanks. Christina
on February 24, 2008 at 4:21 pm3 Heather

Hey all if you need another moms input let me know, cuz we all know that there is NEVER enough advise out there.
on March 19, 2008 at 2:58 pm4 Amanda

The question I keep thinking about is my babies are only about 5 months old right now, I keep thinking to myself how am i going to do this when they are in the stage of crawling and the beginnings of walking? And when they are out of their infant car seats!?! My double stroller is a life saver but i dont always bring that everywhere!! How do you get around at stores in the shopping cart? Its not like you can walk into the store with two on your hips……… can you? It just seems like a nightmare to even go anywhere at that age! Please prove me wrong! : )
on March 28, 2008 at 2:46 am5 Jaya

Having twin girls, who’ve just turned one, I felt at sea most of the time. The early months are a blur, where I managed to lose touch with work buddies and the outside world!

Since my hubby, K, travels a lot on work I have had to take on the responsibility of parenting both kids. I must confess, I feel overwhelmed most of the time.

So as of now I spend my 15 minutes of free ‘me’ time reading this great blog. Thanks for voicing concerns and making this journey of motherhood a wee-bit more entertaining.

As for your segment, “Ask the Multiple Moms,” I have a question.
My daughter, Chellu, has been waking up nearly every second night, screaming as if in pain. The doctor says, it’s night time terrors. A term that did little to make the problem go away. He says it will stop on its own. But it is going to be a month and my little girl continues to wake up crying. I have tried rocking her, carrying her and walking, but none of this helps. I even tried to wake her up, switching on the lights in the room, but the screaming doesn’t seem to stop. During the day, she seems fine and even naps well. Any suggestions would be welcome at this point because I’m functioning on very little sleep and running out of patience.
on April 2, 2008 at 7:07 pm6 Annie

Question from a mom of triplets–
At what age have you started bathing the kids together?
Right now, I currently bathe each one (11months old) at a time in one of those inflatable tubs while my DH watches/playes with the other 2 in another room.
What is a good age when they are not so darn slippery and 2 (or in my case 3) can be in a bath together and enjoy it (and I don’t have to worry about scary drowning issues!)
Thanks so much!
on April 7, 2008 at 3:44 pm7 Jessica

Hello fellow MOM’s! It’s been great reading all perspectives. I am a first time mom to 14 month old b/g twins. And, I have a question!

We are working towards saying ‘buh bye’ to our plugs, pacis, nuks, whatever the word of the day is. At this point, nap time and bed time is the only time they are used. We realize that this in and of itself is a big accomplishment.

Here is the problem.

Any given night, at least one is going to wake up crying for some reason or another. I, needing my beauty sleep, go on pluggy patrol. Find the pluggy as quick as I can, and insert into mouth as quick as I can. Sleepy time continues. Sounds good to me.

Not to dear husband. He thinks we’re giving in to a bigger issue. We should let them cry it out and learn to soothe themselves. Fine by me. BUT, they share a room. And I don’t plan on changing that anytime soon. So, if I let one cry it out, I’m sure the other will wake up, and we’ll have two little ones ‘crying it out.’

Any suggestions?

Thank you!
on April 10, 2008 at 1:33 am8 lyna

i’ve a question, it may be a bit off-topic because it concerns my eldest daughter, not my twins, but i’m sure all parents face this problem.

my daughter is almost 3 1/2 yrs old, and she’s not potty trained yet. i tried a few times, and sometimes she succesfully ‘goes’ in the potty. she gives up so easily though, because everytime she has an accident she will insist on putting on her nappy back. the longest we manage to keep her off her nappy is half a day. she’s not all to be blamed though, i’m guilty as well. sometimes i’m just too lazy to deal with it that i keep putting it off. especially when i’m busy with the twins or anything else. i’m also dreading when the time comes to potty train the twins!

seriously, potty training is the most difficult part of parenting i’ve had so far. so please, help!
on April 10, 2008 at 2:57 pm9 Betsy

Here’s my question: my twins are newly mobile and their sister (a mere 18 months older) is suddenly VERY territorial. I’d expect that, I suppose, but I’m wondering if any of you have any advice on how to encourage the singleton sibling to share while at the same time recognizing that two against one is hard to deal with. Any thoughts?
on May 2, 2008 at 12:14 pm10 Tricia

I was wondering if any of you have tried to tackle the topic of post-partum depression in any of your posts or blogs? I remember reading a statistic that MoM, for various reasons, sometimes have a higher rate of PPD than singletons do. Have any of you experienced this, if so to what extent and how did you get help? This would be excellent advice for expecting/pregnant MoM or new MoM with newborns. Its such a serious, potentially dangerous problem that needs more support from all of us mothers, particuliarly MoM. Thanks!
on May 4, 2008 at 10:00 pm11 courtney

Hi, I really enjoy this site…you guys are doing a great job! My question is a very much “How do you do it”. I have an almost 5 year old, almost 3 year old, and 7 month old twins. The last 7 months have been the hardest in my life so far. I feel like there is never enough time in the day. How do you find time for every one? I feel like I’m spread so thin, anyone else feel this way? And most recently our biggest problem is sleeping. For almost two months we’ve been trying to get the twins to sleep in their own beds. We’ve got the going down part, but the staying asleep part is not going well. They wake every 2 1/2 to 3 hours. We’ve let them cry, fed them more, and given them motrin (teething). Nothing is working. We are so sleep deprived I’m considering quiting nursing and starting formula. Did anyone else ever go through this? How did you make through? Any advice/tips/pointers would be awesome!
Thanks
Courtney
on May 7, 2008 at 4:36 pm12 courtney

Oh and I would also be honored if I made your blog roll

Thanks
Courtney
on May 7, 2008 at 9:49 pm13 Emma

2 QUESTIONS FOR ASK THE MOMS SECTION

1. What is a twin Csection like (the actual surgery and recovery)? I think a lot of pregnant moms read this and I can’t find any good info on what it’s like.

2. Along the same lines - what to expect in the first 1 or 2 months with twins, specifically if you bring them home and they aren’t in the NICU?
on May 11, 2008 at 9:58 am14 Susan D.

Questions for the Moms - As a mom of twins to be, we are on the hunt for a new car. I currently drive a small sedan and even at 5′3″, I cannot drive comfortably with a car seat behind me. My husband who is 6′1″ couldn’t even get in the car.

With gas prices high and the thought of paying for 2 childcare tuitions soon, we are trying to be thrifty on the price of the car and have mainly looked at used but reliable wagons and smaller suv’s. I really don’t want to go the minivan stage at this point.

Any recommendations on what has worked for you? Many thanks and Happy Mother’s Day!