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What the Parenting Books Don’t Tell You

There are some very good books around for parenting multiples, but what about the bits they leave out ? When we ran a writing competition asking you to tell us what you wish you’d known but didn’t, we were inundated with responses. Here are a few of the fantastic entries :     What The […]

How to Cope During the First 12 Months

Having twins, triplets or more is a wonderful but exhausting experience.   For the first year you may feel like you are lurching from one day of feeding, changing, winding, and more nappy changing to the next. The only way to make sense of the chaos is to organise yourself. Try and establish a routine […]

Tales of Potty Training

We’ve had many posts on our forums about potty training over the years here at Twinsclub, and some great advice and top tips have surfaced. We’ve put together a few of our members recollections to help you with this seemingly monumental task. Take heart though, it’s often a lot worse than you think it’s going […]

Potty Training Twins/Triplets

by Linda Jones The thought of toilet training twins, triplets or more is enough to panic even the most laid-back of parents. I approached this parenting milestone with a heavy heart – fearful of the ensuing chaos and mess. Horror stories I had heard about twins tipping used potties over each other’s heads catapulted around my brain. […]

Kathie

My birth story… by Kathie In August 2007 I had just started a new job after moving home, I’d only been there 2 weeks when I found out I was pregnant. This came as a total shock to me – I was 36 and had 2 children aged 7 and 3 and was definitely not […]

Chris

Twin Dad birth story. There are some moments in your life you never forget. Here is the story of how Lucy and Luke came into the world – as seen from Daddy’s eye’s. At around 6 months I’d been relegated to the sofa league as the “bed wasn’t big enough for the both of us”. This […]

PUPP – Itching during pregnancy..

Pupp – an itchy skin condition which appears in pregnancy. What is it ?: PUPP stands for pruritic (itch) urticarial (like ‘hives’) papules (red pimples) and plaques (irritable flakes) of pregnancy. Some women develop itchy red bumps and welts on their bellies in the second half of pregnancy, usually in the last month or two. […]