Author: Belinda Smith Without a doubt one of the hardest times as a parent is the newborn phase. Trying to work out what this little bundle of joy needs whilst also functioning as a fully fledged member of society – all on no sleep- is tricky to say the least. As brand new parents, fresh […]
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Going out in public with twins, triplets or more
Author: Belinda Smith Unless you are an A list celebrity, nothing can prepare you for the attention and infamy that multiples will attract when you are out and about in public. People in general see more than one baby at a time and lose their collective minds. I personally have had people follow me down […]
Toilet Training Triplets – Tips and tricks from a triplet Mum
Author: Belinda Smith I remember thinking early on in our multiple birth journey that there would be two milestones the babies were going to achieve that would be the most taxing on us as their parents – that being toilet training and learning to drive. Now my trio have only just turned 7 so stay […]
Separating triplets at school
Author: Belinda Smith There are decisions that we as parents of multiples make that parents of singletons never have to grapple with. One that garners many a heated discussion is that of separating or splitting up our multiples when they start school. I have seen many multiple birth Facebook groups asking the same questions – “Do I keep them together? Do I separate? What […]
Triplets born at 27 weeks
Author: Belinda Smith Falling pregnant naturally with identical triplets was of course never part of our plan! We ‘discovered’ our little bundles at the first scan (13 weeks) leaving us very little time to adjust to the news and accept how different our life was about to become. Of course we knew that being triplets […]
Purchasing our car for triplets | Three across the back
Author: Belinda Smith When I found out I was pregnant I was driving a single cab Proton Jumbuck Ute! Great for transporting my dogs but definitely not a car you would find in the family garage! Looking at our finances we decided we could comfortably afford something like a small SUV. This is of course […]
Finding out we were pregnant with identical triplets
Author: Belinda Smith “There’s definitely two but I think there’s three.” The sentence that changed our lives! This was how we found out we were having multiples. I was lying on the bed at the clinic for our first scan and it took the sonographer all of two minutes to say these words. The old […]