This week Nix and Naomi chat the Amber from Nest Therapy.
Amber is a multi-mum and a speech therapist who is answering all the questions on what you should be looking for in speech delays, your first steps, and ongoing support.
The ladies share their stories of common and less common speech delays in multiples.
Naomi is joined by Angelique, who is a big sister to identical twin brothers. She shares with us what it was like growing up with them.
Angelique has designed some products that are focused on nighttime bed wetting, and we deep dive into the nitty gritty of night time bed wetting. We chat about the cues that indicate your kids are ready and the products that will make your night time toileting journey easier.
You can find out more about Angelique’s products at The Midnight Gang
After having your babies and bringing them home, your life will have changed a lot. There are a bunch of new routines to learn, different priorities and then there is the lack of sleep. So much lost sleep!
The first few months at home with your babies can be rocky as you are settling into the new routine and change of lifestyle. There may be times when your relationship feels like it is also changing.
Does it every feel like your relationship changed in the months after bringing your babies home? Did things get better or worse with your partner? A changing relationship after having twins or triplets can happen for a number of reasons.
Tassie-based twin mum Tegan is joining Nix and Naomi to discuss her twin journey.
From a battle with endometriosis to a NICU journey Tegan tells all including the moment her twins went viral online.
Now with a large social following, Tegan continues to share the moments of her twin’s lives, even as a busy mum working full time!
Starting solids with twins or triplets is a exciting milestone. It is a time where you can start introducing your babies to different textures, flavours and help them to build different skills. Learning how to hold different foods, learn the skills around eating and give them some independence.
Deciding when to start solids can be a confusing time. There is a lot of different information and recommendations that you will see – some times it is hard to know what to follow.
Here are a few tips we have for starting solids with twins or triplets.
This week Nix and Naomi are talking to soon-to-be twin mum Samantha.
While navigating life with a toddler, Samantha is pregnant with twins and the ladies are catching up to find out how she is progressing with her pregnancy.
Samantha has been catching up on the podcasts while pregnant and take Nix and Naomi down memory lane!
Author: Abbey Free
As I lay in bed, I find my mind race I’m exhausted by life being so fast pace But when it slows down, even for a day I find myself not even wanting it that way Being a mum, comes wherever you go… Even at night when times running slow You want to switch off, you want to have a break But you’re minds always going, how much more can I take But then when you wake up and your kids smile at you You know there’s nothing in the world you’d rather do Times goes by so incredibly fast & you start to realise this time doesn’t last In the blink of an eye your baby is gone And then the next stage, well it doesn’t last long You want to soak it all in, and enjoy every day But there’s lots said in society that get in your way
We always talk being a twin parent…but what’s it like being a twin? Ever wondered what your multiples are going through? How do they feel about being a twin and are they really thinking the same things?
This episode, Nix and Naomi are chatting to Soph and Bridget aka the Wildlife Twins.
Hear their hilarious stories of growing up as twins, find out how they felt about being linked together, how they handled the competition and growing up in each others pockets and how even when they drifted apart they came back together to build a successful business together.
WARNING: this podcast discusses the loss of a twin
This week, Nix and Naomi chat to super mum Amie Rohan who shares the story of discovering one of her twins had a fatal neural tube defect in utero.
Holding nothing back in this powerful discussion Amie shares everything from finding out she was pregnant with twins, being given the devastating news, to carrying and both her twins and having to say goodbye to her precious Willow.
Amie is an inspiring Mum of 2 who is a mental health and child loss awareness advocate and is also the founder of Angel Tutu Dress.
Author: Kara Lambert
When I found out I was pregnant with twins at my dating scan, I was both excited and terrified. My previous two babies were born early (at 34-35 weeks) following premature rupture of membranes and both required some weeks in NICU/special care, so I knew there would be even a higher risk of preterm birth with twins. My second baby in particular was a fast labour, and both times my waters broke spontaneously out of the blue, so I’d pretty much been waiting for this to happen with the twins at any time. I spent a lot of my twin pregnancy anxious, googling outcomes of babies born very preterm!
My first two babies were both born vaginally, and my private OB and I had previously had discussions about trying for a vaginal birth with the twins (which I wanted), but I was advised I would need an epidural in case twin 2 needed help birthing or moved around in my uterus after twin 1 was born. I was ok with that, given I wanted to avoid a c-section if possible. Luckily both twins were head down from about 28 weeks which made attempting a vaginal birth with twins possible.
