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Author: Laura Wilson

The first year of your babies’ life you’re navigating your new life and then all of a sudden, it’s your twins first birthday and you’re thinking what do you even get one year olds. There’s always somebody in your circle who tells you they don’t need anything or they won’t remember the day anyhow. But you want to celebrate, especially having multiples, it’s a huge achievement to reach one! 

I started counting down to our twins first birthday from 12 days postpartum!

From 12 days postpartum, I’ve been counting down to reaching one year. I’m the type of person who really likes to focus on goals and achieving those goals. And having the goal of reaching one has been good for my mental headspace. But for the past six months, I’ve been trying to navigate what to do when we did reach one year old. I’d always appreciate connecting with other mum’s with babies of similar age to see what they were doing and throw around ideas. So I’m writing this article to share how I navigated my twin’s first birthday in the hope that it might just help you do so too. 

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 escalators, through shops and even out to my car just to get a look at three babies at once.

I am sure many of you reading this have experienced all the different scenarios from staring, whispers and sideways glances, to the people bold enough to come up and ask questions/give opinions/give advice (most of which is not helpful in the multiples world as we all know!).

Author: Stephanie Ernst

Did you know that being raised bilingual can give you an advantage? Studies have shown that children exposed to two languages from birth have an advantage in concentration in school, as well as helping them with language development.

In our house, we have 2 dominant languages (Dutch and English), and a third (German) that comes out at family gatherings. We chose to raise our twins in Dutch and English. We put a lot of research into how we would do this, and in this article, I wanted to share some of the tips and tricks we learned, as well as try to work through some of the myths you might face.

Author: Anonymous

They say it takes a village.  But what do you do when your family don’t seem to be interested in helping with your twins.

If there’s one piece of advice you’ll hear a thousand times as a parent-to-be, it’s this: accept all offers of help!  Even more so when you’re expecting multiples.  And it’s good advice. The ability to ask for help, and accept help when it’s offered, is a major life skill.  Babies are a 24/7 job, and it makes perfect sense to get as much help as you can.

“Do you have family nearby?”

In amongst all the usual questions people ask when they find out you’re pregnant with twins, one question I was asked a lot was “do you have family nearby?”

The answer was yes – most of my immediate family, and my husband’s family, live locally.  But it’s so hard to explain to a work acquaintance, or ultrasound tech, that having family nearby didn’t mean we were expecting any help with our babies.  Because when we had our eldest child, we discovered our families really weren’t interested in helping out. All that great advice about asking for, and accepting help, didn’t do us a lick of good. We tried! We really did. But the help just wasn’t there.

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