How many of us share a birthday with someone else in the family? Although I do know a few families where parent and child share the same birthday, its actually pretty rare isn’t it? We usually have an opportunity to be ‘ king or queen’ for a day each year and enjoy presents and a Continue Reading
Tips on Raising Twins: The Strategic Approach
The knowledge that you are carrying twins can be quite overwhelming. We were fortunate in that we had one child already so we not going to be first time parents as well as first time parents of twins!!! But of course that meant that our family was expanding from 3 to 5 people in one Continue Reading
Tips on Raising Twins: Feeding
I started writing about raising twins a few months ago and was overwhelmed with memories – many great ones but also some that took me back to a dark place. Why? Well lets be honest, those first few months of looking after a new baby or babies is not all roses and sunshine!!! Lack of Continue Reading
Tips on Raising Twins: Struggles During the First 12 months
Even though I gave birth to twins 28 years ago it is amazing how much I remember of the very early days. It really does seem like yesterday. We have photos of all of our children in our hall and sometimes when I stop and look at the photos of them when they were 3-4 Continue Reading