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Twins! What to do when your bundle of joy, turns out to be bundles of joy. Having twins can be a challenge for even the most organized parents. Any parent of multiples will tell you that often talking with another parent who's been there can help them get through the difficult times and cherish the moments that make twins "double the love.” Susan Heim, mother of twins, offers insight and advice that only a mother of multiples can. In this complete guide from infancy through the high-school years, you will find information you can use on topics ranging from breast-feeding versus bottle-feeding twins; how to deal with the jealousy of older siblings; and ensuring equal treatment of multiples while fostering individuality and combating competitiveness.
It"s Twins! Parent-to-Parent Advice from Infancy Through Adolescence is way ahead of all those “dry” parenting manuals. This book is loaded with chatty, bite-sized gems of real-world wisdom and experience from other moms and dads of multiples on the day-to-day path of childrearing. This guide provides tips for traveling with multiples, advice on potty-training twins, and skills for coping when twins have disabilities. Susan Heim offers informative and entertaining wisdom interspersed with Twins Trivia and Twins Tales, examples of real-life parenting of real-life twins. Vonetta Flowers, A mother of twins and the first African -American woman to win a gold medal in the Olympic Winter Games wrote the foreword and gives helpful tips. She says this of It’s Twins!: I believe that It’s Twins will serve as a wonderful training tool to help you understand the rules of the game, and will also serve as a personal coach that will help you face your toughest and most rewarding challenge….raising twins.
Did you know that the number of twins born in this country has increased by more than 50% since 1980 (Parents magazine, Feb. 2006). Did you know that women of “advanced maternal age” (over age thirty-five) are more likely to conceive twins? Or that women who already have children are more likely to have multiples? And that African-American women have a 1 in 79 chance of having twins, while Caucasian women have 1 chance out of 100, and Asian women have twins in only 1 in 155 pregnancies?
A former Senior Editor for the bestselling Chicken Soup for the Soul series, Susan Heim is the author of Twice the Love: Stories of Inspiration for Families of Twins, Multiples and Singletons (TWINS magazine, 2006, ISBN 1-891846-31-0) and co-author of Oh, Baby! 7 Ways a Baby Will Change Your Life the First Year (Hampton Roads, 2006, ISBN 1-57174-53-03). Susan is an expert on parenting multiples for ClubMom.com, and has written articles for many parenting magazines and websites.
March 2007 ● Parenting ● ISBN-1-57174-531-6 ● $17.95
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