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How to Prevent Noticeable Stretch Marks When You're Pregnant with Multiples

Allie Walld 2 months ago

If you've been pregnant, currently are pregnant, or know someone who's been pregnant, you've likely heard about, or experienced, the stretch mark scarring that can develop as a result of a rapidly growing belly. This is because anywhere from 50 to 90 percent of people who are pregnant will develop stretch marks. But did you also know that stretch marks can appear due to rapid weight...

Mix and Stir!

Why the Magic Color Mixing Bowl is the Perfect Toy for Your Junior Bakers

Allie Walld 2 months ago

If you're looking for a recipe for fun, the Fisher Price Laugh & Learn Magic Color Mixing Bowl will yield exactly what you're hoping for. This light-up, musical baking set will get your twins excited about cooking and baking. It mixes early education and imaginary play with bright, interactive, sensory fun for toddlers and babies (six months and up). This mixing bowl toy comes...

I Could Eat

Make Snack Time a Breeze: The Easiest Recipe to Keep Your Toddlers Happy

Allie Walld 2 months ago

Any parent of small humans knows the importance of always having snacks on their person, in their bag—somewhere within near-immediate reach. Because any parent of small humans also knows there is a very small window in which you can go from having two, gleeful toddlers who are playing joyfully side-by-side to having two snacky crumb-detectors who are rapidly heading toward The Hangry...

What Are the Chances?

How Likely Am I to Have Identical Twins? This Kit Will Tell You

Allie Walld 2 months ago

August 27 is International Lottery Day, and when you find out you're expecting a baby and then—SURPRISE!—you find out it's actually twins, you may feel like you've won the lottery! I mean, what are the chances of having twins?! In Canada, approximately 1 in 31 births results in twins or higher-order multiples. In the United States, this statistic is almost the same, with about 32.1...

C’mon Kids…Let’s Motor

The Best Toys to Help Your Toddlers Develop Their Fine Motor Skills

Allie Walld 3 months ago

As your children grow and explore the world around themselves, their fine motor skills will develop and evolve. By exploring, understanding, and interacting with their surroundings, your toddlers can learn how things work and obtain the confidence and mobility skills needed to be self-sufficient one day. According to the Cleveland Clinic, "fine motor skills are the small, precise...

Have a Seat

Why This Potty Seat Deserves a Standing Ovation

Allie Walld 3 months ago

When you're ready to move your toddlers from their little potty training chairs to the big times—we're talkin' the BIG potty—the Munchkin Sturdy Potty Seat makes the transition a breeze. Something old, something new I remember being very excited when it was time to incorporate the potty training seat into our routine. I'd done a lot of research and checked out a bunch of options and...

Pump Pump Pump it Up!

Tips for Increasing Milk Output When You're Pumping Away From Your Twins

Allie Walld 3 months ago

There are many ways to feed your newborn twins. Some people strive to exclusively breastfeed their twins; others aren't able to or simply choose not to—for many reasons, and they will have put much thought into this decision. Or, it may have been entirely out of their hands. Perhaps their preemies were born early and weren't able to feed that way. Or maybe they needed to spend time...

Wish Granted

A Checklist of Everything You Need for Your Diaper Genie

Allie Walld 3 months ago

If you're a first-time parent or if it's been a while since you last had a newborn (or two), it can be hard to know where to begin and what all you need to get through those early days with your wee ones. One of the biggest things to tackle with any brand-new baby is diaper duty. Or in the case of you and your twins, dual diaper duty. Beyond your diaper of choice, your favorite brand...

Support in All the Right Places

Why This Tandem Nursing Pillow Gets Double the Love

Allie Walld 3 months ago

This week wrapped up another World Breastfeeding Week, which is held during the first week of August every year. Supported by the World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF, and many Ministries of Health and civil society partners, the theme for 2024 was Closing the Gap: Breastfeeding Support for All. One of the most effective ways to ensure the health of your newborns is to breastfeed...

Talk About Hair-Raising...

How to Bring Your Postpartum Hair Back From the Brink

Allie Walld 3 months ago

August is National Hair Loss Awareness Month. While that may be news to you, most new mothers are acutely aware of the fact that they're losing hair at a dreadfully alarming rate. Most women will experience postpartum hair loss at the end of "the fourth trimester," around that three-month postpartum mark, and this tumultuous time for your tresses can last up to six months. And while...

Plaaaaay Ball!

Why the Little Tikes TotSports T-Ball Set is a Homerun

Allie Walld 3 months ago

Angels in the Outfield. Field of Dreams. The Sandlot. Rookie of the Year. A League of Their Own. These are all baseball classics I can't wait to share with my twins, and I hope they love them as much as I do. Another All-Star classic? The TotSports T-Ball Set by Little Tikes. It's a hit. It's a catch. It's a steal. And it's something I don't have to wait until they're older to...

Look at the Time

Finding Time to Bond with Your Twins When Everything Takes Twice as Long

Allie Walld 4 months ago

Any parent knows all too well that time goes by so quickly. The early days with your newborn twins are filled with so many time-consuming, but necessary tasks. Washing and folding endless loads of laundry. Sterilizing a steady cycle of bottles and pump parts. Taking care of twice as many diaper changes. Feeding twice as many mouths. Cutting twice as many nails. Cleaning twice as...

Drool Happens

The Best Bibs to Keep Your Twins Comfortable & Dry While They're Teething

Allie Walld 4 months ago

When your babies get teething, the impending pools of drool can be relentless. You may notice your twins suddenly have irritated rashes with raised, red bumps or dry, chapped skin on their cheeks or necks. The best way to try to avoid these uncomfortable rashes from forming is to keep your little ones' cheeks, chin, and neck area dry. When they're producing puddles of saliva on the...

Fur Baby...Meet Human Baby

Five Tips for Introducing Your Pets to Your Newborn Twin Babies

Allie Walld 4 months ago

The months leading up to the arrival of your twins are filled with plenty of planning and, if you're me, several checklists of things that should be done to ideally promote smooth sailing in what we were expecting to be an exciting yet chaotic time filled with family firsts on a steep learning curve. One of the things on the Must Do list was preparing the four-legged members of our...

Chew-Chew-Choose This

Why We Love Munchkin’s Twisty Teether

Allie Walld 4 months ago

One of your babies' biggest discomforts in the first year will be the pain of their teeth coming in. Interestingly enough, some babies are actually born with their first teeth, but most babies start teething anywhere from three months of age, up to just after their first birthday, with the average age falling around six months old. Signs you may see of those first teeth coming in can...

Here Comes the Airplane

Five Tricks for Getting Your Finicky Twins to Finally Eat

Allie Walld 4 months ago

Whether it's breakfast, lunch, or dinner, chances are good that with two toddlers who are constantly growing (both their minds AND their independence, thank you very much) and expanding their palettes, you run into some form of resistance at some point in your day-to-day operations. Maybe breakfasts aren't so bad because they're the first meal of the day. But lunch and dinner could be...

What is That Thing?

Heel-Stick Calcinosis: What is This Hard White Bump & Should I be Worried?

Allie Walld 4 months ago

As you work on your list of questions for your twins' one-year check-up with their pediatrician, you're likely giving both of your sweet children thorough once-overs to think of anything you want to ask their doctor about. I did the same during the weeks before and after our guys' first birthday, going from head to foot. And when I got to the bottom of Baby A's foot, I noticed a...

Hulkin’ It

How to Safely Load & Unload Your Newborn Twins Into & Out of the Car Alone

Allie Walld 4 months ago

Having twins is magical and wonderful. You get to have double the fun and double the love. You also get double the work and twice as many challenges. Challenges that actually make you stop in your tracks and think because you have to run through the scenario in your mind first to make sure you know how to proceed safely. It sounds weird, but it's true. The last thing you want is to be...

Who's Hungry?

The Best Positions for Dual Feeds With Your Twins

Allie Walld 4 months ago

If you're about to welcome twins into your family, you're likely making sure your home is set up and ready to go as you embark on your journey to survive the newborn stage with multiples. You may also be wondering about the logistics of feeding sessions with two little babies. This could look different depending on how you're planning to feed your children. Will they be exclusively...

Dinner's Ready

Mealtime Melee: Table for Two vs. Graco Table2Table

Allie Walld 4 months ago

In the early days, it can be hard figuring out the logistics of feeding both of your babies simultaneously. If each parent is available to take on a baby, you're laughing. But when you're flying solo and have to manage dual feedings for two babies who are hungry at the exact same time, it can be tricky. You can only move so fast, and your little ones both want to be fed first–and they...

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