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How Sweet It Is

Easy Tips to Control Your Blood Sugar When You Have Gestational Diabetes

Allie Walld 2 weeks ago

While there are oh-so-many sweet things about being pregnant, the idea of having to possibly deal with gestational diabetes certainly isn't one of them. If you develop gestational diabetes, monitoring your blood glucose level multiple times each day can become a daunting but very important task. Developing diabetes while pregnant can lead to adverse perinatal outcomes, including...

Up Your Carving Game

These Tools Can Help You Create the Best Jack-o’-Lanterns on the Block

Allie Walld 1 month ago

Halloween is just around the corner! It's time to get creative. Carving the jack-o'-lantern is one of my favorite Halloween traditions. Sitting down with my family and collaborating on an idea for that year's pumpkin and then helping scoop out the "pumpkin guts" and watching as the jack-o'-lantern came to life with each carving pass my dad made was one of my highlights every Halloween...

What’s My Age Again?

Actual vs. Adjusted Age: Why Both are Tracked for Premature Babies

Allie Walld 1 month ago

Statistically speaking, pre-term birth is the outcome for approximately 55 percent of twin pregnancies (this number is between six and 10 percent for pregnancies with a single baby). Multiples who are born before 37 weeks' gestation are considered premature, while a full-term gestation period for a singleton pregnancy is 40 weeks. Most twins end up being delivered around the 36-week...

What Do We Need?

Creating an Amazon Baby Registry is as Easy as 1-2-3!

Allie Walld 2 months ago

Considering babies are so petite, they sure come with a shocking amount of paraphernalia. Just one baby requires almost more than you can carry, and when you're carrying twins, that amount basically doubles. You don't need two of absolutely everything, but you do need to double-up on most items. Luckily, we found out we were expecting twins before we bought everything we needed for...

And Stretch…

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...