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Just Keep Swimming
Water Safety: Everything You Need When Your Twins Start Swimming Lessons
When it comes to having twins, there's mention of twice the diapers, twice the work, double the giggles, and double the love, but one thing that doesn't really come up are the challenges that come when you have to sign up multiple children for the same activity at the same time. Sometimes, it's not an issue. But when there are limited spaces available, and you have twins, you suddenly...
Taking Turns
Use This Simple Trick to Get Your Twins to Share The Toys They Fight Over
Being a twin means having to share things from an early age. A womb. Parents' attention. Favorite toys. When they're babies, they just go with the flow, but as they get older, the constant need to share can get frustrating, especially when they're still learning how to navigate their big feelings. As a twin myself AND a mom of twin toddlers, I can tell you this is true. There...
Taco Tuesday
When Cinco De Mayo Falls on Taco Tuesday: The Best Recipe for Chicken Tacos
When Cinco de Mayo falls on Taco Tuesday, you KNOW what's on the menu. You should probably have tacos because the next time May 5 lands on a Tuesday won't be until 2037. For real. Instead of being just six years away, the Leap Year pushes this phenomenon 11 years into the future. To celebrate the momentous timing of Cinco de Mayo falling on Taco Tuesday, here's one of our favorite...
Share the Love
Mom-Approved: 40 Mother’s Day Gift Ideas for the Lovely Ladies in Your Life
Moms. They work tirelessly (even though they're usually very tired) to keep things running like a well-oiled machine. Driving children here and there to appointments or practices. Prepping meals and snacks for two little tummies all week long. Spot-treating and washing neverending loads of laundry. If you want to give back to the mother figure in your life, here are 40 mom-approved...
The Cortisol Curve
When Stress Levels Don't Drop During the Day, it Can Impact Your Health
If you've welcomed your offspring into this world, you've likely heard of a non-stress test, which is done during the third trimester and monitors both fetal heart rates and their reaction to movement to make sure your babies are getting enough oxygen. The non-stress test is a very important, non-invasive screening done for high-risk pregnancies. After your babies are born, the other...
At Home or On the Go
Stop Hanger (Times Two) in its Tracks with These Perfect Snack Packs
The only thing that can derail a day faster than a suddenly-hungry toddler is two suddenly-hungry toddlers. When those moments strike without warning, you have very limited time to defuse the situation. This usually requires some serious snack-slingin' skills. Your best bet is to have mini morsels at the-ready at all times. Your best bet is to have mini morsels at the-ready at...
Indoor Active Play
All About Balance: This Modular Sensory Set Brings the Playground Indoors
Just because you're playing indoors doesn't mean you can't be active. While you might not want your twins running laps—in opposite directions—at ultra-fast toddler speed, it doesn't mean they can't work out their muscles, and their minds, while they play. This fabulously fun sensory set allows you to bring the playground indoors—and build it however you see fit. Simple versatility...
Round & Round
Three Tummy Time Toys to Help Improve Flat Spots on Your Twin Babies’ Heads
Twins, especially those who are born prematurely, are more likely to have a flat spot on their head. This is called flat head syndrome, and it can happen for three reasons: Premature babies' skulls are softer when they're born; They may spend lots of time on their backs if they have a long medical stay in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU); and They can be born with flat spots...
Notes from the Future
The Adult Twin Bond: Twins by Chance, Friends by Choice
If you're a parent of twins and you've tried to go to the grocery store or run some errands with your doubles in tow, you probably understand the reactions people have when they run into you "in the wild." They always do a double-take. Their eyes go wide. And they inch closer. There's just something about twins; seeing two people who look the same standing side by side—or sitting two-...
Stay Hydrated
Keeping Your Kids Quenched: How Much Water They Should Drink in a Day
Hydration is crucial to keeping your kids healthy. In the summer months, when it's hot out, it's easy to remember to keep everybody hydrated. But drinking water should be on a parent's mind every day, no matter what season it is or what the weather's like. Breastmilk and / or baby formula should be your babies' only source of hydration until they're six months old, but once they're six...
A New Playground
Watch, Learn, Play: Netflix Launches Playground App for Games
Is there anything better than a new playground? If you're a toddler, the answer is definitely not. When every day feels like it's, "Go, go, go," parents hope that, even with busy schedules, their kids are entertained, engaged, and enriched, even if it means there's no time to hit up their favorite playground. But there's a new playground in town. In an effort to make Netflix a curated...
Perfect Pastels
How to Dye Easter Eggs Like a Pro—with Stuff You Already Have at Home
Easter. A time when we see perfect pastels and delightful designs displayed on exquisite eggs. While there are, without a doubt, some incredibly intricate eggs (Pysanky) that we could never attempt to do at home (at least, not with twin toddlers), there's a super easy way to dye Easter eggs at home with your kids that hardly makes any mess at all. It's so easy, in fact, that I...
Countdown to Better Sleep
How to Help Your Twins Understand When it’s Actually Time to Get Out of Bed
If you've ever heard an unexpected sound and hurried to check your baby monitor, only to discover you still have two sleeping angels and that nobody has to be lulled back to sleep, you're likely running on little sleep as it is. Then, there are the times where you check the monitor and one of your twins isn't where they're supposed to be. When one of them comes running out of their...
Superior Strollers
Four Reasons Why a Side-by-Side Double Stroller is Better than a Tandem One
The miracle of life is magnificent. It can also be mind-blowing, especially if you find out you have more than one baby on the way. While you don't have a choice about how many babies your doctor might find growing in your tummy at your ultrasound, you DO have lots of choices to make after you find out you're expecting twins. While you probably didn't expect to get surprised (and...
Monitoring Symptoms
Cold? Flu? RSV? What to Watch For & When to Take Your Preemie to the ER
As a parent, you never want to see your kids feeling unwell. Beyond hoping the illness doesn't make its way through your entire household, dragging you down, one by one, you hope they're able to get over it relatively easily and, ideally, without medical intervention. Like clockwork, flu and RSV seasons seem to run rampant from late fall to early spring, with the worst of it peaking...