Expecting a child is usually greeted with joy. Expecting TWO babies is usually greeted with panic. Across the world, twins happen to nearly 140,000 sets of parents every year.
One of those parents was Suzannah Peel, an investigative journalist. Less than a year later, she and her husband had a third child. But Peel says as difficult as it was keeping up with three children under 16 months of age, it was a cakewalk compared to her year of caring for two at once.
Mrs. Peel dutifully tried to prepare herself by consulting the right child care books, but only a few were truly written with parents of twins in mind. Besides, once they were born, she didn’t have time to read them anyway. So she conceived something else: the e-book Twins! A Survival Guide.
Through research, personal experience, and a whopping dose of humor, Peel has produced yet another small miracle. Mindful that for mothers of twins, curling up with a good book is at least a decade away, Peel has compiled dozens upon dozens of easily accessible tips and strategies for managing life with twins.
No subject is too inane: how to ask for help, how to optimize your sleeping time[spin], how to manage outings from [spin] jaunts to the supermarket to plane trips. Peel strongly urges that all parents of twins get Internet and cable access if they don’t have it already: it serves as a source of entertainment during those night feedings, provides instant at-home shopping, and can connect them to support groups tailor-made for parents of twins.
Equally important, Peel also confronts the psychological and personal aspects of twin parenthood She notes that post-partum depression is twice as prevalent among mothers of twins, but reassures, “Many days I got so wound up because I felt I wasn’t doing it right…I wish I had patted myself on the back just for doing it.” And she has very sage counsel for fathers of twins: get as much initial paternity leave as possible, and “if things get stressful, refrain from telling her to calm down unless you fancy wearing a dirty (diaper).”
Peel’s support and advice are arranged in an easy-to-read index. The book can be read from cover to cover it there’s time, or you can drill down to the information you need, even to timing the birth of your next baby!
Twins! A Survival Guide can be ordered from http:/www.rocktivity.com/for-parents-of-twins. If you’re expecting twins, it’s never too soon to start reading it. And if you’re a relative, neighbor, friend, or co-worker of someone who has or is expecting twins, it’s the next best gift for parents of twins to babysitting.
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