Expecting a baby 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 and editor. Less than a year later, she and her doctor 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 baby books, but only a few were truly written with twins in mind. Besides, once the twins were born, she didn't have time to read them anyway. So she conceived something else: the ebook Twins! A Survival Guide.
Through research, a lot of trial and error, and a liberal topping of humor, Peel has produced yet another small miracle. Mindful that for parents of twins, curling up with a good, thick book is at least a decade away, Peel has compiled dozens upon dozens of easily accessible tips, tactics and strategies for managing life with twins.
No subject is too insignificant or inane: how to hire help, how to ask for help, how to manage outings from walks in the park to plane trips, how to optimize their feeding times, how to optimize your sleeping time. 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 information and entertainment during those night feedings, provides online shopping, and can connect them to organizations for parents of twins.
Equally important, Peel also confronts the psychological, social 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...The fact your twins go to sleep fed and healthy means you ARE coping." And she has very wise counsel for fathers of twins: get as much initial paternity leave as possible, and "if things get stressful, refrain from telling her to chill out or calm down unless you fancy wearing a dirty (diaper) or flung bowl of cereal."
Peel's support and advice is arranged in a easy-to-read, quick-to-reference index. The book can be read from cover to cover it there's time, or you can drill down to the information you need, including on timing the birth of your next child!
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About the AuthorTwins! The 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 to babysitting.
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