My baby shower was attended by my wonderfully crazy family who spoiled me rotten, and I enjoyed every minute of it. Don’t feel guilty about having others throw you an over the top party and spoil you with gifts. Think about it this way – this is the last time that you will be the center of attention for quite a while. Bask in it while you can.
Plus, weddings and baby showers are those rare times when your family is all together for a happy occasion, so take advantage of this. Start a journal on the day of your shower and have all of your loved ones in attendance fill out a page with their own stories, tips, and advice. You’ll have a keepsake that is worth more than any gift in the world (but don’t be silly – of course you still want gifts). More
With all the discussions about breastfeeding your twins here on our site, we decided that it’s time to give our formula feeding parents some love.
Here are some of the best formula feeding tips that our community has come up with:
Purchase 8oz wide neck bottles ONLY. The wide neck will make it easier to scoop the formula in (powder) and you’ll eventually need 8oz anyway, so save yourself a trip to the store and some money but just getting one set.
Get them used to room temperature formula. Being able to buy a bottle of water or using water from the tap makes life so much easier.
Don’t feel guilty! I was pumping and using formula, its tough not to be too hard on yourself. Be at peace! More
This week is Celebrate M.o.Ms Week, giving recognition to all of you fantastic Mothers of Multiples for all you do. Today we’ve partnered with The Grandparent Gift Co. to bring you some wonderful prizes!
With Mother’s Day right around the corner we want you to STOP and smell the roses today and realize that all our hard work is paying off. We want you to press PAUSE and look at your children in a different light. Look at all they accomplished. Look at how far they have come from the first time you held them in your arms.
PAUSE and think about how the saying “Time Flies When You’re Having Fun” is so true. Sure, we know it’s not all fun and games, no one knows that better then us, but you know there are moments that make you smile no matter how dark the day.
Need a gift for your mom or grandma? Check out our Pinterest Board.
If you kids forget to tell you today, we will….WE appreciate you. We know how hard you work. We know how being a mom often has little in the way of pay (in relation to cash that is) but is a priceless job that you wouldn’t trade in for the world.
Today, we have a gift for you… The Grandparent Gift Co. is celebrating our M.o.M’s right along with us. Familiar with them? The Grandparent Gift Co. offers unique, sentimental gifts for the entire family. Created by owner and mom of twins!!! Teri Harrison, in 1995, The Grandparent Gift Co.’s goal has always been to find fitting, beautiful, meaningful words to celebrate or remember a life moment, milestone or person. They sincerely hope the recipient understands the sentiment and loves it enough to share it with others and keep it somewhere very dear. The company has many unique gift categories for twins, ultrasound gifts, grandmas, grandpas, godparents, siblings and more.
How do you win? Just fill out the form below and we will be picking a winner on May 1st so you have a chance to get it in time for the big Mother’s Day Celebration in your home.
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In addition to the two prizes we’re giving away today, The Grandparent Gift Co. has two current offers that you can take advantage of. You can recieve a 15% discount coupon code by signing up for their newsletter or liking their facebook page, and they offer free shipping with a $60 purchase. (Please note only one promotion applies, so if you reach free shipping, the coupon would not be valid as well.)
Live in New York? Going to be travelling around here this weekend? Stop by Brooklyn BabyFEST this Saturday!
Taking place in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, this Saturday from 11am-4pm, vendors and speakers from all over will be converging upon Brooklyn BabyFEST. Filled with over 90 exhibitors, 20 panel discussions and demos (including one by our very own Natalie Diaz), and more food than you can shake a stick at, the event also includes free childcare and live music!
In addition to all of that and an IKEA- sponsored breastfeeding and diaper changing area, Brooklyn BabyFEST will also host the 1st ever Brooklyn Diaper Derby, to be MC’d by writer and Brooklyn dad Dave Hill. Town Square and Motherburg NYC have joined forces to create an event with great products, services and information for expectant parents and parents of children up to age three.
Yup, paying taxes is not every American’s favorite past time, but today you have a reason to celebrate!
Free Fries:
Arby’s will give you a free value sized curly fries (Nat’s favorite) and some potato cakes, now that’s a reason to celebrate. Add some Arby’s Sauce and rock these fries out.
Free Cinnamon Bun Bites:
Cinnabon will help sweeten your day with delicious Cinnamon Bun Bites! Enjoy these delicious treats on them from 6 to 8pm. Call ahead to make sure your local store is participating.
Free Popcorn:
Need a minute to think about something other then the $$ you’ll be paying to our government? Take a break from your day and visit AMC theaters for a break from reality. (Twiniversity Recommends: Admission, Oz Great and Powerful, and The Host.)
Get yourself a free popcorn while you’re there with this coupon!!!
Free Massage
Enjoy a free full body massage from HydroMassage! Why can’t they do this everyday, don’t us parents of twins and more deserve it?
Free Shredding
Have a few papers you’d like to forget about? OfficeDepot is offering free shredding services for up to five pounds of paper. NOTE: This offer is actually good through May 1st with the coupon below. Some locations are also giving you a copy of your returns, up to 25 pages!
Free Lunch
Panda Express is offering a free Samurai Surf and Turf (single serving). Bring this coupon below.
Don’t let this day bring you down. Enjoy some freebies and even one from us! We are giving away 25 Yiftee‘s. Tell us what you’d like and we’ll send you $10 to use at a local coffee shop/bakery/drugstore/bar/pizza place etc!
Make fear of the dark a thing of the past! Cloud B’s adorable Twilight Turtle transforms a dark room from scary to starry with a shell that projects REAL constellations onto bedroom ceilings and walls.
Parents can give kids a little interactive lesson after lights-out. Twilight Turtle’s illustrated Star Guide helps you point out the “Dippers” and “Ursa’s” twinkling above you.
Check out all the other toys from Cloud B in this video and fill out the form below for a chance to win a sleeping buddy for your kiddos!
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Tressa Montalvo and her husband Manuel were completely shocked when, while at the doctor checking up on their twins at week twelve, the MD found a third heartbeat. Then a maternal fetal medicine specialist found a fourth.
They had just been trying for a little brother or sister for their two-and-a-half year-old son, Memphis!
After an uneventful pregnancy with no bedrest, the brood was born at 31 weeks via C-section. Tressa had quadruplets Ace, Blaine, Cash and Dylan, on St. Valentine’s Day. Ace and Blaine shared one placenta, while Cash and Dylan shared another. Ace weighed in at 3lb 10oz, Blaine at 3lb 15oz, Dillon at 3lb 7oz, and Cash, the tiniest, coming in at 2lb 7oz. “I just thought I’d go with the A-B-C-D names to make it easier on the family,” Tressa said in our interview. “We didn’t have any ideas for names when we went in.” How can they be told apart? Ace and Blaine have different ears: one more pointed, the other rounder; Cash and Dylan have a darker skintone than their brothers.
Cash is still in the NICU, but he should be coming home today. “The babies had no major complications,” she said. “A lot of the others are more critical than I am.” Other than their weight being smaller than normal, nothing life-threatening was wrong with these miracle quads.
“I’ll tell you a story. I met a woman at Walmart one day and she looked at me and said, ‘Oh my god, are you having twins?’ And I said, no I’m having four, and she went, ‘Oh wow, I had four last year and only one of them survived.’ But I’ll tell you, throughout my pregnancy, I never thought, what if this. What happens if they have this. I kept a positive attitude the whole time, no negative thoughts.”
Positive thoughts are good, especially because when we asked her about how much help she was getting. None! None other than her husband, and occasionally her family on the weekends. This mama is flying solo. What makes it a little easier? “I don’t wait for them to wake up,” she says of their every-three-hour feeding schedule. “I wake them up one by one, feed them, and put them back. I sleep in the time in between at night, and during the day I play with Memphis.”
In true Twiniversity style, we rallied and got this amazing mom of five some great products to help her out. We’d like to thank these amazing companies for their incredible support!
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