My Life

The t-word is enough to send shivers down most parents' spines. When your babies get their first teeth, it can go one of two ways; either you hardly notice it at all or it's a living nightmare. For me, it was the latter. You probably…

The twin birth rate is on the up and up worldwide and the fascination with all thing twin keeps on growing. Every child, I dare say, would love to have a twin and everyone seems to have a “how the twins fooled me” type story to tell.…

How cute is it when you see two little girls standing together, holding hands and playing, matched in the same pair of adorable dungarees, with identical bows in their symmetrical hair? As a mom of twins, I absolutely know how tempting…

Congratulations, you’ve decided to breastfeed your twins! Apart from the perhaps not so obvious convenience and cost saving benefits, you are doing your little ones an enormous favor. Breast milk as you probably know is far more…

Traveling can be tiring for the best of us, but it can be even more challenging with a little one. Don’t worry! Here are some helpful tips to make your hotel stay more comfortable with your baby, while traveling. Pack Some Painter’s Tape…

I do dearly love my little girls, Ava with her seemingly endless supply of questions and ideas and the twins, Rose and Ella, Rose who is forever trying to get moving and Ella with her incredible smile and sense of fun. Sometimes, though,…

When expecting twins one thing you're told more than anything else is that the first year will be the most challenging. I thought I understood this pretty well considering, I helped my aunt take care of my twin cousins when I…

Don’t get me wrong, when I first became a mother, I wasn’t quite sure how I’d cope. The truth, though it’s hard to admit, is that becoming a parent really changes who you are. You have this world of brand new responsibility. That in…

The close bond between twins is indeed a beautiful thing and it is by now well documented that twins interact in the womb as early as at the tender age of 14 weeks. Scientists have witnessed how one twin moves toward the other, how they…

Some of the most joyous moments of parenthood are when your baby reaches his or her first milestones. I know this pretty well because I'm a mom to twins. I get to witness milestones in doubles! At eight months, we transitioned from milk…

No one can understand how utterly tiring having twins is until it happens to them. When I first became a mother, it was a difficult adjustment. Still, that was nothing compared to the sheer stress that hit me when the twins came along…

A lot of the time, people ask me how my pregnancy with Ella and Rose was. While I'd been a mother before then, I'd never experienced the true struggle of carrying twins. The truth of the matter that everything from your discomfort to your…