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Allie Walld

Allie Walld

Allie is a fraternal twin. She is also a mom of identical twin boys and an auntie to a set of fraternal twins. Her favorite movie is Back to the Future and her favorite actor is Tom Hanks. She sings and plays bass guitar in a band with her husband, and when she’s not reading or playing word games, you’ll find her in the kitchen baking imperial cookies. Connect with TwinsyTwins on Instagram and Facebook.

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Keeping Your Kids Quenched: How Much Water They Should Drink in a Day
Stay Hydrated

Keeping Your Kids Quenched: How Much Water They Should Drink in a Day

Allie Walld

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...

Watch, Learn, Play: Netflix Launches Playground App for Games
A New Playground

Watch, Learn, Play: Netflix Launches Playground App for Games

Allie Walld

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...

How to Dye Easter Eggs Like a Pro—with Stuff You Already Have at Home
Perfect Pastels

How to Dye Easter Eggs Like a Pro—with Stuff You Already Have at Home

Allie Walld

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...

How to Help Your Twins Understand When it’s Actually Time to Get Out of Bed
Countdown to Better Sleep

How to Help Your Twins Understand When it’s Actually Time to Get Out of Bed

Allie Walld

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...

Four Reasons Why a Side-by-Side Double Stroller is Better than a Tandem One
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Four Reasons Why a Side-by-Side Double Stroller is Better than a Tandem One

Allie Walld

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...

Cold? Flu? RSV? What to Watch For & When to Take Your Preemie to the ER
Monitoring Symptoms

Cold? Flu? RSV? What to Watch For & When to Take Your Preemie to the ER

Allie Walld

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...

Nightmarish Nights? 5 Tips for Sweet Dreams from a Pediatric Sleep Expert
A Good Night’s Sleep

Nightmarish Nights? 5 Tips for Sweet Dreams from a Pediatric Sleep Expert

Allie Walld

When you have newborn twins or toddlers who do everything in tandem, it can be hard to get a good night's sleep. If you find yourself day-dreaming about getting a good night's sleep, you're probably in need of a restful, rejuvenating slumber. But if you have newborns or young children who aren't avid sleepers yet, your overnights may be more nightmarish than they are dreamy. While...

Spring Cleaning: 6 Ways to Tackle the Messes that Come with Twin Toddlers
Less Mess

Spring Cleaning: 6 Ways to Tackle the Messes that Come with Twin Toddlers

Allie Walld

With the unending and oh-so-creative messes that come with having twin toddlers, you need to have a solid game plan for tackling everyday messes. The regular ones, like random cereal bits that accidentally fell to the floor during breakfast...and the unexpected ones, like the juicebox that got squeezed too tightly while someone was sitting on the couch or the container of baby lotion...

This Sleep Solution is a Game-Changer & Time-Saver for Tired Twin Parents
Sleeping Ovation

This Sleep Solution is a Game-Changer & Time-Saver for Tired Twin Parents

Allie Walld

When you have newborn babies, safe sleep is always top-of-mind for parents. Overnights can be filled with anxiety. Anxiety from making sure they're sleeping okay. Anxiety from making sure they don't wake each other up. Anxiety from having to transfer two sleeping babies from the living room to their bassinet and praying with bated breath that neither of them wakes up during the process—...

Here We Go! Seven Simple Ways to Celebrate MAR10 Day With Your Kids
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Here We Go! Seven Simple Ways to Celebrate MAR10 Day With Your Kids

Allie Walld

Mario Day is celebrated each year on March 10 (MAR10 looks like Mario…so, let's lean into it, shall we?), and if you have video game lovers in your household, they can get in on the Mario fun all year long. In 2026, we've got a new Mario movie hitting theatres and plenty of nostalgic Mario titles re-emerging for gamers to enjoy on the Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2. Our twins...

Surviving Twin Surgery: An In-Depth Guide to Infant Inguinal Hernia Repair
Small But Mighty

Surviving Twin Surgery: An In-Depth Guide to Infant Inguinal Hernia Repair

Allie Walld

The neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) is a tough place to navigate. Everyone is there to make sure their babies are okay and getting stronger, but everyone is watching their little ones facing different challenges every single day. When our babies were three days old (they were born 6.5 weeks early, at 33+5), they needed feeding tubes to keep their feeds down, phototherapy to prevent...

From Sharing a Womb to Sharing a Room: Should Your Twins Share a Space?
Close Quarters

From Sharing a Womb to Sharing a Room: Should Your Twins Share a Space?

Allie Walld

Twins share a unique bond. One that likely stems from the very beginning, when they share a not-so-unique space. Their living quarters start out extra-roomy, but as they grow, things begin to get quite cramped. Eventually, they're nudging and elbowing each other in utero until they come into this world (sometimes, that nudging and elbowing continues long after they have ample space...

Munchkin Launches Infant Formula that Shares 10 Ingredients with Breastmilk
Fed is Best

Munchkin Launches Infant Formula that Shares 10 Ingredients with Breastmilk

Allie Walld

Feeding newborn twins is a lot of work. If you choose to breastfeed, it takes a lot of calories to get your twins the calories they need, and no matter how hard you might try to exclusively breastfeed or pump for your newborns, there are some cases where you need to supplement your twins' feeds with formula (Iike we did with our premature twins) to ensure your babies are gaining the...

The 6 Best Bedtime Snacks to Help Your Twins Get a Better Sleep
Sound Sleep

The 6 Best Bedtime Snacks to Help Your Twins Get a Better Sleep

Allie Walld

Nighttime wake-ups are the worst. And when you have twins, those overnight interruptions usually come in pairs, too. There are things you can do to create a calming and relaxing ambiance once your twins are in their nursery, but once your babies are eating more than just breastmilk or formula, there are also things you can do before bedtime to help fuel a better slumber. Like, giving...

Brushing Teeth Just Became a Breeze with This Smart Toothbrush for Kids
No More Pulling Teeth

Brushing Teeth Just Became a Breeze with This Smart Toothbrush for Kids

Allie Walld

Oral health is so important, and forming good dental hygiene habits at an early age can give children a solid foundation for a lifetime of smiles. But, sometimes, getting your twins to brush their teeth can be like, well, pulling teeth. Not anymore. This smart toothbrush for kids, in a crowning achievement, just put a cap on the struggles that come with taking good care of our teeth...

Charley Horses Cramping You Up? Magnesium May Ease Your Twin Pregnancy Pain
Ouch That Smarts

Charley Horses Cramping You Up? Magnesium May Ease Your Twin Pregnancy Pain

Allie Walld

Morning sickness. Itching skin. Back pain. These are telltale signs of a pregnancy. Another common annoyance when you're expecting will hit you when you're least expecting it. As you enter the second and third trimesters, charley horses can kick you out of nowhere, causing short spasms in your legs. These brief bothersome bursts can be more frequent or more intense if you're pregnant...

Expecting Twins? Here's How Many Diapers You'll Need in the First Year
Diapers on the Double

Expecting Twins? Here's How Many Diapers You'll Need in the First Year

Allie Walld

Wake. Change. Feed. Play. Sleep. Repeat. As a parent of newborn twins, this will be your cycle eight times a day for the foreseeable future—or more often, if they're not both on the same schedule. You'll be dealing with a staggering number of diapers, and you'll go through them so quickly, you'll want to have a steady supply at the ready to ensure you never run out. So, just how...

Scream Spiral: Mastering Twin Escalation Syndrome Without Losing Your Mind
Take it Down a Notch

Scream Spiral: Mastering Twin Escalation Syndrome Without Losing Your Mind

Allie Walld

One thing you might not anticipate when you find out you're having twins is that they feed off of each other's energy, escalating emotions and creating a cycle of chaotic behavior—sometimes, to the point of exhaustion. If one twin starts laughing, you start smiling, and before you know it, you've suddenly got two gleefully giggling babies. And that's great; it'd be no problem if the...

Fueling Your Preemies: How Feeding Tubes Support Your Tiny Twins’ Growth
For Babies Who Can't Bottle Feed

Fueling Your Preemies: How Feeding Tubes Support Your Tiny Twins’ Growth

Allie Walld

When you welcome your babies into this world, there are many ways they can be fed, from breastfeeding, to bottle feeding, to a combination of the two. But when your newborns aren't able to feed from the breast or a bottle or they can't get enough calories through regular feeding methods, they may need a feeding tube in order to gain weight. What are feeding tubes? Feeding tubes are...

Tired of Bath Toys Marking Up Your Tub? This Will Make it Look Brand-New
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Tired of Bath Toys Marking Up Your Tub? This Will Make it Look Brand-New

Allie Walld

Bath time equals fun time, at least for the toddlers who are splashing around and playing with their toys. What isn't so fun are the brightly colored streaks that can be left behind from the bath toys hitting the sides or the bottom of the tub while your toddlers play and fling their toys all over the place. These transferred paint streaks don't just wipe away with water....

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