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The Race is On

Summer Lovin’: The Surprising Science Behind June & July Fertility

Allie Walld 7 hours ago

It can be a long, hard road for couples who are trying to conceive. But that road might become a little easier to navigate, thanks to fertility seasonality research by scientists at the University of Manchester in the UK, Queen's University in Canada, and Cryos International in Denmark. Published in the peer-reviewed journal Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology, the study discovered...

Which Way to the Pool?

Toddler Talk: How Swimming Lessons Accelerate Cognitive & Language Skills

Allie Walld 1 week ago

Babies' first words. We always wonder what they'll be. Then, once we hear our babies babbling and cooing and those first "Mamas" or "Dadas" emerge, we wonder what's next—if they're meeting their language milestones in a timely manner and how quickly their vocabulary will grow. If you're looking for ways to help bolster your little ones' brain development and language skills, one of...

Vision Health

Here’s Looking at You Kid: Why Vision Monitoring of Preemies is Paramount

Allie Walld 3 weeks ago

May is Vision Health Awareness Month. It's important to keep an eye (pun very much intended) on your children's eye health all-year-round. But proactive monitoring of your twin's vision is paramount, especially if they were born premature (before 36 weeks). This is because twins are at a higher risk for vision problems. This is because twins are at a higher risk for vision...

Just Keep Swimming

Water Safety: Everything You Need When Your Twins Start Swimming Lessons

Allie Walld 1 month ago

When it comes to having twins, there's mention of twice the diapers, twice the work, double the giggles, and double the love, but one thing that doesn't really come up are the challenges that come when you have to sign up multiple children for the same activity at the same time. Sometimes, it's not an issue. But when there are limited spaces available, and you have twins, you suddenly...

The Cortisol Curve

When Stress Levels Don't Drop During the Day, it Can Impact Your Health

Allie Walld 1 month ago

If you've welcomed your offspring into this world, you've likely heard of a non-stress test, which is done during the third trimester and monitors both fetal heart rates and their reaction to movement to make sure your babies are getting enough oxygen. The non-stress test is a very important, non-invasive screening done for high-risk pregnancies. After your babies are born, the other...

Perfect Pastels

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

Allie Walld 2 months ago

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...

Monitoring Symptoms

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

Allie Walld 2 months ago

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...

Less Mess

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

Allie Walld 2 months ago

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...

Diapers on the Double

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

Allie Walld 3 months ago

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...

Take it Down a Notch

Scream Spiral: Mastering Twin Escalation Syndrome Without Losing Your Mind

Allie Walld 4 months ago

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...