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Just Keep Swimming

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

Allie Walld 6 days 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 2 weeks 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 3 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...

We Don’t Put That in the Potty

Down the Drain: How to Retrieve Stuff Your Toddlers Toss into the Toilet

Allie Walld 3 months ago

As toddlers start to figure out how the toilet works, they take it upon themselves to run scientific experiment after scientific experiment to confirm their hypotheses as they watch the water spin in circles on its way down the drain. And when you have twins, there are twice as many studies that must be performed. To be sure they understand the mechanics behind it all, toddlers tend to...

Outstanding Ideas

The World’s Biggest Tech Show Says These Are Must-Haves for Twin Parents

Allie Walld 4 months ago

Life with kids is busy and hectic. There's a lot to juggle, and keeping track of everybody and making sure they're all fed and safe and where they need to be is a daily feat. So, when companies find ways to make the lives of parents and their families easier to navigate, we're here for it. This week, the world's biggest tech show was held in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Consumer Electronics...

Like Looking in a Mirror

The Ultimate Checklist to Tell if You Have Mirror Image Twins

Allie Walld 4 months ago

Whenever a new year comes around, people tend to take time to reflect on the past 12 months and on what the next 12 may bring. Reflections can be telling. And, sometimes, they can show you more than you realize. Especially when the face looking back at you is your mirror image BUT they happen to be a totally different person. This can happen in the case of mirror image twins. But...