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Summary: It was MY security blanket
Review: For what this book proports to do: tell anecdotes of what it is like to be pregnant with twins, bring them into the world, and mother them for the first couple of years...it succeeds.I stumbled upon this book mid-pregnancy with my fraternal twin boys, our only kids, in the summer of 1993 when it was first published. Because no one else I knew had twins, I depended upon these women's stories to guide me along. I found it very reassuring and reaffirming. I wish I had one now that my boys are about to turn seven and I have questions about schools and socialization. Let's face it..it isn't a clinical resource, it's a support group in book form for the sometimes isolating and ever-challenging adventure of mothering twins.
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Summary: This book TERRIFIED ME!
Review: I am 12 weeks pregnant with twins, and this book has scared the bejesus out of me. These women had nothing but horror stories to tell - from being unable to exercise, walk, have sex, to bedrest and then sleepless nights for 9 months! even to having the whole family fall apart and the twins almost resulting in a divorce! While I realize this will be harder than my singleton pregnancies and births (which were incredibly easy), I don't appreciate being scared out of my wits.
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Summary: Useful and practical
Review: I enjoyed the practical aspect of this book although I felt the women had very similar experiences and thus didn't cover a broad enough spectrum. The sections on how to actually feed two infants at once was great and I felt like a sister was filling me in on all the little details you don't read in the usual "expert" books. I would say this book is invaluable to first time parents and quite useful to repeat parents. Great job!
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Summary: tell it like it is.......
Review: I found this book to be very staright forward and It helped me by not "sugar" coating things. I read it when I first found out, and I read it again as a refresher in the last weeks of my pregnancy. After my twins were born I thought wow....my labor was by the "book"
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Summary: very good, loved it
Review: I think that this is a great book for mothers of young twins! The best part is hearing about Donna Florien Deurloo's (writer) twins Max and Otto! they Rock!!
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Summary: This is a very negative portrayal of caring for twins.
Review: I was so depressed by this book that I stopped reading it halfway through for about a week. I also told my husband that after the babies arrive we will never have any fun again ever. Since I know several families with twins, I know that this is not the case. But it sure feels like it while reading this book. While I feel that it is useful to have eyewitness accounts of the reality of caring for twins, I felt this book was pretty much a summary of the worst of everything most of us know already, that it is a lot of work, a lot of sleeplessness, a lot of demands, etc. I also felt that there was not a whole lot of useful information about the specifics of caring for twin babies. The most useful info seemed to me to apply to handling the relationships between the twins when they are older, as well as relationships with older siblings. None of the contributors returned to work full time while their children were very young. The sections on finding childcare were therefore of limited value. Finally, since 2 of the contributors were mothers of identical twins, some discussion of special issues related to identical twins would have been useful.
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Summary: Worth getting for the "confessions"
Review: If you want to find out what women really think about having twins, this is the book to get. You can only read so much about how many little shirts to get before you scream and want to read about someone who's really been through it. Yes, twins are exciting and fun, and the experience of a lifetime (I can say this now that mine are five). Yet to ignore the hardship and risks involved would be criminal. I wish someone had scared me MORE into getting help through the first few critical weeks. It can be very difficult, and I understand the women who want to read positive, uplifting things about a multiple-birth pregnancy--but there's a time to face facts and arm yourself with the truth. My main critism of the book is that I thought it needed more emphasis on the fathers. Maybe sections throughout the book rather than one chapter--I kind of felt like they got off the hook. Also great was the emphasis on being in a support group-- mothers of multiples clubs are indispensable.
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Summary: Enjoyed reading of the PERSONAL experiences of the mothers.
Review: It was so refreshing to read stories from actual mothers of twins, not some 'experts' touting their beliefs. Was one of my most thumbed books while pregnant with my girls!
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Summary: Worth getting
Review: The "chatty" discussions cover most aspects of having twins in a calm and "been there" tone. It calmly discusses things usually left out of singleton birth books, such as what happens in NICU and how to handle premature babies at home. It also prepares you for the day to day things like how to deflect gawkers when shopping, how to handle prolongued fatigue and how to encourage the twins' individuality
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