Posts by ShanaV

Congratulations on your twins! It's just amazing!! My twins had two placentas, so I don't have personal experience to offer you, but I do know that there are serious risks when a placenta is shared. In particular twin to twin...

Short answer: tandem nurse them on the pillow while I sit on the bed. Let them nurse to sleep, sometimes for 45 to an hour. (I usually read MDC on my phone during this :-P). Then, very slowly, carefully, gingerly place one, then the...

My brest friend has a dip in the pillow for positioning. I kind of hated it, so I flipped the foam over and put the cover on upside down. I prefer it flat. The babies kind of, I don know, sank into the dip, it made their necks all wonky...

A catch-all that I usually go with is something that acknowledges their comment but is also positive, like "It's hard, but I love it," or "it's a challenge, but its worth it." Personally, I'm really noncommittal with randoms out and...

I'm totally interested in EC, but didn't find out about it until recently, so I couldn't do it from the start with my boys. But I'm concerned about how much work it will be with twins.... With one I could probably learn the signs and...

Welcome boys! Congrats!

http://www.mothering.com/community/forum/thread/1276867/what-route-were-your-twins-multiples-born-by This thread has a lot of info you're looking for.

I also have car screamers. Two of em at once. The biggest thing that worked was they got older. >.> Sucks to just have to wait. At about 5 months old they suddenly stopped hating the car so much. Before that the only thing that...

Get thee to naturallycurly.com!    In particular, see the forum for parents of curlies: http://www.naturallycurly.com/curltalk/forumdisplay.php?f=42  

Just keep trying! My guys would take forever with the nipple shields too, we're talkin' 45 to 75 mins! And I pumped and fed them with bottles too, just to fill them up quick. Eventually they stopped needing it though. One day I was...