What to Do When You’re Having Two: The Twins Survival Guide from Pregnancy through the First Year
About this audiobook
The creator of Twiniversity delivers the ultimate survival guide for parents of twins
There’s no doubt that having twins is challenging. First, there’s the pregnancy. But after the twins arrive, the real work begins: coordinating sleep schedules, feeding two babies at the same time, buying five hundred diapers a month while saving enough to send two kids to college in eighteen years, and maintaining your own sanity throughout. But it’s also incredibly rewarding—if you’re well prepared!
In What to Do When You’re Having Two, national twins guru and founder of Twiniversity—and mother of twins herself!—Natalie Diaz provides a no-holds-barred resource about life with twins, from pregnancy and birth all the way through your duo’s first year of life.
Funny, reassuring, and full of stories and advice, this life-saving book covers
making a birth plan checklist;overcoming the challenges of premature delivery and the neonatal intensive care unit;sticking to one sleep schedule;double-duty breastfeeding;must-have gear, including a guide to double strollers;keeping your sanity and your finances under control; andbuilding one-on-one relationships with each child early.Packed with tried-and-true tips from the trenches, this is the must-have survival guide for parents of twins.
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About the author
Natalie Diaz is the author of the poetry collection When My Brother Was an Aztec. She has received many honors, including a MacArthur Fellowship, a USA Fellowship, and a Lannan Literary Fellowship. She teaches at Arizona State University.
Xe Sands has more than a decade of experience bringing stories to life through narration, performance, and the visual arts. From poignant young-adult fiction to powerful first-person narratives, her characterizations are rich and expressive, and her narrations, evocative and intimate.
