Recommended Books on Multiples

When You're Expecting Twins, Triplets or Quads: Proven Guidelines for a Healthy Multiple Pregnancy

Barbara Luke & Tamara Eberlein, 2004

Offers special medical and nutritional guidelines for prenatal care, detailed information on what to expect during pregnancy, and anecdotal stories from mothers.

 

Having Twins and More: A Parent’s Guide to Multiple Pregnancy, Birth, and Early Childhood

Elizabeth Noble, 2003

Emphasizes optimal health as well as physical and emotional adjustments to bearing and raising multiples.

 

Everything You Need to Know to Have a Healthy Twin Pregnancy

Gila Leiter, 2000

Written by an Ob/Gyn who’s also the mother of twins. Offers step-by-step guidance through the processes of pregnancy, birth, and bringing the babies home.

 

Keys to Parenting Multiples

Karen Kerkoff Gromada & Mary Hurlburt, 2001

Written by a lactation consultant and mother of twins. Includes advice on questions to ask the obstetrician, making family adjustments, infant feeding, individuality issues, and more.

 

Pregnancy Bed Rest Book: A Survival Guide for Expectant Mothers and Their Families

Amy Tracy, 2001

Discusses everything from why bed rest is prescribed to couch exercises to dealing with husbands and children.

 

Art of Parenting Twins: The Unique Joys and Challenges of Raising Twins and Other Multiples

Patricia Malmstrom & Janet Poland, 1999

Explains that the keys to survival are organization, planning, knowing how to ask for help, and knowing the type of the twins (dizygotic or monozygotic).

NC Support Groups
Links on Multiples

Multiples: Twins, Triplets and Beyond (March of Dimes)

Surviving Bed Rest (Nemours Foundation)

Pregnant with Mulitples (National Infertility Association)

Twins, Triplets, Multiple Births (MedlinePlus)

Breastfeeding Twins (La Leche League)

Twins: Taking Care of Two (American Academy of Family Physicians)

National Organization of Mothers of Twins Clubs

 

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