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SUPERTWINS
MAGAZINE 
, Volume 16 # 3
A Quad Squad Journey Through Three Decades
A mother’s journey from an unexpected quad pregnancy through her quads adult years.
In 1976 there was no support group for a mom of multiples. The family moved to a beach house where the mom faced the many challenges of raising quads, plus an older sibling. Now the quads have grown into adulthood and have followed their own paths. They continue to be there and support each other.
E. coli And HUS: I Just Did Not Know
A mom’s frightening experience when her 2 year old triplets developed an E. coli infection, which can be contracted through animal or human feces.
THAT WAS THEN-THIS IS NOW
Time
After a long battle with infertility and the blessing of triplets, a mom is reminded that, “good things come to those who wait, and timing is everything.”
FATHERS FORUM
Quadruplets: Four Times a Blessing
A dad shares his wife’s experience with infertility due to PCOD (Polycystic Ovarian Disease) and endometriosis and an increase in weight. After gastric-bypass surgery and taking a fertility drug, she became pregnant with quads. Due to their premature gestational age, the quads experienced several complications, but are now home where they continue to grow and get stronger every day.
KIDS IN THE KITCHEN 
No “Bones About It”: An article about how adults influence healthy bones in their children. Nutrition and weight bearing activities are contributing factors in which parents can have a significant influence. Children require plenty of calcium and Vitamin D, which can be found in milk products, and many fruits, and vegetables.
Toad in the Hole: An easy breakfast recipe of eggs, bread and cheese with the egg placed in the center hole of the bread, topped with cheese and baked or pan-fried.
BBQ Biscuits: A nutritious lunch recipe that children love and can help with consisting of ground beef, vegetables, cheese and biscuits.
Whole Wheat Pizza Crust An easy recipe children can help with by measuring, mixing, rolling out dough and putting on toppings of choice.
Fudge Brownie Dessert: A recipe the whole family can enjoy consisting of sugar, cocoa, milk, vanilla and hot water.
Houston’s
Spinach Dip: A tasty snack to spread on crackers or used as a spread consisting of chopped
spinach, cream cheese, sour cream grated cheeses, artichoke hearts, onion,
garlic and butter.
CRAFTS CORNER 
How do you handle an overabundance of finished art projects in your home? We’ll let you know!
How can you encourage the love of art museums without having to leave your home?
Crafty Families Needed!
MOST is looking for families to try the crafts we publish in our magazine SUPERTWINS each quarter. If you think you would like to join our Crafty Families who help out with the arts and crafts projects in advance, we will need a few photos of your children doing the craft and their finished products to go along with the column. We would also love for our Crafty Families to critique the crafts to let us know if you and your children enjoyed it, if you used any substitutions, or if you would recommend any other modifications. To become a MOST Crafty Family H contact our Craft Corner column coordinatorH. CraftCorner@MOSTonline.org
LARGER THAN MOST
Three More Children After 20 Years
After a tubal ligation, 3 grown children, and a second marriage 20 years later, a mom decides on IVF when her new husband suggests they have children together. When she became pregnant with triplets and had to go on bedrest the older children came to help. Moving 3 hours away to a Residence Inn, to be closer to the hospital, she remained on bedrest until delivery.
SPECIAL IN MANY WAYS
Horses, Therapy & Children-A Great Combination
A therapist writes how occupational, physical, and speech therapy can be provided
by specially trained therapists for people with special needs using a horse
as part of the treatment session. The stimulation of the walking horse creates
the sensation of normal movement, helps to improve balance, coordination and
postural ability. A national organization was formed (NARHA) to accredit facilities,
certify instructors, and provide a source of information for families. The
American Hippotherapy Association (AHA) specializes in educating therapists
in working with horses to assist the client with the activity in a safe and
supportive environment.
Fire Safety and the Special Needs Family
An article on the importance of planning ahead, before the toddler stage, with a family of multiples, and how you would handle an in-home emergency such as a fire. A mom shares her family’s experience with a kitchen stove fire and how the children responded with what they had previously learned.
PREGNANCY, INFANCY, AND BEYOND
Life in the NICU
A mom recalls her experience of giving birth to premature triplets with mixed feelings of excitement and fear as they were sent to the NICU where they were intubated, on IVs and
C-paps. She was overwhelmed with guilt for not carrying the babies longer and for what they had to endure in the NICU. Now she has wonderful memories of how well the hospital staff prepared them in the NICU for caring for the babies at home, and the love and support of family and friends. She calls them “little miracles” for they have surprised everyone by how well they have done.
Side Sleeping, Bed Sharing not Recommended for Babies: 13 Things That May Reduce the Risk of SIDS
Side sleeping is no longer recognized as an alternative to lying on the back since it is unstable and the infant may roll onto its stomach. Bed sharing is also discouraged, but room sharing is recommended to reduce risk of SIDS. Pacifiers are recommended the first year of life at nap and bedtime. Several other recommendations are given to reduce the incidence of SIDS.
MEDICAL NEWS
An article on research that was done on how chewing gum after abdominal surgery hastens the return of bowel function, whereby gas and stool are passed earlier, allowing the patient to leave the hospital sooner.
TODDLER TIMES
Come Play With Us Mommy
A mom shares her insight into the importance of spending time with children nurturing, teaching and loving them to help mold them into the people that they will become.
SCHOOL AGE QUANDARIES
Homeschooling Multiples
A mom shares her experience homeschooling her twins for their 2nd and 3rd grade. After joining a local homeschooling group, doing research, finding out the state requirements, and shopping for a curriculum and other materials, she felt confident to begin. Read what she learned.
Classroom Placement: Should parents have the final say?
An article which discusses the issue of the parents’ discretion to place their multiple birth children in the same or separate classrooms. Where does MOST stand on this issue? Read it and find out!
ASK THE SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGIST.
What Will a Label Mean?
A mom’s concern with her son being “labeled” without a proper diagnosis being made when he exhibited signs of anxiety, depression and a decline in his IQ test.
WOMAN-TO-WOMAN
When One of Your Children is Seriously Ill
A mom shares her story and journal entries of her triplet son’s diagnosis of Leukemia when he was 5 3/4 years old. After several hospitalizations, many transfusions and chemotherapy treatments, and spinal and bone marrow tests, he is now home and in remission. Along the way she has several more children- read more about this family’s interesting journey.
The Most Caring Team-The Breast Cancer 3-Day Benefit
A mom of quads organized the MOST
Caring Team to take on the Breast Cancer 3-day walk in
Sometimes Even With the Best of Intentions-the Help Does Not Come Through
A mom’s reflection on how families of multiples are perceived and judged by others, the help or lack of, and their questions or foolish comments.
LOST ANGEL
Where Did You Go? The Extremes of the HOM Experience
A dad shares his painful experience of losing one of the quads his wife delivered prematurely while suffering from pre-eclempsia.
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Updated 4/17/07