FEATURES
Above Average: In All Ways
A high-acheiving high-school student preparing to enter college finds out she is pregnant with triplets her senior year. With the help of her parents and the support of her fiance, she delivers healthy babies and heads off to college as a new mom. She then learns two years later that she is pregnant again, with a second set of triplets! After another healthy deliver, one of the babies, an identical son, passes away from SIDS. After a difficult time, she vows to return to school again!
Asking The Experts: An Interview with Dr. Bill Sears
In an interveiw between Maureen Boyle, MOST's Executive Director, and William Sears, MD, parents of multiples can learn about reflux, vaporizers, RSV, and marriage
Growing Through Grief
A mom of 3-year-old quadruplets copes with the loss of her father and helps her children through the process as well. Read this touching tribute to a specil grandpa.
KIDS
IN THE KITCHEN:
Find out how to count those dessert calories
Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Muffins
Holiday Leftovers
Crispy Potato Patties
Sweet Potato Bread
Ham Casserole
CRAFT CORNER
Learn
how to make mini mosaics and bubble prints
SIBLING
SPOTLIGHT
Becky
Lustberg takes us on a trip of who she is through poetry
GRANDPARENT’S
PEARLS
Personal Reflections: Making Memories of My Own
Hope
Starkman reflects on her memories of growing up in New York, and how she built a family of her own after many years of fertility treatments. After the delivery of her triplets, each weighing over 3 1/2 pounds, her family is now making new family traditions.
FATHER’S
FORUM
Nothing’s
Routine
Journey with a father of quadruplets as he walks readers through a typical day starting with the frist beeps of the alarm until bedtime again. Sharing those precious moments and lessons learned as well.
SPECIAL IN MANY WAYS
Meghan's Bar
Meghan's bar chronicals the experience of one family as one of their triplets is treated for pigeon-toe feet or tibial tortion with a metal bar at night. Read what worked for this family in getting a 22-month-old to coorpoerate with such a contrictive treatment.
A Helping Hand
Also some special moms share what types of domestic help they
found to be beneficial with special needs children.
LARGER
THAN MOST
Holiday Traditions
Read
as Deanna Sikes and the Large Family Network share their holiday
traditions as families of higher-order multiples.
MEDICAL UPDATES
Great News for Triplets
Lights Out and No Talking
The Weaker Sex??
Water Bottle Dangers
More Back to Sleep Baby Benefits
INTERESTING
WEBSITES TO VISIT:
Red Cross
Ivillage
Pregnancy, Infancy & Beyond
It
Takes A Village: Hyperemesis and All
A mom of a 2-year-old and 4-year-old suffers from sever dehydration and hyperemesis during her triplet pregnancy. Relying on the help of friends and family, who helped with the children and brought meals, the family has a happy ending with the birth of 31 week triplets.
TTTS: Our Story of Beating the Odds
After learning about her triplet pregnancy, a mom is told she has twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome at 28 weeks gestation when one of her baby's growth continues to fall behind the other two. After an early delivery, the babies require care in the NICU.
The
Trials of a Child who has had RSV
Born at 28+ weeks gestation this families quadruplets due well in the NICU and go home after 72 days. They received Synagis injections the first winter home, but did not qualify the second winter. One of the quadruplets develops RSV and is in and out of the hospital 5l times over the next two RSV seasons.
TODDLER
TIMES
Ahhhhhhhh…Sleep
– From Cribs to Beds
This article available for individual purchase
Great advice from a MOST family who successfully transitioned their quintuplets from cribs to toddler beds. This transition is often a difficult process for many higher-order mutliple birth families, so learn more about what works and what doesn't.
SCHOOL
AGE QUANDARIES
Our
School Placement Experience
Read how one family managed classroom placement for their triplet girls in Kindergarten, First and Second Grade. Also read their tips for managing papers and homework with three!
The Smiths Take Manhattan
The Smith family, mom, dad, 8-year-old triplet boys, and their 7-year-old sister takes a trip to the Big Apple. With a little planning and thinking ahead, the family has a wonderful relaxing trip.
WOMAN-TO-WOMAN
Why
You Can’t Say No To An Exercise Program
A fellow mother of higher-order multiples explains why it is so important for other moms to put exercise near the top of their to-do list. Learn about the challenges a mother of multiples body faces and benefits of exercise.
Resources on Exercise
www.centre4activeliving.ca/Publications/WellSpring/2002/FallPage1.pdf
www.workoutsforwomen.com/
www.collagevideo.com/
Preserving Memories
Six mothers of multiples contribute to this article on scrapbooking. Learn tips and tricksabout this fun and engaging their hobby.
Budgeting Suggestions: What Can I Do?
A family struggling to live on one-income after the birth of their multiples. She receives many great ideas and strategies from other families of multiples.
Updated 05/2/08
