Tag: twins
How My Girls Helped Me Break The Cycle Of Family Violence
The birth was all a bit of a blur. My girlfriend Donna was seven months pregnant with twins when she started to feel unwell and...
I Lost One Of My Baby Boys But He Will Always...
To celebrate my 30th birthday in June 2017 my husband and I went to Rarotonga, one of the Cook Islands, for a much-needed break....
My Husband Died Two Months After Our Twins Were Born –...
When I married Justin, life was perfect. We’d grown up knowing each other, friends in high school and at college. Eventually we got together...
I’m A Much Better Father The Second Time Around
As I watch my youngest son, Robbie launch his favourite toy car down the garden slide and roar with laughter as it splashes in...
It Was A Shock To Learn Our Son Was A Cleft...
It’s funny how random conversations can take a turn that make you see people in an entirely different light. Some months ago,...
5 Tips For How to Deal With Super-Competitive Twins
Do you know any competitive twins? When I was a kid, I had twin cousins and I remember feeling intensely jealous of them. As an only...
Our Struggle With Infertility Ended In Panic When Our Twins Were...
When Bryan and I got married in July 2013, we were really excited at the thought of starting a family. We agreed to wait...
Mother Gives Birth To Triplets – When She Didn’t Even Know...
After 12 years of marriage and two children, Dannette and Austin Giltz thought their family was complete. So when Dannette was rushed...
Mother Gives Birth To Twins – Just A Month After Having...
Imagine giving birth to your first child and settling into motherhood – then going into labour again a few weeks later.
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Does space go on forever? – Conrad, age 6, Sydney Space probably does go on forever, but the truth is we don’t know. Not yet...
8 Top Quirky Parenting Tips
Life’s weird. The trials and tribulations of raising kids are even weirder. I subscribe to the “whatever works for you” philosophy; after all, parenting...
Teenage Pregnancies Don’t Have To Be Disastrous
The idea of having a baby as a teenager often is viewed as both a personal catastrophe and a social problem. This is probably...
I Told My Mother She Had To Accept Me As A Girl – Or...
I knew from a very early age that I was really a girl, even though I was born with a boy’s body - that...