3rd edition of the best-selling Ready or Not...Here We Come The REAL Experts' Guide to the First Year with Twins expecting twins book --- updated and expanded (and re-titled)
Pregnant with twins? Need a funny, strategies-filled, up-to-date expecting twins book that details exactly what you need as you embark upon the first year? This book has been supporting expecting and new twin parents for over a decade.
"Smart, funny and refreshingly real advice that will change your life." -Hollie Gyarmati, Designer & Mom of 5 (including 2 sets of twins)
You've expanded (and traded high-fashion maternity wear for your husband's XXL T-shirts), answered way too many questions about your babies' conception, and endured your dynamic duo's in-utero boxing matches. Just think, the adventure has only begun
In the 3rd edition of her bestselling, humor-packed guide to the first year with twins, Elizabeth Lyons and her "multiples" sorority offer the wisdom of their combined experience in the form of practical shortcuts, real-world strategies, and sage advice.
Topics include:
- Preparing the Lair: Mandatory Gear for Babies and Mom
- Twinproofing Your Marriage
- Breastfeeding Twins Strategies (and why it's okay if you don't)
- Handling Unsolicited Advice about Raising Twins: Stories from the Trenches
- Getting Twins on a Schedule - Preferably the Same One
Lyons balances the day-to-day challenges that come during the first year of twins--from double feedings to sleep deprivation to getting out while pretending to have everything under control--with a sanity-saving dose of camaraderie. By the end, you'll be smiling, relieved, and professing, "Thank heaven, I'm not alone "
"The advice you need in the short, funny format your sleep-deprived mind can absorb."
- Lisa Earle McLeod, bestselling author of Forget Perfect
"Elizabeth Lyons' humorous yet realistic perspective provides new parents of twins with a great starting point from which to embark on that all-important first year."
- Dr. Bob Covert, leading Chicagoland neonatologist
"Elizabeth Lyons captures the universal discourse of sisterhood while guiding new mothers of twins through the first year."
- Kathy Voit, RNC, Labor and Delivery nurse