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DoubleUpBooks.com
August 10th, 2009 | 
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The other day, I was interacting with some fellow twin-parents at http://www.twin-community.twin-pregnancy-and-beyond.com and I was checking out the links found in people’s profiles and I came upon www.doubleupbooks.com.
Normally if I can’t determine what the site is by reading it, I don’t visit, but I didn’t have that issue here.
I assumed that this was a website catering to books for twins, about twins, and perhaps, TWIN ORDERING! BOY WAS I ON THE MONEY!
Go check out my new friend Shelby’s awesome website DoubleUpBooks.com!
Shelby rules!
The Internet. Hell Yeah. Vol VI
Again, the internet comes to the rescue!
photo credit: larryzou@
It’s amazing, I find a site I love and I read everything I can, including all links and recommended websites on the pages found within.
That then leads me to other sites, and other sites and other sites.
Well, sometimes it’s the kitchy catchy website names that I ignore first in place of other less suave sounding domains, but when you exclude something just for being cute, you can miss out on some good information.
The site I’m recommending today is called TwInsight.com. Slick name. ACTUAL content this time around!
Twinsight actually holds workshops in the SoCal area for parents of multiples and parents who are expecting multiples. Not only that, but the founders of the program are the authors of the book Raising Twins: What Parents Want To Know.
A wealth of information and other great reference links are found within its pages. Stop by Twinsight.com for a peek into another great twin related website!
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17 Facts About Twins: c/o The Twins Foundation
I found this fact sheet on the Twins Foundation website and I thought I would share it here.
Please visit Twins Foundation and poke around there too!
17 Facts About Twins:
2. An additional 90,000 sets (180,000 individuals) are born each year.
3. Twins (and other multiple births) are on the rise. There were 33 percent more in 1988 than in 1978.
4. Prematurity is a major reason multiples have a higher rate of birth defects and neonatal death.
5. Some thirty percent of multiples are born six weeks premature, or before 30 weeks of gestation. This figure is 10 times higher than their proportion in the population at large.
6. Twins perinatal mortality rate is 5 times greater than babies born singly.
7. Twins and other multiples represent nearly 20 percent of extremely low birth weight infants.
8. Nearly 25 percent of the twins born today are not expected until days or moments before their births.
9. For the second-born twin the mortality rate at birth and within the first month of life is twice that of the first born.
10. As a group twin individuals are at a higher than average risk for abuse (more than 9 times as often as the single child), neglect, physical disabilities, difficulties with speech and language development and social and emotional maladjustments.
11. Families who have multiple birth babies are themselves high psycho-social risk families. Coping with the stress of caring for them is one of the biggest challenges any family can face in the nineties. Divorce and abandonment of the mother and children is common. Other tragedies recently reported: two sets of twins died when their parents were unable to get them medical treatment in time. Worse yet, twice in the last year parents murdered their newborn twins, testifying they were overwhelmed by stress and sleep deprivation brought on by the care of the babies.
12. As American women put off their pregnancies until past their 30th birthday they are increasing their chances of having multiples.
13. A woman’s chances of having twins is approximately one in 90 in the United States. Of these, one third are identical, one third are same-sex fraternals and one third are opposite-sex fraternals.
14. Twin pregnancies in teenage mothers are extremely high risk due to maternal age and physiological development and their twins die approximately 20 percent of the time.
15. The use of fertility drugs, the increased use of in-vitro fertilization, and the use of contraceptive pills all influence the rise in the rate of multiple births.
16. More than 50 percent of the parents of multiples seeking help are low income or unemployed and 80 percent are members of racial and ethnic minorities.
17. Twins are invaluable for demonstrating genetic and environmental factors in diseases such as cancer, diabetes, heart disease, multiple sclerosis, Alzheimers, AIDS and more. Twin studies help all mankind!
© 2009 The Twins Foundation.
Freaked out yet?
Yea?
I am a sponge for any and all information, and while alot of the negative and potentially frightening facts aren’t exactly what I want to hear, I need to understand the possibilities so I can do whatever I can to avoid any of them happening to me, my wife or my children. Granted alot of the things that could happen are out of my control, I’ve been known to carry superhuman powers with me in my camo diaper bag.
Screw you statistics!
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The Internet. Hell Yeah. Vol V
When we got home from the hospital that cool night in June, I was all over the internet looking for sites on families having twins and the step by step process of dealing with the news, incubating the lil’ ones and then having them successfully and being calm twin parents – I didn’t find any between the hours of midnight and 3 am. Now I’m finding them all over the place!
One of the coolest sites that I’ve seen on just what I was looking for is AndrewsKids.com. You can see the week by week progression and ultrasound pictures as well as see exactly what these parents are going through on their way to being the parents of twins.
Very cool. Very relaxed. Very informative.
Go visit: AndrewsKids.com
The Internet. Hell Yeah. Vol IV
photo credit: somegeekintn
I’m telling you, my sleuthing skills as far as awesome twin-sites are concerned are turning pro before I even grow out of my minor league jersey!!
A few of the better twins related websites turn out to be landing pages for some unknown entity in Canada that is an auto-generated pay per clicks thing thing. Sometimes you can utilize those sites for some decent items to purchase, but I’m becoming a sponge, not a collector of all things useless.
I found out that I can find really good websites by just trying to .com them. That’s actually how I named my website, this site IS what I am: Having Twins Now.
So I used common sense, my keyboard and my internet connection to deduce a few sites to frequent. The latest in my quest for as much cool twin stuff as possible ended in me finding www.TwinStuff.com!
I joined their community and I’m enjoying the content, conversation and ease of navigation more than some of the other sites I have visited that try to pull off the forum thing thing.
Check out www.TwinStuff.com
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