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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

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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

*GONG*

So I’m an internet ninja. I can simultaneously find you a better bit rate on an obscure old funk album from the 70′s, upload last night’s performace video (I like to play), get my wife a recipe for sweet & sour chicken and research about having twins at the same time.

Not only can I do all of that at once, but I manage to update this damn blog pretty frequently to remind myself of what I’m digging through the internet to find. Even if some of this stuff doesn’t interest everyone, it’s like my internet scrap book in that I can post it, and then go back to it whenever I need it without having to remember where I saved the bookmark.

SO – Today i was reading about how insane life is going to get in regards to feeding and diaper changes. I’ve read that organization between parents is not always communicated with grunts and whistles, and that a good excel spreadsheet to document poops and bottles is one way to make sure Twin A isnt eating twice and Twin B is pissed you’ve been ignoring him/her.

I started looking for a pdf or something that I could just print out rather than having to mess with that godforsaken program, AND I FOUND ONE!

Talk-about-Twins.com has one right on their homepage. CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE PDF.

AND! As it turns out, the lady who writes @ Talk-about-Twins.com wrote a book!
Check out: Double Duty: The Parents’ Guide to Raising Twins, from Pregnancy through the School Years (2nd Edition)

MAN I love people who do it all. And I found one that does, Christina Tinglof.

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As we continue on our road to new websites to visit when entertaining the thought or actually carrying the weight of having twins, let us explore some other sites together, shall we?

Our first website comes through maybe 7 clicks in from the Multiples Site at About.com – this one is called Mother of Twins.com.

Granted, I am male and do not particularly care for the fashion items on display, but I’m sure if I was hiding a 37lb frozen turkey under my mumu I’d want some clothes to sport around the doctor’s office too!

ZING!

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The last site I found that peaked my interest was GREAT DAD. Something I’m trying to keep on top of every day is being a great dad, and DAMNIT why didn’t I think to use this site before my lil dude was born?

Go visit GreatDad.com and check out their amazing way of organizing worthwhile articles on the basis of where your wife is in the pregnancy as well as by the age of your children.

Two cool sites. One cool dude. (THAT’S ME!)