Can you recommend any books on twin pregnancy?

[zephyrcat]

I popped into town yesterday to have a look but there weren't any that I could see, just a small section in the regular pregnancy books. I was hoping to find something specific for twins?

[totaleclipse]

I think you will find some on the TAMBA website.

[PiusIX]

My wife's expecting twins in Aug - best book I've found so far is Double Trouble by Emma Mahony, which is funny as well as informative. Maybe need to get it from Amazon?

[Marscentio]

As the D'ya mums. We've had this convo before so I'm sure they'll have the fave titles to hand!

[Marscentio]

Ask

[zephyrcat]

Thanks will pop over now!

[glamourbadger]

I always refer back to Twins & Multiple Births by Carol Cooper but it's got a bit of a bashing here recently!

I found Baby Secrets by Barbara Want & Jo Tantum excellent. It is co-written by a mum of twins and has a twin section.

Jackie Clune's 'Extreme Motherhood' about her triplets is brilliant if you want a giggle.

The most DREADFUL book I read was Mothering Multiples by Karen Kerkhof. It basically insinuated if you didn't successfully breastfeed your twins you were a dreadful mother and your babies would grow up emotionally scared. I nearly burnt it though admittedly was pretty hormonal at the time .

[twinsnikki]

Hiya glamourbadger,

Have you tried the multiple birth foundation for publishing?

I brought a few from them and they were excellent.

Also, check out the TAMBA association, (Twin and Multiple Birth Association) for information, often they do inhouse literature, which is useful.

Nik

[gorge]

Double trouble is hilarious and full of the truth and good advice. Baby secrets is the best book in the world - follow that and you will get them sleeping at 3 or 4 months.
Don't bother with any others - you'll get overload and paranoid about all the things that can go wrong (which invariably don't!)

[devondoris]

Agree about Double Trouble, but the other really good one, not scary but very down to earth, is Having Twins by Elizabeth Noble. It's got loads of information about type of twins, birth of twins, feeding and other stuff, but it deals with it all in a very positive way; very natural. Well worth looking at.

I bought all the other books but didn't like them as much. Most were quite accepting of the fact that you have to have intervention, which is not my bag at all. EN gave me the confidence to tell it how I wanted it to be, and mostly I got just that in the end, including going to 41 weeks of pregnancy and having my babies on the day I thought they were due on.

Hope that helps!