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Any pregnancy brings a complex web of emotions: joy, fear, concern, panic, and excitement. But the issues facing the parents of multiples are even more complex. in her clear presentation of facts, Betty Rothbart helps parents through all stages of pregnancy, from obtaining the best prenatal care to choosing the right hospital for delivery. once the infants are home, she's on the ready with advice on breast and bottlefeeding, making time for parents alone, helping siblings adjust to the new babies, juggling increasingly hectic schedules, nurturing individuality, giving everyone in the house enough attention, and a number of other crucial issues unique to raising twins, triplets, and more.Amazon.com Review
With equal amounts of plain facts and sensitive, thoughtfuladvice, Betty Rothbart, M.S.W., presents an excellent resource forexpectant parents of multiples. A psychiatric social worker by trade,Rothbart uses her counseling skills to guide readers through foureasily digestible sections of her book: pregnancy, life withmultiples, help and support, and parenting challenges and joys. Ineach section, she carefully supplies knowledgeable answers to commonyet vital questions, thereby preparing moms and dads for the manyunusual challenges they'll face--in the delivery room and beyond.

Other resources, including When You're Expecting Twins,Triplets, or Quads provide more thorough information onprenatal care, nutrition, fetal development, and potentialcomplications involved with carrying and delivering multiplebabies. However, Rothbart's 100-page pregnancy section includes awonderful chapter of checklists for prospective parents, references,and resources for help. Her serious chapter on premature babiessmartly outlines the NICU (neonatal intensive-care unit) experience,technical terms that may fly around the delivery room, and mostimportantly, lots of reasonable advice on facing the emotionalupheavals often associated with the experience. The bulk of her textfocuses on life after the babies arrive: breast-feeding andbottle-feeding; ways to make time for each child (including oldersiblings), spouses, and yourself; mealtime, bedtime, toilet training,and trip-planning strategies; even a 25-item list outlining the waysothers can lend help (and it sounds like much help will beneeded). Rothbart's conversational tones and logically organizedchapters combine expertly to create a quick--but tremendouslyvaluable--read. --Liane Thomas ... Read more

Customer Reviews (5)

WONDERFUL RESOURCE FOR PARENTS OF MULTIPLES
This book is full of helpful tips and hints.It's a no-frills design, but it packs a lot of information.Out of all the books on parenting multiples that I have read, this one has given me the most/best information.I HIGHLY recommend it.

God's Gift
This book helped me through the hardest time of my life.It exampled what I was going through and why I was going through it better than any other book I read on pregancy.

I thank God every day for my little gifts and having the strength to endore the pregnancy and the birth.This book helped me through both.I would recommend it to anyone expecting a multiple birth.

MULTIBLE BLESSINGS
EXCELLENT SOURCE FOR A MOTHER EXPECTING TWINS!TELLS YOU EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW. PLEASE ALL THAT ARE HAVING TWINS~TAKE IT EASY~BECAREFUL WHAT YOU DO. I DID, BUT STILL LOST MINE AT 21.5 WKS. JENNIFER~MOTHER OF SAMANTHA& TRAVISBORN ON MAY 15, 1999

This book was excellent
This book helped me out a lot, I found out I was expecting twins when I was 16 wks. It was a surprise. It also helped me with explaining to my husband that we were having twins.Excellcent book to read to explaineverything you need to know about expecting and having twins.

If You Are Expecting Twins (or More), Get This Book!
My husband and I are expecting twins.We haveread about five different books regardingpregnancy, birth and raising multiples, but thiswas the best book by far. It includes an incredible amount of practical information, including a great set of check lists that will help you prepare for birth.This is the book that I recommend to every couple that I know who are expecting more than one baby. ... Read more