Twins Magazine 2004 January February
Canadian family with four sets of twins sets Hardwired to Connect HMO forced to pay for TTTS surgery Holiday Survival Guide Oh my word! RSV season symptoms and strategies Sparkling Snowflakes The best-laid plans The hamster project Those “loving feelings” are hard to find Twins galore Two treatments help TTT babies Uh-oh! Toddler Trials and Training What causes monozygotic twinning Whining wears on single mom Help! I need somebody…
Canadian family with four sets of twins sets
Hardwired to Connect
HMO forced to pay for TTTS surgery
Holiday Survival Guide
Oh my word!
RSV season symptoms and strategies
Sparkling Snowflakes
The best-laid plans
The hamster project
Those “loving feelings” are hard to find
Twins galore
Two treatments help TTT babies
Uh-oh! Toddler Trials and Training
What causes monozygotic twinning
Whining wears on single mom
Help! I need somebody…
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COLUMNS
10 Zygosity Puzzle
by Geoffrey Machin, M.D.
Two treatments can help
TTTS babies
14 Married with Twins
by Joshua Coleman, Ph.D.
Those “loving feelings”
16 Research
by Patricia Malmstrom, M.A.
What causes monozygotic
twinning?
28 The First Year
by Lauren Kafka
The best-laid plans
36 Special Miracles
by Karen Johnston
Surgery saves TTTS twins
40 Threesomes
by Joanne M. Amoroso
The hamster project
41 Activity
by Julie Huffman
Sparkling snowflakes
46 Happy Endings
by Kandace York
Oh, my word!
DEPARTMENTS
4 From the Editor
6 Letters
8 In the News
9 Family Talk
27 Great Gear
34 Growing Stages
43 Double Takes
CONTENTS
JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2004
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FEATURES
12 Uh-oh! Toddler trials and training by Sharon Withers
You can tame public meltdowns, “No! No!,” and other trials
of toddlerhood.
17 Help! I Need Somebody by Melanie Bowden
Postpartum doulas offer nurturing help for new mothers.
ON THE COVER
Jed and Noah Weissman, active 7-monthold
dizygotic twins, are on the move in their
Highlands Ranch, Colo., home. Our New
Year’s babies are just learning to crawl and
explore their world.
Cover Photography by Murray Elliott
23 “I Never Could Have Made it Without…” Notes from our Readers
Take some advice from moms who finish the statement, “I never could have
made it without…”
24 Hardwired to Connect by Sharon Withers
For the first time, science proves that we need those emotional connections.
This may be especially true for families with twins.
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