Last spring I joined about ten fellow twin moms for a pedicure–an evening out organized by my local parents of multiples club. I was 42 and a mother of toddler twin boys, which is to say, simultaneously more connected and more tired than I’d ever been. My feet looked like I’d been living among owls, […]
Read more »If you’ve ever flown on an airplane or given birth to multiples, you’ve likely been told: “Place the air mask securely on your own face before assisting your child.” As the mother of toddler twin boys, I think this flight-safety patter sounds like a sensible self-care metaphor for parenting on the ground — except when […]
Read more »Six months after my C-section, my ob-gyn marveled at the tidiness of my surgical scar. “Look at that! Who was your surgeon?” she crowed.
I smiled. I hadn’t peeked at the scar, which barely registered in my consciousness. The first months with infant twins, I cared only about survival and sleep. Besides, the skin above that faint gray C-section line was so incredibly strange, it wouldn’t have mattered if my doctor had installed an actual metal zipper at the point of the incision…
Read more »“An April 16 Time magazine article, “The Problem With America’s Twin Epidemic,” by Sarah Elizabeth Richards, had me nervously looking left and right for a raging epidemic of twins spawned by in vitro fertilization (IVF). Like a paired zombie horde, they would shamble across the nation, incurring unnecessary medical costs and slowly taking over…”
Read more »Here’s an ode to Pamela Druckerman and her wonderful book Bringing Up Bebe. Her stories inspired my French-parenting fantasy, unfolding here in Berkeley with my two-year-old twins. This was on Huffpo Parents yesterday.
Read more »C-sections are often hailed as unnecessary, agonizing and overused. On this topic, I can speak only for myself. That said, strange as it sounds, there were things I actually loved about my surgical birth. On The Huffington Post today.
Read more »Featured on The Huffington Post Parents, this was another shout out to lingering angst as a post-IVF parent and an adult child of divorce. Thanks, Mom, for taking this one in stride.
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