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Useful Links
Breastfeeding
Fun
Stuff for Kids
- Alfy - Free kids'
games,
clip-art, online puzzles and more
- Family Fun
Magazine - Ideas for family craft projects, cooking ideas, and
other neat things families can do together
- Kaboose -
Tips
on parenting, crafts and more along with links to kids' games at Funschool and Zeeks
Local
Atlanta Area Multiples Clubs
National
Multiples
Support Groups & Online Publications
- Marvelous
Multiples - Multiple birth educational resource for parents.
Offers local classes, and has useful links on website.
Recommends taking classes early in your second trimester.
- MOST
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Mothers of Supertwins - An international support network of
families who are expecting or are already the parents of triplets or
more.
- Multiples
Guide at
About.com - Pamela Prindle Fierro is your Guide to Parenting of
Multiples at the about.com website. Offers useful information and
has a great newsletter too!
- The Triplet
Connection - A "Network of Caring and Sharing" for
multiple-birth families. It provides vital information to families who
are expecting triplets, quadruplets, quintuplets or more, as well as
encouragement, resources, and networking opportunities for families who
are parents of larger multiples.
- Twin
Connections - This site shares news stories and events about twins
- Twins
Magazine
- need we say more?
- Twin
Stuff -
community for twins, triplets-and-higher and their families.
- Twins World -
"Keeping Twins Connected Around the World!"
Parenting
Resources
- Atlanta
Parent - Website which includes family oriented articles and
information about local events
- BabyCenter.com
is a destination on the Internet for new and expectant parents,
together with its companion site ParentCenter.com, a Web resource for parents of
children ages 2 to 8, is dedicated to helping you find the information
and support you need during pregnancy and in caring for a baby,
toddler, or child.
- Fly Lady - Do you
feel like you could use some help getting your house (and life) in
order? Is your sink shining and are you dressed to your
shoes? If you are living in CHAOS (Can't Have Anyone Over
Syndrome), this link is for you. Also has a mentoring program via
yahoo groups email.
- Happy Baby
Solutions
- "Bliss for your Baby" This group of baby nurses/professional infant
specialists are trained to provide "renowned infant calming and
sleeping teachniques" for your infants during the first 12 weeks of
life.
Perinatal
Loss
Information
- Caring Bridge -
On this site
you can create a secure webpage that has a
place to post updates and pictures of your babies and family, a
comments page for people to leave you notes, and a number of other
resources. It'll help you inform everyone you want to without having to
make a bunch of calls or send emails (and forget to include someone)
- Multiple
Birth Families - This
website provides insight and support to families dealing with the loss
of a twin.
- Center for Loss in Multiple
Birth, Inc. (CLIMB) - Founded in
1987, CLIMB, Inc. helps
parents who have experienced the death of a multiple or multiples
during pregnancy, birth infancy or childhood. It publishes the
quarterly "Our Newsletter" and has an active parent contact network.
Varous articles and assistance are available to parents of twins clubs,
professionals and parent support groups.
- Now
I Lay Me Down To Sleep - This
website is full
of photos dedicated to families dealing with early infant loss
- Perinatal
Loss - This
website provides contact information and pastoral care information for
anyone dealing with the loss of an infant.
- SHARE:
Pregnancy and Infant Loss Support, Inc. - Provides support toward
positive
resolution of grief
experienced at the time of and/or following the death of a baby.
This support encompasses emotional, physical, spiritual and social
healing, as well as sustaining the family unit. Provides
information, education, and resources for the needs and rights of
bereaved parents and siblings. Offers community aid to those
involved with the bereaved.
- Twin
Hope,
Inc.
- Offers services to
families, educates the
public and professionals, and broadens the awareness of Twin to Twin
Transfusion Syndrome and other twin related diseases. Provides ongoing
support for multiple birth loss and a free, bi-annual publication
titled "TwinLines" with mothers stories and a medical update. Twin Hope
distributes educational manuals, brochures, and literature to families
and medical professionals.
- Twinless
Twins International
- The
late Dr. Raymond Brandt, whose
identical twin was accidentally killed at age 20, founded and directed
Twinless Twin Support Group. The Twinless Twins Support Group, a
resource for families who have experienced a death or terminal illness
of a twin or other multiple.
- Twin Things
- Janice
Webster is an identical twin who
maintains a blog regarding losing a twin.
Preemies
- Parents
Partnered for Preemies - This website provides information
on programs and support
groups offered by Northside Hospital in relation to premature infant
birth.
- Preemie
Magazine
- It
has
great articles and alot of information I wished I had when my guys were
little. There are advertisements for vendors with wonderful specialty
items that are really helpful.
Pregnancy Related
Issues
- Fetal
Hope Foundation -
Provides support, information, education
about TTTS and other fetal distress syndromes affecting twins and
multiples during pregnancy. Funds research into TTTS and fetal distress
syndromes (acardiac twinning sequence TRAP; amniotic band
syndrome” ABS;
fetal lower urinary tract obstruction” FLUTO). Operates call
center and
message board to help families save babies' lives. Fundraising
efforts
include national pledge drive and annual TTTS Race for Hope in Denver,
Charlotte, Seattle and Los Angeles. Collaborates with leading TTTS
laser surgeons and medical centers treating multiples in utero.
- Monoamniotic - An online
support organization for parents
who have been diagnosed with monoamniotic, monochorionic twins. This
site contains the most current information available about monoamniotic
twins and the various treatments used by the medical community.
- Sidelines
- A network of support groups across the country for women
and their families experiencing complicated pregnancies. Bedrest
, preterm labor and other issues addressed here.
- Twin To Twin
Transfusion Syndrome Foundation - Founded
in 1992, The TTTS Foundation is an
international 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to providing
educational, emotional, and multiple birth loss support to families,
medical professionals, parents of multiples, clubs, and other
caregivers before, during or after a diagnosis of TTTS. The
organization's mission is saving the babies, improving their future
health and care, furthering medical research, and keeping families
together the way twins are meant to be. TTTS newsletter and many
resources available upon request.
- Twin 2
Twin - The UK Twin to
Twin Transfusion
Syndrome
Association is made up of parents, caregivers and research
professionals all dedicated to raising awareness of the syndrome,
funding research, and providing care and advice to parents. The aim of
the organization is the preservation and protection of the health of
unborn babies suffering from TTTS by the provision of information,
advice, and support.
Shopping
- Baby Linq - This company knows how
hard it is to find nice preemie clothing. Their line of
Chuckleberries preemie wear will end your search. Made of the softest
cotton you'll find anywhere and with the most darling designs, your
preemie will have the best in baby fashion! You'll find coordinating
outfit sets for head to toe or single items to supplement what you
already have. And you have two sizes to choose from: Preemie, 4-6 lbs.
or NICU Preemie, 1-3 lbs.
- Bargain
Watcher - This is a
website which is run by a local Atlanta mother
of twins who posts all the consignment sales in the Atlanta area
(including ours!) on her website. This is a great resource for
finding out when and where the sales are!
- To
buy Two - Recommended by
another mother of twins, this is a neat site for
multiples. This is a website like E-bay, where you can bid on
items exclusively for multiples!
- 2
by 2 - Canadian-based twin mother-owned company that produces
t-shirts and giftware for twins and mothers of twins. She plans
on expanding her line to include higher order multiples, fathers,
grandmothers/grandfathers of twins etc. in the future.
- T is for
Twins
- "A" is for apples of my eyes, "B" is for babies, full of surprise.
Follow this delightful rhyme through T is for Twins and watch how the
author captures the essence of the twin relationship by pairing each
letter of the alphabet with an adorable photograph of a set of twins.
Parents and children alike will enjoy cozying up together to share this
warm book and take a closer look at what makes twins so special
- Unlimited
Additions provides matching and coordinating clothing for infants
and toddlers, particularly boy and girl twins. Most of the matching
clothing is geared towards boy and girl multiples but there are
matching and coordinating outfits for boy/boy and girl/girl as well.
Special Needs
- The Arc
of the
United States - This national
organization on mental
retardation provides support and services for individuals with mental
retardation and their families. This site provides links to local
chapters as well as national information on disabilities affecting
people with mental retardation.
- The
American
Speech-Language-Hearing Association -
The mission of the American
Speech-Language-Hearing Association is to promote the interests of and
provide the highest quality services for professionals in audiology,
speech-language pathology, and speech and hearing science, and to
advocate for people with communication disabilities. This site provides
resources for parents as well.
- Center for
the
Study of Autism
- This site offers lots of wonderful articles
about issues affecting autistic children, related disorders, sibling
relationships, and new interventions/therapies.
- The
Council for
Exceptional Children - The largest
international organization
working to promote better learning opportunities for children with
disabilities and children who are gifted.
- ERIC
Clearinghouse on Disabilities and
Gifted Education - This site is
literally a clearinghouse of
education articles and information for parents and educators of
children with special needs.
- Special
Education Resources on the Internet
- Sponsored by Hood College in Frederick, MD,
Special Education Resources on the Internet (SERI) is a compilation of
general disabilities information with extensive links to products for
the disabled and resources for those with physical and health
impairments.
- United
Cerebral
Palsy Association - Their mission is
to advance the
independence, productivity and full citizenship of people with cerebral
palsy and other disabilities.
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