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The only book to offer successful routines and practical guidance for enjoying, and surviving, twin babies
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A Contented House with Twins unites the UK's leading baby expert, Gina Ford, and the highly regarded television presenter Alice Beer, a mother of twin girls.
Discovering you are expecting twins is both an exciting and a thoroughly terrifying prospect. Within weeks of the arrival of her beautiful daughters, Alice found that she was 'screaming out for a routine' and craving the knowledge of mothers who had been through it with two. This book is the result of those cries. Alice's front-line experience of coping with twins is combined with Gina's highly successful parenting advice and, for the first time, her groundbreaking routines, specially adapted for twins. Together, they tackle the practical and emotional aspects of parenting two babies, including:
- what you can expect in a multiple pregnancy
- how to feed two at once
- what to do when they each want a different story or both want a hug
- how to cope with everyday practicalities: shopping, bathtime, and much more.
Alice's humorous insights and Gina's essential advice, tips, support and successful routines will guarantee that parents enjoy their twins and get their lives back.
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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
If you're expecting twins, this book will ensure you keep your sanity,
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This review is from: A Contented House with Twins (Paperback)
Being an advocate of Gina Ford's CLB routines for my singleton, I may have been slightly biased before reading this book. However, reading some negative reviews about this book prior to purchasing it made me question whether I actually needed this book before my twins arrived, or whether I could simply adapt the single CLB routines for twins myself. I couldn't. Single babies are a different ball game to twins. If you're expecting twins, this book - whether you follow the routines or not - will prove invaluable to you and your sanity.
The Alice Beer segments, though entertaining and informative, serve mainly to engage readers who perhaps haven't been used to Gina's strict formulas and techniques yet, despite hints of a slightly more funded lifestyle than the average reader (something I didn't find as offensive as some reviewers), I found her to write articulately, honestly and sincerely, and this, surely, is the only style of advise that expectant mothers really need in their lives. Merely reading Gina Ford doesn't cut the mustard when it comes to looking after your baby or babies successfully - although she has amazingly useful tips and advice on all aspects of parenting young children, the CLB routines themselves are what underpin everything she writes about. It is these routines that reviewers with negative comments have failed to appreciate. The routines - like any aspect of successful parenting - require PERSEVERANCE. Nobody's tips or routines can feasibly work overnight, or even within the week, but working towards the timings and style of sleep etc, it's hard to imagine any child not eventually benefitting from Gina's well-researched techniques. I honestly don't know how parents of newborns - singletons or otherwise - can survive without the knowledge that their children will sleep at certain times, or that they will be able to enjoy the peace of evenings to themselves again from 7pm within a reasonable timeframe. Gina's CLB routines actually work - but only if you keep working at them. Yes, it is hard and monotonous at times - but then I imagine it's even harder work and more monotonous without such routine in your life - but the pay-off is incredible. Babies that know when to sleep; babies that settle themselves; babies that are clearly contented - these goals become even more crucial to parents when twins arrive. This book hands you the key to achieving these goals and even summarizes the info on a week-by-week basis for even easier reference when your hands are full all of the time. I can't endorse this book enough (and a few sloppy editing errors cannot put me off).
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent guide for bringing up twins in their first year,
This review is from: A Contented House with Twins (Paperback)
I found this book so helpful as a guide to looking after my twins in their first year when I didn't know where to start! Although strictly following the routines will not work for everyone, they are useful as a general reference guide to bedtime and feeding routines, sleeping problems etc. for two babies. I found myself going back to the book time and time again when I was unsure or when things weren't going to plan - two years on my twins go to sleep at the same time every night without fail, have good mealtime and nap routines and seem really happy as a result. This book is invaluable, I highly recommend it.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Helpful tips and ideas,
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This review is from: A Contented House with Twins (Paperback)
The book has some helpful tips and ideas even if you dont follow the scrict routines. The routines are very regimented and I found that my twins are different people and do not want to follow them, especially at the same time! Worth buying though for helpful ideas about feeding, sleeping, controlled crying and bedtime routines.
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