When we found out we were expecting twins, I started this site.
Back in 2006, the mommy blog was having a moment. Sites like Dooce were proof that real people writing honestly about real life could build something worth reading. Paul and I thought we’d do something like that: document the twin pregnancy, the chaos of bringing two babies home, all of it in real time.
Then the twins arrived.
If you’re here, you probably already know what happened next. There is no “real time” with newborn twins. There is no blogging schedule, no thoughtful reflection, no sitting down to write 800 words about your feelings. There is surviving. There is tag-teaming. There is lying on the floor at 3am wondering how people do this, and being too tired to look it up.
So the blog never happened. But the site stayed. And the questions never stopped.
From the beginning, what we actually needed wasn’t stories. It was answers.
What are the real chances of having twins? When do you start solids, and how do you physically manage feeding two babies at the same time? Is it normal that one twin is talking and the other isn’t? Should they be in the same class or separate classes?
Those questions don’t have great answers when you go looking for them. You get generic parenting advice that doesn’t account for twins, or personal blogs that tell you how it felt but not what to do, or medical resources that are technically accurate but written for clinicians, not parents at their kitchen table at midnight.
We wanted something in between. Practical. Honest. Backed by actual research. Written by someone who has been through it.
That’s what TwinParents is.
I’m Jamie. Paul is my husband and the person who built and keeps this site running on the technical side. We’ve been doing this together since 2006: the site, and the parenting.
Our daughters are fraternal twins, and they are in college now. Which means we have lived every stage this site covers. The positive pregnancy test that showed two heartbeats. The NICU. The synchronized feeding schedules. The toddler years (may no one face those alone). The school decisions. The teenage years. The college applications.
I’ve also been part of twin mom communities, online and in person, since our girls were born, and I’m still active in a few of them today. That’s where I hear what parents are actually struggling with, what questions keep coming up, and what good information is still hard to find.
Every article on TwinParents starts with a real question. Then I research it: primary sources, peer-Every article on TwinParents starts with a real question and real research behind it. We take that part seriously, and you can read exactly how on our standards page.
We are not doctors. We are parents who had twins, dove deep into every question that came with that, kept notes, and built something out of it.
If something here helps you feel less overwhelmed and more clear on what to do next, that’s exactly what we were going for.
Have a question, or something you think we got wrong? Get in touch.
Jamie