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Summary: I would NEVER recommend this book!
Review: This was the scariest book on twins that I read. If you want to be afraid to eat, sleep or breathe during your entire pregnancy than this is your kind of book. Almost every chapter focuses on a negative aspect of carrying more than one baby and there are more chapters on what can go wrong than what to do to help things go right.
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Summary: EVERYTHING YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT TWINS ...
Review: When I was having twins, this book was my bible. I loved it! I found it to be very informative. While I had a wonderful obstetrician in attendance, it was nice to have something to fill in the blanks when he was not available. Being inquisitive by nature, this book fit the bill. I read it from cover to cover. I found it to have a common sense approach to the process of having twins.I tended to follow its advice and found it very reassuring. Its dietary recommendations were sound. I followed them, as they were not inconsistent with my doctor's own. I felt good throughout my pregnancy and was very happy to be having twins. When they were born, my son weighed in at 7 lbs. 2 oz., and my daughter weighed in at 6 lbs. 6 oz. The book really gives one all the information about having twins that one could ever want: the good, the bad, and the ugly. It is a reality based book. Were my daughter having twins, I would give her a copy of this book.
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Summary: Run, Do Not Hide
Review: While this book didn't scare me, I found it laughable and largely useless for the majority of twin-carrying women who like and trust their obgyns, believe that pain is generally to be avoided, and are actually comforted by the fact that institutions such as hospitals exist. Also, I found the book highly offensive in that it strongly suggested that miscarriage in twin pregnancies is caused by a mother's doubts about carrying twins. Gee, what a wonderful guilt trip to impose on a grieving mother...
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Summary: two thumbs up!
Review: Wow! This book has certainly aroused a lot of strong feeling! I feel very lucky to have found it early in my pregnancy almost nine years ago. I credit the book, as did another reviewer, with having full-term babies who were both over 8 pounds, with feeling good about labor even though I did end up with a (very well-handled) c-section, and with having no separation from my babies throughout their birth and our time in the hospital. While I didn't agree with everything in this book, I never agree 100% with anyone, so that didn't bother me. The most important and helpful thing about Elizabeth Noble's book is that it doesn't whitewash the many intense feelings and struggles that twin pregnancy brings--of course I can't speak for everyone, but Ms. Noble's candid explorations really resonated with me. I was afraid I wouldn't be able to love two at once, and I still think that babies do better coming one at a time, even though having and being twins has its magical side. I'm a proponent of attachment parenting, and I know how hard it is to fill two babies' needs for touch, attention, and attunement if there's only one of you! Anyway, I urge those who want to explore the full nature of their feelings about having twins, and who want to avoid unnecessary interventions and separations from their babies, to read this book and see for themselves how they feel about it! For myself, I say, "Thank you."
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