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10 Things I Wish I’d Known When I Was Pregnant With Twins

By K.K. Goldberg Now that my twin boys are nearly 4 years old, I look back on the advice, warnings, and forecasts I received from the moment I learned I would be gestating multiples. I’ve thought often about what I wish someone had told me then, as a complement to the fearful facts of medical risks and the chortled predictions of […]

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What My Post-Twin-Pregnancy Body Teaches Me

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…

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A Twin Mom’s Post-Infertility Survivor Guilt

It still startles me that people make babies with sex. Privately. Easily. Fast. Then there’s a birth, and no one looks back. For me, like many women, conception was an agonized, un-caffeinated blur of escalating medical procedures, followed by a pregnancy that seemed to last not the actual 36 weeks, but rather the whole 36 […]

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