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Welcome, Babies!

Preparing Siblings for the Arrival of Twins

By Amy Carey

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When you're expecting a baby, everyone in the family must adjust their lives – a lot. Siblings of the baby-to-be, particularly young children, may not understand the concept that soon another person will be vying for Mom and Dad's attention – and usually getting it, for the first few months at least. So parents spend the months before the baby is born reading books about new arrivals, talking about how life will be different for the family and enlisting the help of older children in picking out baby gear or setting up the nursery.

Things get a little more complicated, though, when your older child sees you assembling multiple cribs instead of one. Or overloading your dresser drawers with double the sleepers, booties and diapers. If you're pregnant with multiples, you might not know how to prepare your older children for the addition of more than one new person to the family.

Preparation During Pregnancy
First, you can start introducing your child to the concept of new siblings with books like Hello, Baby by Lizzy Rockwell (Dragonfly, 2000). Talk about what it will mean to have babies around the house – the crying, the nearly constant feedings – then explain that your family is lucky enough to be expecting multiple blessings.

When Jeanie Kesselring of Union City, Pa., learned at 20 weeks that she was carrying twin boys, her son, Austin, was already excited about the new arrival. "We had been doing the usual things like telling him how he was going to have the reall

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