
TypicalTwins


Back from holiday – elbow pains…
I apologise for the silence here. There was a school holiday in Belgium and we took the boys to a holiday park last week. We […]

Announcing twins
We were over the moon when we realised we were expecting twins. Of course it did take a few weeks to get used to the […]

In the news: 2 sets of twins in a year…
In the news this week: a lady from Suffolk (UK) gave birth to her second set of twins within a year… Last year she had […]


The twin shopping trolley
I first heard about twin-shopping-trolleys in a Facebookgroup for twin moms in the Netherlands. More and more moms seem to have asked their local supermarket […]

The feeding logbook
Our first months with the twins were completely exhausting. Our whole day revolved around feeding them, changing their nappies and sleeping, especially sleeping. Their sleeping […]

‘When I don’t sleep, nobody sleeps’
Having twins meant that we had more than two years of bad nights full of interrupted sleep. The first months with new-borns are like that […]

How many nannies?
Having twins is exhausting, especially the first three months when they need to be fed at least 7- 8 times a day and there is […]

Welcome to TwinTales!
Welcome to Twintales! My name is Carien and I am a mother of non-identical twin boys born in 2015. The first two years after they […]