Announcing TwinParenthood’s 2011 Christmas Photo Sharing Giveaway!

We are so excited to announce an end of year giveaway in honor of Christmas!

Super easy to enter. Please just come to our Facebook Page, “like” us, and share your photo on our wall. That’s it!

One random winner will be selected from all Christmas, New Year’s or winter scene photos posted to our Facebook wall anytime in December — ending January 2, 2012 at 11:59:59 pm PDT. Winner to be announced within 48 hours.

What can you win you ask?

We have a STROLL-AIR DOUBLE STROLLER ORGANIZER/CONSOLE:
• attaches to most strollers on the market
• mounts horizontally and vertically
• two sets of double insulated bottle / drink holders, one with drawstring for each set
• larger compartment in the middle of each set with pockets and a key clip inside

Extra entries

Do any of the following to receive an extra entry into our contest. You must come back here and post a comment (one for each extra entry) with a link to your extra entry.

1. Tweet About It: Post a Christmas photo at TwinParenthood to win a Stroll-Air Double Stroller Organizer! http://bit.ly/sedn87 #tph #twintuesday #giveaway
2. Share it on Facebook. (Click the “share” link from our TwinParenthood 2011 Christmas Photo Sharing Giveaway album.
3. Like it on Facebook. (Click the “like” link on our TwinParenthood 2011 Christmas Photo Sharing Giveaway album.

As usual, please refer to our contest rules page for all the little details you might need. So come post some photos and have some fun!

Good Luck!

Check out this great Giveaway hosted by our friends at rookie moms.

It is full of great essentials for Baby’s First Year x 2!

Look at all the great stuff! Visit rookie moms for details.
2 BRICA Fold ‘n Go Travel Bassinets
2 extra fitted sheets (each bassinet comes w/ one)
2 Fold ‘n Go Booster Seats
2 BRICA Snack Pods
2 BRICA Clip-on Wipes Case, plus 3 refills (for each
2 BRICA Baby In-Sight Mirror
2 BRICA UV Alert Shades

Enter to win at rookie moms by Friday, July 22nd by adding your best advice for new parents of twins.

Happy Halloween, Twin Parents! and a Giveaway!

We love Halloween! It is so fun to dress up the kids and hit all the parties and go trick – or – treating. We’d love to see pictures of all your little ones in costume (and your big ones, too!).

So… we’re hosting a Giveaway to encourage you to post pictures in our membership community. Winner will be drawn randomly from all who post a photo, so don’t worry that your photo is not “expert” quality — we just want to share photos… everyday, every parent, every family type of photos.

Please come share pictures of your family in Halloween costumes or just “Fall Harvest” type setting, for a chance to win a set of Mommy Calling Cards from Little Peanut Cards! (Or… daddy calling cards!)

Little Peanut Cards has fabulous cards to choose from!

What are Mommy Calling Cards?

Have you ever been to the park, and strike up an impromptu friendship with another mom with kids the same age as yours? Your kids are getting along beautifully and you’d love to get together sometime. You grab your diaper bag and fumble around for a piece of paper and pen to jot down your name and number to exchange. Awkward! Why not reach for a Mommy Calling Card, instead? Mommy Calling Cards can include the names of your kids — making it easy for your new friend to remember both you
and the kids.

One lucky winner of our TwinParenthood membership community on BigTent will win a set of 50 Mommy Calling Cards from Little Peanut Cards. Winner will be selected by random drawing from all members that submit a photo to our Halloween Photo
Contest Album in our membership community on BigTent by 11:59:59 p.m. PDT on Tuesday November 2nd, 2010.

Not a member of our community? It’s super easy to join: TwinParenthood.com/Members.

Complete Contest Rules are available here. 

Come share your photos today!

When did your twins sleep through the night?

Sleeping through the night with twins — the ultimate goal, the ultimate bliss for sleep deprived parents. Getting a singleton to sleep through the night is a major goal for new parents, but add a second baby into the mix and sleeping through the night becomes not only a goal, but a necessity.

There are many things you can do to move your twins in the direction of sleeping through the night — but before we go there, let us make sure we’re all on the same page. Let us define “sleeping through the night”. According to Marc Weissbluth, M.D., author of the bestselling classic “Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child” and his latest, “Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Twins”, a more helpful term and thing to aim for is “organized night sleep“. He says, “When your twins have a long block of uninterrupted sleep lasting four to six hours, usually occurring before midnight, you can make this claim.” He goes further to say that you still might be feeding them once or twice during the night at this point.

According to Weissbluth, this milestone typically starts to happen at about or just past six weeks (counting from the due date). For sleep deprived parents of new twins, the news that babies still might being fed once or twice during the night might be slightly depressing news. Unless you are intentionally feeding your twinfants at the same time, this could mean 4 wakings in the night at the point in which your twins are technically, according to Weissbluth, “sleeping through the night”!

Gently encouraging your twins to sleep through the night can begin at a very young age.  But, often times, as parents of twins we are just so tired that we miss the golden opportunities when they are infants and may have to deal with some course corrections when they are a bit older.  For babies that are older than six months and still not sleeping through the night, you might explore the “Wake Up Light System” to help your babies learn when it is okay to wake up and when they should be sleeping.

So today, we have a special #tph Question of the Day, “When did your twins begin sleeping through the night? How long was the longest sleep streach at that point? And… do you have any tips to share with other parents to help move twins in that direction?”

Giveaway – “Happy Sleep Habits, Happy Twins”

By answering our question today, you will be entered to receive a copy of Dr. Weissbluth’s extremely helpful book, “Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Twins – A Step-by-Step Program for Sleep-Training Your Multiples“.  Please be sure to leave a comment with your email address for eligibility.

You may leave a comment either here (below) or on our Question of the Day in our membership community. If you do both, you will receive 2 entries to win!

Giveaway is open to residents of US and Canada only (sorry folks!). Full giveaway rules are available on our Rules page.  Contest ends 11:59:59 pm, October 12, 2010 PST.

Winner!

Our contest winner is Erin Thomson.  Congratulations, Erin!  Hope you make good use of Dr. Weissbluth’s book. Dr. Weissbluth is extremely wise in these matters!  

Best~

In honor of the launch of our membership community on BigTent, TwinParenthood has put together a Colossal Gift Basket full of fantastic products from our awesome sponsors for one lucky winner.

Are you overwhelmed and bogged down… finding it tough to make it through the day, the next hour, the next minute? Are you newly expecting twins and afraid of what you don’t know? Are you getting more than a double-dose of twin parenthood isolation? Then you need to join TwinParenthood — in the ‘hood — under the BigTent.

TwinParenthood is very proud to announce our new membership community and twins forums.

TwinParenthood is a place for parents of twins and multiples to connect for support and information as we share the joys and struggles of twin parenthood. Connecting. Learning. Growing.

Simply become a member in our new twins community and you will be entered to win! There are opportunities for extra entries — check out all the details on our Colossal Gift Basket Giveaway Page.

Winner will be randomly selected from all entries received by 11:59:59 pm PDT, September 30, 2010.

TwinParenthood is very proud to announce the launch our Facebook fan page!

And, we’re especially excited that our friends over at dillyhearts are sponsoring a terrific giveaway in honor of our launch!

Today, we are so excited here at TwinParenthood to be launching our Fan Page on Facebook with our very first ever Giveaway. Our wonderful sponsors for this special giveaway are our great friends over at Dillyhearts. Dillyhearts has personalized and adorably stylish handcrafted gifts that keep their customers coming back for more.

My personal favorites are the super-soft minkee items: toddler pillows and baby blankets (in 3 sizes). When you choose the available name personalization, these make for terrific twin gifts.

In addition to their great minkee items, Dillyhearts offers thick and absorbent cotton baby bibs, full-coverage toddler bibs, and must-have burp cloths, created in hip and adorable styles for your little ones.

Need a stand-out shower gift? Dillyhearts specializes in fabulous gift bundles, cool themed bib sets, and adorable personalized tooth fairy pillows. You’ll find lots of chic and sweet styles for girls, and cool, classic and fun styles for boys. All of their adorable products are handmade-to-order in their home studio, and they only offer limited quantities of each item to keep styles fresh and unique.

Dillyhearts is giving away customized twin-set ultra-soft minkee cuddle blankets to one lucky fan on May 1, 2010!Dillyhearts ultra-soft minkee blankets are pure tactile delight that your babies will adore. What is minkee??? It is a plush, 100% polyester micro-chenille fabric that comes in a variety of heavenly textures and colors. Sooooo soft to the touch…it’s been described “like the soft fur of a baby rabbit.” One touch and you’ll be hooked!Dillyhearts’ ultra-soft travel-size minkee cuddle blankets are the perfect take-along mini-snuggler for babies on the go. Measuring approximately 18×18, they are handmade, top-stitched, rolled and tied with a coordinating ribbon. Pick your favorite styles & colors (front & back) for a delightful combination! Dillyhearts’ giveaway includes customization / personalization — winner chooses colors, font, and (of course) names for your twin-set cuddle blankets.

It’s super easy to enter our giveaway!

Simply do both of the following:

• Become a Fan of TwinParenthood on Facebook
• Become a Facebook Fan of dillyhearts

That’s it! How easy is that?

For extra entries: After becoming a fan of TwinParenthood and dillyhearts, head over to our Facebook discussion page and leave a comment –filling in the blank on our discussion topic: “Before I had twins, I thought that ___________.” Tweet about our contest! Just tweet the following, “Become a Facebook Fan of TwinParenthood & Dillyhearts for a chance to win super soft twin cuddle blankets: http://bit.ly/aV9uA9” Then, leave a comment with a link to your tweet below. We’ll likely be adding additional ways to earn extra entries during the month of April, so check back with us.

May 1, 2010 Update: 

Drumroll Please….. Our winner of the 2 super soft personalized cuddle blankets from Dillyhearts is Holly C! Congratulations Holly! I know you will love these blankets. Dillyhearts’ handmade products are simply bliss for your little ones.