Multiple's Communities Online!
Shortly after I started blogging on RedRiverMoms.com, I received a comment from a Mom who was in another state but in a similar position as I had once been.
Much like I had done when I was pregnant, this Mom was spending as much of her bed rest scouring the internet to learn more about her unusual pregnancy and what to do with her babies once they arrived.
This lady had run across my blog and had been following it to get information on what to expect when her triplets were born. One day, I received a comment from her thanking me for being one of the ONLY sources out there that even attempted to admit exactly how a triplet mum went about feeding her trio.
You have to understand that for some reason or another, there just isn’t much information out there on what to do with higher order multiples once they are born. If anybody really knows, they seem to be mostly keeping it a big secret. This was one of the main reasons I jumped on the chance to blog about my experience and try and share as much of my experience with other mothers in similar situations.
I kept in touch with this Mother through out her pregnancy. I still read her blog and leave comments with ideas in answer to her posted questions. We have passed ideas on feeding, sleeping arrangements, and even how many diapers you can expect to go through in a given time period.
From our communication, and the lack of good information out there for people in our situation, has sprung a new website created by this lady’s husband.
The name of the new website is www.MultiplesNetwork.com. It is set up very similar to Facebook.com and is designed to create a better sense of community among those of us with higher order multiples!
The website is free to join and allows its users to create their own custom web pages, upload photos and video’s, and maintain a friend’s list. All entries are tagged for reference purposes so that if we are having any problems with our kids, we can easily search for solutions!
I encourage mothers, families, and friends of multiples to join. You can all link together and keep in touch with the goings on of your multiples! Some of us have been using similar set-ups to send out updates about our children and their antics to our friends and families.
Then there are people like me that use sites like this in place of baby books. I tend to write and upload photos into a similar site, then print them out at the end of each week and stick them into a binder that I have set aside for the babies.
There are three binders, one for each of my children. I find this method better than using a baby book because my kids will get to see the funny little day to day things that they did and came up with as opposed to just the amount of teeth they had at a certain age or what order they came in, or which toy was their favorite at age 5 months.
I have record of silly things like the way Vivienne loves to dance to VH-1 videos from the ‘80’s, or the time that Kai decided that he found a way to fly like superman and got side-tracked while balancing on his tummy on the rail of the play-yard and decided to watch his toes wiggle and fell, or how Kian prefers to toss all of the toys outside of the playpen as a game.
These sorts of sites are taking the internet by storm. Sites such as Preemie Connection, Triplet Connection, and the new Multiple's Network are giving us a way to access information not normally presented in printed form and a way to meet people all over the nation (world as well) that are in similar situations as we are. These web sites are allowing us to ban together in ways we never had access to before. I encourage you to try them out and see how they can help you and your family!
Much like I had done when I was pregnant, this Mom was spending as much of her bed rest scouring the internet to learn more about her unusual pregnancy and what to do with her babies once they arrived.
This lady had run across my blog and had been following it to get information on what to expect when her triplets were born. One day, I received a comment from her thanking me for being one of the ONLY sources out there that even attempted to admit exactly how a triplet mum went about feeding her trio.
You have to understand that for some reason or another, there just isn’t much information out there on what to do with higher order multiples once they are born. If anybody really knows, they seem to be mostly keeping it a big secret. This was one of the main reasons I jumped on the chance to blog about my experience and try and share as much of my experience with other mothers in similar situations.
I kept in touch with this Mother through out her pregnancy. I still read her blog and leave comments with ideas in answer to her posted questions. We have passed ideas on feeding, sleeping arrangements, and even how many diapers you can expect to go through in a given time period.
From our communication, and the lack of good information out there for people in our situation, has sprung a new website created by this lady’s husband.
The name of the new website is www.MultiplesNetwork.com. It is set up very similar to Facebook.com and is designed to create a better sense of community among those of us with higher order multiples!
The website is free to join and allows its users to create their own custom web pages, upload photos and video’s, and maintain a friend’s list. All entries are tagged for reference purposes so that if we are having any problems with our kids, we can easily search for solutions!
I encourage mothers, families, and friends of multiples to join. You can all link together and keep in touch with the goings on of your multiples! Some of us have been using similar set-ups to send out updates about our children and their antics to our friends and families.
Then there are people like me that use sites like this in place of baby books. I tend to write and upload photos into a similar site, then print them out at the end of each week and stick them into a binder that I have set aside for the babies.
There are three binders, one for each of my children. I find this method better than using a baby book because my kids will get to see the funny little day to day things that they did and came up with as opposed to just the amount of teeth they had at a certain age or what order they came in, or which toy was their favorite at age 5 months.
I have record of silly things like the way Vivienne loves to dance to VH-1 videos from the ‘80’s, or the time that Kai decided that he found a way to fly like superman and got side-tracked while balancing on his tummy on the rail of the play-yard and decided to watch his toes wiggle and fell, or how Kian prefers to toss all of the toys outside of the playpen as a game.
These sorts of sites are taking the internet by storm. Sites such as Preemie Connection, Triplet Connection, and the new Multiple's Network are giving us a way to access information not normally presented in printed form and a way to meet people all over the nation (world as well) that are in similar situations as we are. These web sites are allowing us to ban together in ways we never had access to before. I encourage you to try them out and see how they can help you and your family!
posted by Mimi Rankin Webb at 9:43 AM
Mimi is the mother of four: a 12 1/2-year-old boy and 1-year-old triplets (two boys and one girl). She is very happily busy taking care of everyone, whether it's the triplets' multiple doctor appointments, attempting a shopping excursion or volunteering to plan her son's school renaissance festival.
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