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Author<\/h2>\nAuthor<\/h2>\nMegan Woolsey and Alison Lee<\/p>\n
Megan Woolsey resides in Northern California with a very supportive husband and a wild bunch of red-headed children – a set of triplets and their big sister. She is a writer, editor, and avid movie watcher who began er journey into the professional world with her blog The Hip Mothership. Megan has been published in The Huffington Post, Scary Mommy, BLUNTMoms, BonBon Break, and is an essayist in two anthologies.<\/p>\n
Alison Lee is a writer, editor, and mother of four including boy\/ girl twins. In her non-existent free time, she writes about parenting and self-care (ironically). Alison lives in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia with her accidentally large family.<\/p>\n
Description<\/p>\n
Megan Woolsey and Alison Lee conceived Multiples Illuminated to shed light on the world of raising multiples.<\/p>\n
They wanted to write this book to offer the parents of multiples around the world something delicious to indulge in. There are words of wisdom and personal stories that we hope will inspire them and make them proud to be a part of the world of multiples.<\/p>\n
Multiples Illuminated dives deep into the world of raising multiples with beautiful stories and helpful advice. In it, you will find essays on:
\n\u00b7 Infertility help and hope
\n\u00b7 Finding out and coping with a multiples pregnancy
\n\u00b7 Stories of labor and delivery
\n\u00b7 Stories from the NICU
\n\u00b7 Breastfeeding best practices for multiples
\n\u00b7 Surviving the infant and toddler stages<\/p>\n
Multiples Illuminated is a compelling collection of stories from writers and parents of multiples, as well as expert advice that is a must-have for all parents and grandparents of multiples. Having multiples is one of the most wonderful and challenging experiences you will have in your life. Whether you\u2019re expecting multiples, or a few years into the multiples club, you will find stories you love in Multiples Illuminated.<\/p>\n
Excerpt from Extreme Pregnancy by Eileen Manion.<\/p>\n
The technician turned the monitor around so I could see the screen. With her index finger, she pointed to what she claimed were three fetal heartbeats. I remained unconvinced.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll get a doctor.\u201d Maybe she was annoyed that I didn\u2019t believe her.<\/p>\n
She returned in a few minutes with a thin, elderly gentleman in a white coat. The two of them gazed intently at the screen.<\/p>\n
\u201cThose are the first triplets we\u2019ve had since we got this new equipment.\u201d The doctor looked impressed. Both of them seemed so pleased with the achievement of their state-of-the-art machine that they\u2019d forgotten all about me.<\/p>\n
\u201cCan I survive this pregnancy?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n
\u201cOh, don\u2019t worry. You\u2019re healthy. You\u2019ll be fine.\u201d<\/p>\n
To me, he sounded very cavalier: what did he know about my health? He\u2019d barely glanced at me in his intent pleasure with the hospital\u2019s new technology.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe haven\u2019t had many triplets on the Island. Only two sets that I remember.\u201d The doctor was still chatting with the ultrasound technician, leaving me to climb off the table and pull up my pants.<\/p>\n
That question about drugs\u2014she\u2019d meant fertility, not recreational. No. I hadn\u2019t taken those either. I was so convinced that I\u2019d been rendered infertile by scarring from a bad case of pelvic inflammatory disease in the early 1970s that I\u2019d stopped worrying about birth control several years earlier.<\/p>\n
All that was running through my mind as I staggered out of the hospital to tell my partner, Norman, the news.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re going to think I\u2019m joking, but I\u2019m not.\u201d<\/p>\n
Since neither of us knew anything about multiples, we headed straight to Charlottetown\u2019s largest bookstore and bought the only volume they had on twins and triplets. Most of the book was about twins; all sorts of studies had been done on twins, but triplets? Not much. It occurred to me that there just hadn\u2019t yet been enough of them for psychologists and other researchers to study. Twins often appear in myth, fiction, and fable, but triplets?<\/p>\n
After I\u2019d read enough about the risks of triplet pregnancy and premature birth, I surmised that before the existence of modern neonatal ICUs, not many triplets survived to make it into myth or fiction or history. Unless you count the Fates, or the Trinity\u2014God as triplets?<\/p>\n
When friends heard news of my extreme pregnancy, they were amused by the cosmic joke. I was probably the least kid-savvy person in my social circle. Whenever colleagues had children, I always offered to babysit to help out the new parents, but none ever asked me to do it more than once. I took this as a sign of my ineptitude. In truth, I was frightened of babies. They seemed fragile, unpredictable, and smelly. You couldn\u2019t discuss novels with them or even gossip, so my limited repertoire of social interaction was useless.<\/p>\n
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