this is a great book for women expecting multiples. it helped me get through my complicated twin pregnancy. as a physician, i was able to appreciate the book from both the physician standpoint as well as the patient standpoint. it is well written. it not only details how you should care for yourself/your expectant ones but also provides an informative reference source for various unexpected medical issues which may arise.

There are many books out there on singleton pregnancies but I wasn't finding much on multiples in the book stores. Even my first OB/GYN (I switched because of this) didn't seem to have much information that was specific for multiples.
One of my first questions was how much weight should I gain and how much should I be eating. This book outlines this very clearly and was much different from what you read about singletons. It also covers those questions you have about delivery, reducing complication risks, nursing two babies and managing two or more at once. This book helped quiet much of my anxiety and gave me the answers I was looking for.
I would also recommend two other books that I used alot: Baby Bargains, which rates and reviews all the baby items you will need for the new baby/babies and The Baby Name Wizard, which lists names but then also categorizes them by types: breezy, classic, exotic etc and gives good pairing of names for siblings.

After seeing pregnancy with multiples passed over lightly in virtually every pregnancy advice book, this book is a welcome relief. We who are carrying twins (or more) are really having a somewhat different experience of pregnancy than those with singles, and we get a lot of bad advice. The most painful of this bad advice is, not surprisingly, around weight gain, as we tend to bulk up MUCH more quickly, based simply on the fact that we are hefting twice the amount of baby and baby support system. At last, a common-sensical book to tell us what we should and should not be doing, based on our somewhat different situation, and to give us the facts we need to deal with our friends, employers, and physicians.

Where this book falls a little flat is in its consistent need to advertise itself within its pages to us readers who have already bought it. One feels as though the author cannot stop selling her knowledge, as if she cannot believe that we actually have purchased her book. This rather obsessive need makes her move the more useful chapters on eating and fetal development back farther into the book, making a reader wade through a few preliminary chapters in which she repeatedly tries to prove her credentials to us.

Also, this author seems to think a twin pregnancy starts at about 10 weeks. As an older mom who got unexpectedly pregnant, I have been closely monitored since Week 4, so I wished for some info about these earlier weeks. Considering the number of IVF moms I've met since becoming pregnant, I suspect that many of us know about our multiples earlier than Week 10. Information on "vanishing twins" also would be extremely helpful as well, since knowing about one's pregnancy with multiples at this early stage often leads physicians to endlessly talk about this possibility with us.

But these minor issues should, by no means, stop you from buying this book and reading it from cover to cover. It really does have what you need to know, and I have found it a godsend during my twin pregnancy. The author's determined seriousness about the uniqueness of our situation when we are bearing multiples and her insistence that we treat our pregnancies as different from the normal singleton one have been a great boon to me. I have learned what to tell even my Ob/gyn, let alone my boss and friends, about issues such as weight gain, bedrest, and my use of a maternal-fetal specialist. I know that I am eating and caring for myself in a better, more healthy way that supports my unique pregnancy. The advice herein is worth every penny.

This is one of the two books I read about having twins. Highly recommend. Very educational about the gestation, and what one may expect at the birth. I am always on the go, and it was so hard to slow down. It validated the exhaustion I felt, and reaffirmed the rest a pregnant mother, especially of twins really needs. A must read!

I have never cared enough to write a review before, but I can't say enough good things about this book. I am pregnant with twins, and a full time physician. Even with all of my medical school training, there was much I didn't know about carrying multiples. This book has given me a sense of control of the situation, and some guidelines to maximize the twins' chances of a healthy pregnancy. This book tells what you can do to help your self and your babies, and what to expect with all of the things that don't happen in a singleton pregnancy! Well worth your time and money.