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Holy Sh*t...I'm Having Twins!: The Definitive Guide to Remaining Calm When You're Twice as Freaked Out
A MUST-HAVE BOOK FOR NEW OR EXPECTANT PARENTS OF TWINS!
"Smart, funny and refreshingly real advice that will change your life." --Hollie Gyarmati, Author of The Mother of All Makeovers , designer & mom of 5 (including two sets of twins) Seventeen years ago, Elizabeth Lyons wrote the bestselling, side-splittingly funny guide to managing twins in the first year. That book was a bestseller for over a decade. Since then, times have changed—and so has navigating Year One with twins (or any baby, for that matter).
Holy Sh*t...I'm Having Twins! features the very best of Lyons’ hard-won advice (as well as that of fellow twin moms and dads), updated and expanded for today’s new and expectant parents of twins, triplets, and more. If raising one newborn was a workout (and it is), raising two (or more) is like competing in an Ironman…backward…while wearing banana slippers. Well-meaning friends will try to prepare you for the endurance event that lies ahead, but only a seasoned parent, writer, and mom of twins (who has three additional kids to boot) can do it with the honest, belly-laugh humor and tried-and-true strategies you don't even know you need (yet). Topics
★ Money-Saving Secrets to Acquiring What You Really Need, What you Need Two of, and What You Can Skip Altogether
★ How to Stay Connected to the Person Who Got You Into This Mess
★ Breastfeeding Twins (Two Mouths + Two Breasts = Not as Simple As It Sounds)
★ Why It’s Okay and Won’t Thwart Their Admission to Harvard
★ Fielding Unsolicited Advice and Stories from the Trenches
★ Getting Twins on a Schedule (Preferably the Same One)
★ How to Return to Work (and Speak Coherently and Intelligently While There)
★ How to NOT Return to Work, If That's Your Choice (and Speak Coherently and Intelligently to People at the Grocery Store)
If you’re overwhelmed, terrified, tired of people lamenting how hard just one baby is, and wondering if you’ll ever shower in peace again, you’re in the right place.
Settle in and let Elizabeth and her crew provide you with the reassurance you're craving. EDITORIAL REVIEWS "The advice you need in the short, funny format your sleep-deprived mind can absorb."
- Lisa Earle McLeod, bestselling author of Forget Perfect
"Elizabeth Lyons' humorous yet realistic perspective provides new parents of twins with a great starting point from which to embark on that all-important first year."
- Dr. Bob Covert, leading Chicagoland neonatologist
"Elizabeth Lyons captures the universal discourse of sisterhood while guiding new mothers of twins through the first year."
- Kathy Voit, RNC, Labor and Delivery nurse
"Smart, funny and refreshingly real advice that will change your life." --Hollie Gyarmati, Author of The Mother of All Makeovers , designer & mom of 5 (including two sets of twins) Seventeen years ago, Elizabeth Lyons wrote the bestselling, side-splittingly funny guide to managing twins in the first year. That book was a bestseller for over a decade. Since then, times have changed—and so has navigating Year One with twins (or any baby, for that matter).
Holy Sh*t...I'm Having Twins! features the very best of Lyons’ hard-won advice (as well as that of fellow twin moms and dads), updated and expanded for today’s new and expectant parents of twins, triplets, and more. If raising one newborn was a workout (and it is), raising two (or more) is like competing in an Ironman…backward…while wearing banana slippers. Well-meaning friends will try to prepare you for the endurance event that lies ahead, but only a seasoned parent, writer, and mom of twins (who has three additional kids to boot) can do it with the honest, belly-laugh humor and tried-and-true strategies you don't even know you need (yet). Topics
★ Money-Saving Secrets to Acquiring What You Really Need, What you Need Two of, and What You Can Skip Altogether
★ How to Stay Connected to the Person Who Got You Into This Mess
★ Breastfeeding Twins (Two Mouths + Two Breasts = Not as Simple As It Sounds)
★ Why It’s Okay and Won’t Thwart Their Admission to Harvard
★ Fielding Unsolicited Advice and Stories from the Trenches
★ Getting Twins on a Schedule (Preferably the Same One)
★ How to Return to Work (and Speak Coherently and Intelligently While There)
★ How to NOT Return to Work, If That's Your Choice (and Speak Coherently and Intelligently to People at the Grocery Store)
If you’re overwhelmed, terrified, tired of people lamenting how hard just one baby is, and wondering if you’ll ever shower in peace again, you’re in the right place.
Settle in and let Elizabeth and her crew provide you with the reassurance you're craving. EDITORIAL REVIEWS "The advice you need in the short, funny format your sleep-deprived mind can absorb."
- Lisa Earle McLeod, bestselling author of Forget Perfect
"Elizabeth Lyons' humorous yet realistic perspective provides new parents of twins with a great starting point from which to embark on that all-important first year."
- Dr. Bob Covert, leading Chicagoland neonatologist
"Elizabeth Lyons captures the universal discourse of sisterhood while guiding new mothers of twins through the first year."
- Kathy Voit, RNC, Labor and Delivery nurse
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294 pages, Paperback
Published December 15, 2016
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About the author
Elizabeth Lyons
34 books9 followersElizabeth Lyons is many things: mom, friend, writing and publishing coach, lunch maker, chauffeur, hostage negotiator, author, on-call plumber, tile layer, guitar student, window washer, designer, and on and on.
She demands the right to do things her way -- a way that often defies even the most creative imaginations--and she strives to inspire others to do things THEIR way (once they figure out what their way is!).
Elizabeth lives in Arizona with her five kids, crazy dog, four barely surviving organic gardens and whatever (or whomever) has taken up residence with them since her latest manuscript went to print.
She demands the right to do things her way -- a way that often defies even the most creative imaginations--and she strives to inspire others to do things THEIR way (once they figure out what their way is!).
Elizabeth lives in Arizona with her five kids, crazy dog, four barely surviving organic gardens and whatever (or whomever) has taken up residence with them since her latest manuscript went to print.
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October 20, 2018
I love Elizabeth Lyons and wish that she lived here and was my friend.
August 17, 2020
Unlike several other multiples books I’ve read, this one offers a lot of truly practical advice. At times her honesty actually freaked me out a bit but I do feel better prepared for my own twins now.
Docking a star for a couple of outdated or incorrect pieces of information (eg, Ferber does NOT recommend letting your baby “scream until he falls asleep;” in fact, Lyons’ beloved Weissbluth is much harsher than Ferber. Also, the AAP no longer advises withholding allergens for 1+ year).
Docking a star for a couple of outdated or incorrect pieces of information (eg, Ferber does NOT recommend letting your baby “scream until he falls asleep;” in fact, Lyons’ beloved Weissbluth is much harsher than Ferber. Also, the AAP no longer advises withholding allergens for 1+ year).
January 26, 2018
Real
I am expecting twin in a couple of months, and every "baby book" I read for twins just felt like robotic instructions... The author made me feel like we were friends and she was giving helpful advice. I somehow now feel like I might actually survive two babies at one time.
I am expecting twin in a couple of months, and every "baby book" I read for twins just felt like robotic instructions... The author made me feel like we were friends and she was giving helpful advice. I somehow now feel like I might actually survive two babies at one time.
July 13, 2020
A useful read if you are a first time parent and find yourself expecting twins. I already have two older children close in age, so much of the book covered stuff I already knew (parenting tips, general baby care, sibling interaction, etc).
January 1, 2021
This book was funny. It would be a good book for first time moms who are having twins. I found a lot of it not applicable.
November 15, 2023
I felt like I was listening to a friend give advice and I liked how she included what her friends did too! However, this is more geared towards new moms.
May 10, 2025
More of a cheerleading book for twins than very instructional book. fun to read just not what I was hoping for.
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