Product Description

"A Contented House with Twins" unites the UK's leading baby expert, Gina Ford, and the highly regarded television presenter Alice Beer, a mother of twin girls. Discovering you are expecting twins is both an exciting and a thoroughly terrifying prospect. Within weeks of the arrival of her beautiful daughters, Alice found that she was 'screaming out for a routine' and craving the knowledge of mothers who had been through it with two. This book is the result of those cries. Alice's front-line experience of coping with twins is combined with Gina's highly successful parenting advice, and, for the first time, her groundbreaking routines, specially adapted for twins. Together, they tackle the practical and emotional aspects of parenting two babies, including: what you can expect in a multiple pregnancy; how to feed two at once; what to do when they each want a different story or both want a hug; and how to cope with everyday practicalities - loading up the car, shopping, bath time, and much more. Alice's humorous insights and Gina's essential advice, tips, support and successful routines will guarantee that parents enjoy their twins and get their lives back.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #26617 in Books
• Published on: 2006-09-28
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 240 pages

From the Publisher
The only book to offer successful routines and practical guidance for enjoying, and surviving, twin babies

About the Author
Gina Ford has over twenty years' experience of looking after babies and young children. She has worked as a maternity nurse all over the world and is the author of eight parenting titles and her own website www.contentedbaby.com Alice Beer is one of the country's most recognisable names and faces in television. She has presented, produced and directed for the BBC since joining in 1987, working on series such as Watchdog, Healthcheck and Holiday.

Customer Reviews

A Contented House with Twins
Having purchased this book alongside The Contented Little Baby Book, I realised that the two are exactly the same. Alice Beer had it easy with her twins, what with a large house, a night nanny, and a husband who gave up work for some time to help out. Unfortunately for myself and other women who have given birth to twins, this would be a dream come true. The routines that were suggested were very regimented, anyone with babies and children will know that you cannot put a baby/child down to sleep and expect them to sleep there and then. all in all a very disappointing book which is a shame as I really like Alice Beer.

A book about babies or automatons?
I found this book very disappointing. There are so few good books about twins, and I had high hopes that this would provide helpful, practical advice. Instead, for the first 100 pages it goes on about the "CLB" (contended little baby) routines, as they are annoyingly called, as if the whole world knows what these are (if already familiar with these, why would you need this book?) without any explanation of what they consist of. Only on page 104 do you get to the heart of what the suggested routines are - right down to when you should change the babies' nappies and help yourself to a glass of water. I feel that the advice was written with automatons and not little people in mind, and that the routines are ridiculously inflexible. Alice Beer's contribution was vaguely interesting but she gushes annoyingly about the CLB routines. Yes, I agree that babies need routine and structure, but there are other ways of doing it without purchasing blackout blinds and avent bottles and two moses baskets. I suggest you buy the "secrets of the baby whisperer" instead, as this allows for the fact that babies are individuals and that all families have different needs and schedules.

Don't Bother
If you have twins and want to follow Gina's advice DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK. Simply buy the CLB book and work around the times. Whoever edited this book should be shot as there are references to tables that don't exist and they yatter on about amounts of milk but don't tell you what they are.
Routines are necessary for twins but this book isnt!