Welcome! This site actively promotes breastfeeding and creating strong physical and emotional attachments with each unique child, especially those arriving as members of a set — each twin, triplet, quad, quintuplet… You get the picture!
Come on in. Relax and make yourself at home. I hope you will find reassurance and affirmation for all your efforts to lovingly nurture twins, triplets or more.
La
Leche League International is proud to announce that the highly
anticipated third revised edition of Mothering Multiples by Karen
Kerkhoff Gromada is now available!
Mothering Multiples provides valuable information with an emphasis on breastfeeding and attachment-style parenting. All aspects of caring for multiple babies are addressed in this book, including possible complications of pregnancy, preparing for a multiple birth, coping with newborns who might need to spend time in a NICU, establishing a milk supply for multiple babies, adjusting as a couple, and caring for toddler multiples.
Karen
Kerkhoff Gromada, M.S.N., R.N., I.B.C.L.C. is currently employed as a
lactation consultant by TriHealth hospitals in Cincinnati, OH. In the
past she worked as an adjunct clinical instructor for the departments of
Parent-Child Nursing, and Community, Adult and Psychiatric (CAP) Nursing
at the University of Cincinnati, College of Nursing and as a lactation
consultant for University Hospital. Ms. Gromada has worked in labor and
delivery, childbirth education and early postpartum discharge care.
While completing a Masters of Science in Nursing degree in mental health
nursing, her clinical practicums were in out-patient psychotherapy.