It's funny. As a Mom expecting multiples, I read up on as much as I could about what life with multiples was going to be like.  I found accounts of pregnancy's documented in blog-form on the Internet.  I scoured through the Triplet Connection website and forum and happily read all about which car seats would fit inside which car or minivan and in what ways.  I even read all about reports of which stroller type would be best and easiest to drive.  What I didn't run across, however, was information or accounts about experiences mother's of higher order multiples would have with taking their babies out in public to try and achieve mundane every day life-tasks.  Nobody seems to feel it necessary to warn unsuspecting new mothers of exactly what lies ahead for them and their babies.  They are all in to telling you about how to dress them, how to feed them, even how to be their advocate while the babies are in the hospital.  Apparently, its an off limit's subject to warn

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My triplets are officially 17 months old now. They have come quite a long way from the tiny preemies that they were when they were first born.  They can talk, cruise, and of course bite and pull hair and blow air kissies.  Along the way, they have reached many milestones, some of which I thought would never come.  They learned to drink out of a bottle, they cut their first teeth, and started pulling up.  They even finally started getting bigger. In fact, once they started growing, apparently there is no stopping them!  They have outgrown everything from their clothes and toys to the most disconcerting item, their play-yard.  It is one of those "Rug-rat's" type play-yards that look like a bunch of baby gates linked together.  It even has an extension in it to make it big enough for three, or so I had thought.  With the birth of our triplets, we officially out-grew our 2 bedroom home. We have made it work for much longer than anyone had imagined possible.  Since Christmas,

Everything is different when you have multiples. Because they are born early and with their siblings, they develop at a different rate than a single-born baby.  This means that they are smaller and do not do the same things at the same time as other babies that are the same “Age” as they are do.  My trio rolled over later, learned to sit up later and didn’t even cut teeth until they were a little over nine months old.  Actually, only one of my triplets can even walk and they are currently 16 months old.  I don’t know if it is because they are tinier than normal babies, or if it is because I have babied them too much, but this go-round I have been a bit more lax in the discipline department.  My eldest was disciplined from the beginning as I could recognize that he understood what it was that I meant.  My triplets have been different in that I just haven’t thought that they would understand the concepts of right or wrong yet.  Don’t get me wrong, I have been teaching them the differenc

I have noticed something different about baby wipes in this day and age.  It's an odd subject, I know, but really I have.  Once upon a time, when Bregon was a baby, I seem to remember cheerful diaper changes with much laughing and giggling and silliness (not enough to cause an accident of course!)  I don't recall any unhappiness or outbursts of the "Owie's" or anything dreary of that sort.  Fast forward to this day and age, and it seems that every time I go to change one of my babies' diapers, there is a sudden downpour of tears and wriggling and "Ouch" noises echoing throughout my house!  I just couldn't figure out why this was happening until the other day.  It would seem that I have become one of those trusting consumers that has quite taken for granted that a product designed for something as sensitive as a baby's bottom would actually be soft and gentle.  I have been conditioned since I was a child to think that products that include th

It's very quiet right now, considering it's about four in the afternoon.  As of late it's been very noisy for some reason or another.  My trio are all cutting molars and various other teeth in odd places.  This means that they are teething. Teething means that ANY object that can fit in their mouth must be BITTEN and often!  This process has involved chewing on such things as a tiny moose figurine (sorry Tyrone) that apparently is best chewed upon if you insert the antlers into your very wide open mouth and twist it a bit to where you can get those antlers in between the gaps in your teeth so that the missing ones can be enticed to break the skin.  Unfortunately for the moose, that pesky tooth has yet to break the skin yet.  Sadly for my teething toddler, that moose's antlers just BARELY fit into his mouth so he has to open super wide to even be able to have the chance to maneuver it into his mouth.  The laws of physics just are NOT in either party's favor here.  K

Hearing your baby giggle for the first time is almost as priceless as the first time they look at you and smile for real (not just because they have gas!)  At first, my husband and I loved making the babies laugh just so we could listen to their little giggles.  They each have a different giggle, too. Kian’s is warm and fuzzy and has a little bit of a growl to it.  Vivie’s is light and airy and full of mischief. And Kai, well Kai’s is just an outright guffaw most of the time as he puts every bit of emotion he has in his tiny body into it.  Once upon a time, we used to tickle their tiny tummies just to hear them giggle.  Now-a-day’s, I have figured out that tiny baby giggles often mean trouble!  As the babies grew, I would learn that their giggles meant more than just an amusement for mummie and daddy!  My kids love to revel in each other’s misfortune and their giggles often signify that one of them is in a compromising position!  You have to remember, that most multiples are born with