Families with twins or triplets - Getting together

I'm from the Seattle area and have twin boys. Here, there are several active "Mothers of Multipes" groups - the one I belong to has 400+ families! Is there such a thing in Munich? I guess judging by the way people have a hard time finding regular playgroups, something for multiples might be over the top! Just thought I'd ask though.

We are also from Seattle and went to EMOMS for awhile. I have b/g twins who will be 3 in October. If there is interest in a get together or more communication let me know.

http://www.twins.de/zeitschrift_zwillinge/

My mom still has pictures of my sister and I with a bunch of other twins at one of those twin club meetings when I was a little girl. I have no recollection of it. It all seems a bit much to me.

I say treat 'em like two different people rather than emphasizing their twin-ness. It's hard enough sorting out an individual identity as a twin as it is.

Being in a twin group isn't about "celebrating their twinness", at least for me. It's about getting together with people who understand what it's like to have multiples. There are different challenges when you have two babies at the same time. The group that I belong to here (in Seattle) has been a wealth of information - online and in person - as well as great people to buy stuff off of, and get rid of stuff. I wouldn't want to go to big huge group meetings, but rather get to know a few parents and get together in smaller groups.

Believe me, I am all about raising them as individuals! But once in awhile, it sure is nice to be with others that don't ask the same questions or say the same things.

I am another American mom of twins living in Munich. My girls are 22 months old. I have a friend here who just gave birth to twin boys and I'm sure she'd like to know another woman who has lived through the same. I was in a group in the US also, but have not gone to a group here. However, I know a few German women with twins that I have met at playgrounds, in the neighborhood, etc. Email me if you'd like to get together! beckateliza@yahoo.com

Let me know if you guys want to get together. I can offer my place if it is just a few moms and kids or are we talking just moms. There may be an advantage to doing sometimes moms and sometimes kids and moms. Can you guys get out without your kids sometimes? Just a thought so we could actually talk. Another idea if you can't we could all pitch in to hire a babysitter or mothers helper to watch the kids play while we talk.

I am so excited now knowing that there are some twin moms in TT! My husband starts his job on Oct. 25, but the whole family won't move over until Dec. 1st or thereabouts.

Sometimes thinking about the whole stroller situation and stairs makes me kind of nervous. Here at my house in the 'burbs, I have the stroller in the driveway, put one of them in, go back in the house, up the stairs, get the other, then come back down. But if you live in an apartment w/stairs, how are you supposed to do it? Lugging a stroller up and down w/2 babies does NOT seem fun!

most leave the stroller by the front door. my building has three (3!) people doing that. Don't know how you do it with twins though.

my mom, who raised 5 children, and I once watched my twin nephews for about an hour or two when they were 5 months old while my brother and sister in law headed off to the beach for a little while to give their 3 year old daughter some focused attention. what a nightmare, and it was only a few hours. I don't know how you people do it!

I have no idea how my mother did it either. When my twin sisters were born (a month early), I was not yet 2 and my sister had just turned 4. Poor thing!

When my sister and I were born, my mom already had 3-year-old and 6-year-old boys. My grandma and grandpa moved in to help out.

So, I had a lot of help with my twins who are now almost 3 and yet still I was in these hard situations alone too. I had a double stroller in my house and strolled them both to the car and then put them each in. I had to do this to drive my then three year old son to school. Everything can be done it just takes much longer. My errand list got shorter. I couldn't expect to do as many things as I used to as fast as I did them with one or no kids. Now it sill takes a bit of time to get in the car and the train well... Lets see in Munich once the older boy and boy twin decided not to get ont he escalater so I was going up with my girl twin alone! Two women who must have thought stupid American brought my kids up the escalater. Another time my little girl also went up but fell and oiled her legs. Now we all hold hands and we get on on three or we take the stairs a lot. (Unfortunately I am claustraphobic and afraid of elevators.) The good news for people who use them they are all around the train stations here. I have also had lots of people help me with my stroller. Again It all takes time. I do prefer my car a lot and don't mind circling to park versus having to change trains with my little ones too many times. We have begun creating CDs on my computer and they like having choices of the songs we put on the kids cool music in our car. Well enough about that. Good to have more than one stroller. One for your house/apt and one for the car. If the kids are little a backpack is good or front pack and then the other could go in the stroller. Did grocery shopping this way. Just watch for yanks on hair as they get bigger. One of my struggles now is to potty train or retrain my son who was trained last summer til I broke my foot and put everyone back in diapers. Now my daughter is trained and he is not.