About this blog

Hello, and welcome to my blog. It's mostly about attachment parenting twins, which my husband and I are doing as best we can.

That's attachment parenting as I understand it. I'm lousy at fundamentalism, so if you're looking for fights over slings versus strollers, please go elsewhere.

Girls, boys, or both?
- Girls.

Identical or fraternal?
- Fraternal... or, more accurately, sororal. They don't look a bit alike.

Do twins run in your family?
- I don't know. I'm adopted. More on this later. But what you really want to know is if I had fertility treatments.

Did you know you were going to have twins?
- Yes, from the ultrasounds. But what you really want to know is if I had fertility treatments.

I don't want to be rude, but did you have fertility treatments?
- Yes, you are being rude.

How much did they weigh at birth?
- One was 7 lbs, 8 oz, and the other was 6 lbs, 5 oz. They were full term. The formerly littler one is now bigger by a pound: 15.5 pounds to her sister's 14.5. They're four months old. I'm exclusively breastfeeding, though it took some struggle to get here.

Because I'm a little squeamish about blogging the whole blogosphere about my personal life, I'm only going to use my first name, Helen, my husband's first name, Daniel, and use my daughters' middle names as though they were their first: Lydia and Ada.

This blog mostly isn't for telling you the cute things Lydia and Ada did today, though you may find me frolicking in the extreme cuteness of it all on a regular basis. Its larger purpose is to explore the Great Angst of Parenting: why we do it the way we do ("we" being parents, in all our variety, especially "attachment" parents); the challenges of raising twins with a parenting style that is plenty consuming with one baby; Parenting and Society, Parenting and Culture, Parenting and Gender, Political Economy of Parenting, Psychology of Parenting, Ecology of Parenting, Philosophy of Parenting, Am I Ruining My Kids? Will We Ever Have Sex Again?... and so much more.

The blog may also be about anything else I care to write about. It is made in a facility that also handles milk, eggs, and soy, though it does not contain significant amounts of those, as my twins are allergic.

Please comment, but be aware that I moderate posts. So if you want to see your words in print here, make them thoughtful.