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Naming Multiples

I went to grade school with triplets named Kerry, Jerry and Mary and for the longest time I thought it was a requirement for multiples to have names that rhymed. I learned otherwise when I went to summer camp in junior high and met triplets named John, Andrea and Molly. If you had a hard time coming up with a name for your singleton child, consider how daunting it must be for parents of multiples to settle on names for all of their children. In the case of twins there seems to be an unwritten rule that both children should … Continue reading →

Wonder Twins

If you thought having twins would reduce the number of individual birthday parties you had to host each year, you might want to chat with some parents who learned the hard way that giving birth to multiples doesn’t always mean having children that share the same date of birth. Case in point: Beckett and Freya Humenny. The brother and sister are twins, but they weren’t born on the same day. In fact, they weren’t even born in the same year. According to news reports, the twins’ mom went into labor on December 31, 2011, five weeks before her due date. … Continue reading →

Talk About Timing

You can’t control when a child is born. Or can you? This week, thousands of pregnant women are doing whatever it takes to score a designer birthday for their son or daughter-to-be. The anxious moms want to give birth on 11/11/11, and many are clamoring for their doctors to perform C-sections on them this Friday in order for their newborn to hold claim to a date that rolls around once every 100 years. Many moms-to-be like the idea of being in control of when their child will enter the world. Hence, the increasing number of C-sections performed in the United … Continue reading →

Do All of Your Children’s Names Begin With the Same Letter?

The Duggar family didn’t start the same first letter name trend, but they’ve certainly perfected it like no other. For the past two decades, Michelle and Jim-Bob Duggar have paid homage to the 10th letter of the alphabet by giving each of their 18 children names that begin with J. There’s Joshua, John-David, Jana, Jill, Jessa, Jinger, Joseph, Josiah, Joy-Anna, Jeremiah, Jedidiah, Jason, James, Justin, Jackson, Johannah, Jennifer and 8-month-old Jordyn-Grace. Kind of puts the Carter, Cole and Cailin combo to shame. It’s not unusual for parents with more than one child to have their kids share the first letter … Continue reading →