Say Cheese!

We love Shutterfly. The good peeps there contacted me back in June when they read some blog about something I wrote about bribing your babies for babytalk (we love babytalk, too). Anyway, they saw that I was a mom of twins and co-author of Twin Set, a revolutionary parenting book to help moms and dads of multiples survive and thrive the first five years. Shutterfly was excited to tell me about how they've been reaching out to moms of twins and working with the National Organization of Mothers of Twins Clubs (NOMOTC) to pinpoint the challenges associated with chronicling memories and telling the story of raising multiples. They did an online survey (since we did a national survey of moms of multiples for our book, we were really psyched about this part) which revealed: Moms of twins rank photographing multiples as more difficult than other tasks including feeding the babies, naming the babies, decorating the nursery and dressing the babies. To help photograph the babies, a whopping 88% said they have had professionals take pictures instead. To motivate moms of twins to get snapping, Shutterfly has introduced a new line of Twin Themed baby stationery. Go to http://shutterfly.com/ssc/viewStyle.sfly?

Other Shutterfly survey highlights include: Nearly 2/3 of moms of twins surveyed said Julia Roberts was the celeb mom of twins they most admire. 35% said that if given a day off, the famous nanny they'd want to watch the kids is Jo Frost of Supernanny fame. 

To check out a fun way to capture your twin's milestones go to http://www.shutterfly.com/inspire/photobooks/abcs.jsp

Happy photosnapping! More on the upcoming Twin Conference in Boston next time...