The new Bubzilla Baby Sling comes to twins-store

We are so pleased to be one of the first to offer the brand new Bubzilla Baby Sling, so much to say about this - not sure where to start, but have a look at the twins-store for more info.

The new Bubzilla Baby Sling is made from 100% soft cottondrill to guarantee quality and durability, giving you 'hands free' convenience without ever compromising the safety or comfort of your baby. Wearing your baby will reduce crying, wind and colic as it increases cardiac output and gentle assisits in toning baby's muscles, which in turn increases circulation and promotes better respiratory function and digestion.

rgu - Mum of triplets struggles through to graduate

Iboro Edem (29), who has successfully completed her course despite giving birth to triplets only four months ago, will graduate at 2.30pm on Thursday 4 December with an MSc in International Marketing from the Robert Gordon University

Iboro, from Akwa Ibom State in Nigeria, originally studied Communication Arts and worked as a Client Service Executive at LTC-JWT Advertising until 2005 when she joined Virgin Nigeria Airways as a Marketing Coordinator, responsible for branding and marketing communication. Iboro said, "I wanted to add more value to my CV and pursue new challenging responsibilities in multinational companies, so enrolled for the Masters at the Robert Gordon University."

Iboro and her husband Emmanuel Jude had to put all their savings towards her studies. Indeed, they were both accepted to study in the UK, but because they did not have enough finances to study simultaneously, he had to defer his offer while he continued to work in Nigeria to support her.

Five months before Iboro began the course in September last year, she sadly suffered a miscarriage when she was 20 weeks pregnant. She continues, "It was a very traumatic period for us." However, after one of her husband’s visits to her in November 2007, Iboro found out she was pregnant again.

Early in her pregnancy she went for a scan and discovered she was expecting triplets. She continues, "It was really shocking because there is no history of multiple births in either of our families. However, we accepted it as God's blessing for our previous loss."

Iboro continues, "It was not easy attending classes and carrying so much weight around. Sitting up to study and doing my coursework was very uncomfortable. I could not put in as much effort as I would have liked to and had to seek assistance from friends and lecturers to help with such things as borrowing heavy books from the library. I had to deal with fatigue, swollen feet, and pelvic pain from the weight. It was a relief after the second semester since I did not have to go out every day to attend lectures and could work on my dissertation from home."

At 34 weeks Iboro had to be admitted to hospital for close monitoring in case she went into early labour, with the target date for an elective c-section at 36 weeks so that the babies would be able to survive without neonatal care. At 35 weeks and six days, on 24 July, Iboro gave birth to three healthy baby boys Nathaniel, Johnathan and Ethan.

Iboro's mum came over to Aberdeen to help with the babies and stayed so that Iboro could complete her dissertation. She continues, "Being a go-getter, I just had to keep going with my dissertation even though I knew I was straining my health and was not giving the babies all the attention they required. I had the option of deferring but I chose to continue and, barely a month after giving birth, I returned to complete my studies. Even though the babies would be more settled when they are a few months older, my mum would not be here to help out and that would mean incurring expenses on child care.

"There were days when I barely wrote a sentence because I was shuttling from one baby to the other; however I made sure that I worked every other day. Most times, while my mum held two babies, I held one with one arm while typing my dissertation with the other!

"I was given an extension for my dissertation submission and was determined to meet this deadline. The babies needed to feed every three hours and just when we managed to feed the last one, we realised it was almost time for the next feed. So, I had to eat, scribble some words, and prepare to feed them again. I hardly ever had three hours straight sleep at night, and of course there was hardly any sleep during the day.

Regardless of how hectic it's been, studying here has been really worthwhile. Meeting people from different parts of the world and learning more about their cultures has been quite an experience. I thank my friends and lecturers, who were very helpful and supportive, without whom things would have been almost impossible. I thank God, my darling husband, our triplets, my family and in-laws for their love and support."

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Twin Faith still very ill in hospital

A BABY girl remained seriously ill in hospital last night after her conjoined twin died following emergency surgery to separate them.

Hope Williams died on Tuesday night after “one of the most complex and challenging operations” ever faced by medical staff at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, in London. Surgeons have given her sister Faith a 50-50 chance of survival, and she is still in a stable condition in intensive care.

A Great Ormond Street spokeswoman said: “Faith Williams is a very sick little girl. Great Ormond Street Hospital is doing everything it can for her.”

The twins were joined from the breastbone to the top of the navel and had a shared liver but separate hearts.

The girls’ mother, 18-year-old Laura Williams, from Shrewsbury, Shropshire, is Britain’s youngest mother to give birth to conjoined twins. The twins’ father, Aled, hails from Anglesey.

Medical staff warned Mrs Williams and her 28-year-old husband that their babies might not survive after a 12-week scan revealed the problem but they refused to consider a termination.

inthenews - Caesarean birth 'increases asthma risk'

Children born by caesarean section are more prone to asthma than those delivered naturally, research claims.

A report published in the journal Thorax today found that by the time children were eight years old those who had been born by caesarean section were 80 per cent more likely to be diagnosed with the respiratory condition.

In a survey of almost 3,000 children, the connection between caesareans and asthma was even stronger for the nine per cent of children with two allergic parents.

They were almost three times more likely to be asthmatic by the time they were eight, compared with children whose parents were not allergic, who were around 36 per cent more likely to have this diagnosis.

The authors of today's report claim that the link between caesarean sections and an increase of asthma may lie in the timing of the priming of the immune system, as caesarean delivery delays exposure to microbes.

"The increased rate of caesarean section is partly due to maternal demand without medical reason," they claim.

"In this situation the mother should be informed of the risk of asthma for her child, especially when the parents have a history of allergy or asthma."