Twiniversity Podcast with Natalie Diaz

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What's Twiniversity Podcast with Natalie Diaz about?

Got Twins? Us too! This show is created by parents of twins FOR parents of twins from expecting times through the teenage years and everything in between. Just know that we are laughing WITH you every step of the way.

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Twiniversity Podcast with Natalie Diaz episodes:

04.17.2024
"I'm a neurodiverse mom of twins" with Megan Griffith
Join us as we sit down with Meghan, a twin mom who shares her story of living with ADHD and being on the Autism spectrum. From her journey to diagnosis to the joys and challenges of motherhood, Meghan offers a...
04.03.2024
Staying on the Same Team as your Spouse with Monique Goff
For today’s episode we delve into the dynamic world of parenting through the lens of twin mom Monique Goff who shares her insights on the importance of staying on the same team with your spouse. Join us as we...
03.20.2024
Sh*&ting On Singleton Families with Julia Raufman
Join us for an unfiltered conversation with twin mom Julia Raufman as we lay bare the unique challenges of raising multiples. From the get-go, we pull no punches, shedding light on the frustrations and misconceptions faced by parents of multiples,...
03.13.2024
"I Had A Birth Doula During My Twin Delivery" with Larissa Lien
On today’s episode we are chatting with Larissa Lien who shares her remarkable journey as a young mother of twin boys, guided by the unwavering support of her birth doula. At 23, Larissa embarked on the exciting yet daunting path...
03.06.2024
Why Is No One Talking About Prenatal Nutrition? with Kristin Brown
Join us in this enlightening episode as we sit down with Kristin Brown, a remarkable twin mom and the go-to expert in prenatal and perinatal nutrition. Kristin shares her unique journey through pregnancy, shedding light on the often-overlooked aspect of...
02.28.2024
The Harsh Reality of Living with an Eating Disorder and Having Twins with Alex Punton
In this episode, we meet Alex, a twin mom courageously navigating the challenges of motherhood while battling an eating disorder that began at age 16. Alex's story delves into the intricate layers of her journey, highlighting the added pressure of...
02.21.2024
TAPS (Twin Anemia Polycythemia Sequence). What is it and why it really matters when pregnant with twins with Stephanie Ernst
In this episode, we unravel the mysteries surrounding Twin Anemia Polycythemia Sequence (TAPS) alongside Stephanie Ernst, a dedicated twin mom whose journey propelled her to advocate for awareness and support for families affected by this rare condition. Stephanie's personal narrative, fueled...
02.14.2024
A Twin Mom and Her Gestational Carrier Pt.2 with Jen and Triest
In this part two episode, we continue into the extraordinary journey of Jen, a twin mom, and Triest, her gestational carrier. Together, we unravel the intricacies of surrogacy and gestational carriership, shedding light on the nuances that distinguish the two....
02.07.2024
A Twin Mom and Her Gestational Carrier Pt.1 with Jen and Triest
In this compelling episode, we delve into the extraordinary journey of Jen, a twin mom, and Triest, her gestational carrier. Together, we unravel the intricacies of surrogacy and gestational carriership, shedding light on the nuances that distinguish the two. Our...
10.04.2023
A Personal Reflection on Delivery Day with Nat and her OB Dr. Anna Barbieri
We are taking a trip back in time and chatting with OB Dr.Anna Barbieri who is actually Natalie’s personal Obstetrician! Today we discuss Natalie’s difficult delivery day story, post-partum healing, empowered decision-making, and the importance of building a human connection...
09.27.2023
26 weekers and dealing with NEC Our Story of Hope with Judy Jarka
Judy Jarka is a first-time momma of twin girls who arrived early at 26 weeks weighing less than two pounds each. Today we’ll be discussing her pregnancy journey up until that point, the experience of early delivery with twins, and...
09.20.2023
Why I Changed My OB at 37w4d With My Twins with Emily Lewellen
Emily Lewellen is a twin momma and Ultra Sound Technician who decided to roll the dice and switch her Obstetrician at 37 weeks and 4 days. Emily struggled with feeling ignored and frustrated by the lack of cooperation and consideration...
07.26.2023
Everything Has A Phase When Raising Twins with Jaymisha Rajpar
Jaymisha Rajpara is a momma of twinnies, an Educator, and the Author of the children’s book “Different Twins It's Perfectly Ok.” Today we are discussing Jaymisha’s book about the uniqueness of each child even as twins and how important it...
07.19.2023
"A Wish For Twins" with Author Dorothia Rohner
Dorothia Rohner is a grandmama of twins and the author of the children’s book “A Wish for Twins: The Tale of Our Two Miracles, " a picture book about the origin of twins. Dorothia found inspiration while sketching bedside to...
07.12.2023
Twin Home Birth? Yes, It Can Happen with Twin Mom Alexandra Garcia Lopez
Alexandra Garcia Lopez is a fierce momma of twinnies who made her goal of an at-home birth a reality. Today we discuss the social stigma against home births with twins, Alex’s delivery story, tips to make your birth plan happen,...
07.05.2023
Can Baby Helmets Be Avoided With Twins? with Jennifer Barnard
Jennifer Barnard is a Pediatric Occupational Therapist and the founder of Baby Begin, a company focused on simplifying the treatment for plagiocephaly and torticollis by providing helmet alternatives. Jennifer is passionate about educating parents to explore preventative treatment options for...
06.28.2023
My 23w5d Delivery With Twins with Hannah Baldwin
Hannah Baldwin shares her experience giving birth to her twins early at 23 weeks and 5 days. After giving birth early to her twins, Hannah was told there was a low chance of survival for her babies in the NICU....
06.21.2023
My Mo/Mo Twin Pregnancy with Lacie Mersman
Lacie Mersman is a mom of identical twins who shares her experience through a high-risk pregnancy with Mo/Mo twins. Having gone through two normal pregnancies before, Lacie went into her 7-week ultrasound not expecting to find out about her twinies...
06.14.2023
A Triplet's Perspective on Life with Paige Hullett
Paige Hullett is an actress, writer, director, and triplet sister! Today we discuss what life was like growing up in a family of multiples and being one of three triplet girls. Her experiences growing up as a triplet have led...
06.07.2023
It's OK to Say "This Stinks" - Keeping it Real with Jen Genel
Jen Genel is a Therapist mom of boy/girl twins who went into her journey of twin parenting with hopeful expectations, only to have the realization of the tough reality of being a parent of multiples. After noticing how it was...
05.31.2023
Social Media is Like Having a Million Mother's In Law with Katie Hillier
Katie Hillier is a mom of boy twinnies who shares her journey online as a twin parent on TikTok (@whenkatiemetharry). Katie shares a raw and honest version online of her life, balancing parenting her two boys and making time to...
04.05.2023
Twin Dad Truth Time with David Swickline
David Swickline is a School Psychologist and a happily involved father of Twins. Today we dive into some twin dad and husband truths David has learned throughout his life and his parenting journey. His motto is to approach things as...
03.29.2023
What You Need To Know About Baby Led Weaning with Christiana Scott
Christiana Scott is a nutritional therapist and personal chef mom of twin boys and founder of Real Food Littles. Christiana dives into how few resources there are for how to introduce solids to babies and how this lack of information...
03.23.2023
The Joys Of Raising Differently Abled Kids with Odette Claridge
Odette Claridge is a mom of four, whose firstborn has special needs and after having a second singleton, rolled the dice and ended up getting pregnant with twins. Today we discuss how it’s been for her to raise differently-abled kids...
03.15.2023
The Worst Journey to The Best Outcome: A TTTS Story with Amy Jones
Amy Jones is a mom of a singleton and twinies and today she shares her experience with twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome and her complicated delivery day story. She has been through such a difficult journey which led to the best outcome,...
03.08.2023
How to Ted Lasso the Sh*t Out of Your Medical Team with Tamara Sam
Tamara Sam is a mom of twinies and a singleton who has cracked the code on how to have a better experience with your medical team from pregnancy through birth and beyond. Today we discuss Tamara’s game-changing tips on how...
03.01.2023
How TikTok Saved My Twins with Erica Gutierrez
Erica Gutierrez is a mom of five girls, a singleton, and two sets of twins! We discuss the differences between her two twin pregnancies, how she and her husband really felt about having another set of twins, and how they...
02.22.2023
An Unexpected At-Home Delivery at 25 Weeks with Dana Rogney
After struggling with fertility for years, Dana Rogney shares her story of an unconventional and unexpected delivery day which resulted in giving birth to her twinies early at 25 weeks. Through this experience, she also expresses how her babies survived...
02.15.2023
What Do I Do with All Of This Breastmilk? Donate It Of Course! with Brittany Forsyth
Brittany Forsyth is a Canadian momma of a singleton and twinies who shares her journey with breastfeeding and what it is like having a generous supply of breast milk. Through her experience, she has helped many families in need by...
02.08.2023
How a Dad Raises His Boy/Girl Twins and Deals with Postpartum Preeclampsia with Curtis Burke
Curtis Burke is a West Coast Dad of Boy/Girl Twins and host of the Uncovered Legacy podcast. He shares his experience as a Twin Dad, the main differences he finds between raising his boy and girl, and how he and...
02.01.2023
Stop Calling Them "The Twins." Nurturing Your Duo as Separate People with Wafeeqa Wahid
Today Nat chats with Wafeeqa Wahid, a globetrotting twin mom to 4-year old boys. She shares her philosophy on the importance of treating each of her boys as his own person to nurtures their differences. She also covers how she...
09.28.2022
Postpartum PTSD with Kim Friedberg
Today's topic is traumatic birth and postpartum PTSD. Our guest Kim is here to discuss her journey with miscarriage, IVF, a long hospital stay, NICU time and how she discovered her own PTSD early and got help.
09.21.2022
Hospital Bedrest and an Unexpected Flight with Alysa Peterson
Alysa joins us to talk about preeclampsia during her twin pregnancy that landed her on hospital bedrest. After a week, she was airlifted to a larger hospital. Today we're talking about birth trauma, preeclampsia, and having twins in the NICU.
09.14.2022
This Mom Found Her Own TTTS with Emily and Dom
Emily is a twin mom and an ultrasound technician. She and her husband join us today to talk about their experience with Twin-Twin Transfusion Syndrome, the surgery to correct it, their healthy delivery at 35 weeks and their oldest singleton...
09.07.2022
Being a Widowed Twin Mom with Janelle Fragale
Janelle’s twins were only a few months old when her husband Keith was diagnosed with Lymphoma. In 2020, Keith passed away from the disease. Today we're talking grief, parenting alone, therapy, and keeping her husband's memory alive.
08.31.2022
How Graham's Foundation Helps Premature Babies with Nicole Doyle
Nicole Doyle started her twin mom journey delivering at 24 weeks. Her micro preemies spent 5 months in the NICU and are now thriving 10 year olds! As a result of her experience, she now works for Graham’s Foundation, a...
08.24.2022
Raising Children in an Inter-Faith Family with Rebecca Trott
Rebecca Trott is here to talk about her Jewish-Christian interfaith marriage and raising her preschool twins. She also covers Hebrew school versus Sunday school, why she chose not to do a Bris, Hanukkah, Christmas, Santa and family prayer time.
08.17.2022
Single, Homeless, and Expecting Twins with Kortnie Sands
When Kortnie found out she was pregnant with twins, she knew two things: she wanted to be a mom and she had to leave her babies’ father. With nowhere to live, Kortnie moved into Visitation House, a communal home for...
08.10.2022
Extended Breastfeeding with Nora Ivezaj
Nora is a twin mom who has been breastfeeding for 17 months! Today we're talking twin pregnancy, preeclampsia, mom guilt, common breastfeeding problems and Mom intuition.
08.03.2022
Balancing Marriage and Parenting with Elicia Stalker
Elicia is a mom of three boys under 3: one singleton and twin boys. She and Nat are talking about marriage today along with facing infertility as a couple, IVF, Long-distance marriage, communication and finding time for intimacy.
07.27.2022
Twins Delivered at 24 Weeks with Marissa Fluture
Marissa delivered twins at 24 weeks! Today we're talking about micro-preemies, long NICU stays, Primary care nurses, traumatic birth and early intervention services.
07.20.2022
Becoming a Twin Mom Through Surrogacy
Erika and her husband Dave had a long, bumpy road to twin parenthood. Erika experienced uterine fibroids, endometriosis, pregnancy loss, and many failed fertility treatments before her doctor suggested that surrogacy may be her best option.
07.13.2022
Speech Development For Your Twins with Leanne Swickline
Leanne is a speech pathologist and a twin mom. Today she's helping us unravel the topics of breastfeeding twins, lip and tongue tie, baby led weaning, and speech development milestones to watch for.
07.06.2022
Surprise! It's Twins...Again! With Jillian Kalyan
Jillian was expecting her second set of twins when a scan revealed one twin would be born with a rare birth defect called Bladder Exstrophy. Today, she and Nat discuss getting specialized care at CHOP, life in the NICU, recovering...
06.29.2022
Your Delivery Questions Answered with Christie Herring
We’re bringing you the inside scoop on labor and delivery! Our guest Christie Herring is a twin mom and a labor and delivery nurse from Texas. We're covering it all today! Epidurals, C-sections, Braxton Hicks, realistic birth plans and warning...
06.22.2022
Six Types of Rest with Twin Mom Dr. Daryl Appleton
Do you need a break? Dr. Daryl Appleton says YES! Wellness expert and twin Mom Dr. Appleton talks about the six types of rest we need in order to be good spouses, parents, employees and humans. She also talks about...
06.15.2022
Stay-at-Home Sanity with Melissa Wolf
It’s the great parenting dilemma: stay at home or return to work? Twin mom Melissa Wolf talks about her experience as a stay-at-home mom raising twins and a singleton. Infertility, mom guilt, bedtime routines, morning schedules, we cover it...
05.04.2022
From "Why Me?" to "Lucky Me!" with Meredith Dickinson
Meredith Dickinson found out at 20 weeks she was pregnant with identical twin girls. At 28 weeks, doctors discovered that one baby had Duodenal Atresia and would need surgery right after being born. Meredith shares with us about why google...
04.27.2022
Twins After Infertility with Miracle Semein
Miracle Semein was diagnosed with Primary Ovarian Insufficiency at age 34. Then, she got pregnant with twins! She joined us at week 35 of her pregnancy to discuss the highs and lows of infertility, pregnancy, getting COVID in her 3rd...
04.20.2022
Fitness During and After Pregnancy with Katherine West Dargon
Katherine West Dargon is a twin herself and she’s ALSO 36 weeks pregnant with identical twins! She joins us to talk about fitness during and after pregnancy, learning to relax with breathing exercises, twins after a singleton, and exercise for...

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Twiniversity Podcast with Natalie Diaz episodes:

"I'm a neurodiverse mom of twins" with Megan Griffith

Staying on the Same Team as your Spouse with Monique Goff

Sh*&ting On Singleton Families with Julia Raufman

"I Had A Birth Doula During My Twin Delivery" with Larissa Lien

Why Is No One Talking About Prenatal Nutrition? with Kristin Brown

The Harsh Reality of Living with an Eating Disorder and Having Twins with Alex Punton

TAPS (Twin Anemia Polycythemia Sequence). What is it and why it really matters when pregnant with twins with Stephanie Ernst

A Twin Mom and Her Gestational Carrier Pt.2 with Jen and Triest

A Twin Mom and Her Gestational Carrier Pt.1 with Jen and Triest

A Personal Reflection on Delivery Day with Nat and her OB Dr. Anna Barbieri

26 weekers and dealing with NEC Our Story of Hope with Judy Jarka

Why I Changed My OB at 37w4d With My Twins with Emily Lewellen

Everything Has A Phase When Raising Twins with Jaymisha Rajpar

"A Wish For Twins" with Author Dorothia Rohner

Twin Home Birth? Yes, It Can Happen with Twin Mom Alexandra Garcia Lopez

Can Baby Helmets Be Avoided With Twins? with Jennifer Barnard

My 23w5d Delivery With Twins with Hannah Baldwin

My Mo/Mo Twin Pregnancy with Lacie Mersman

A Triplet's Perspective on Life with Paige Hullett

It's OK to Say "This Stinks" - Keeping it Real with Jen Genel

Social Media is Like Having a Million Mother's In Law with Katie Hillier

Twin Dad Truth Time with David Swickline

What You Need To Know About Baby Led Weaning with Christiana Scott

The Joys Of Raising Differently Abled Kids with Odette Claridge

The Worst Journey to The Best Outcome: A TTTS Story with Amy Jones

How to Ted Lasso the Sh*t Out of Your Medical Team with Tamara Sam

How TikTok Saved My Twins with Erica Gutierrez

An Unexpected At-Home Delivery at 25 Weeks with Dana Rogney

What Do I Do with All Of This Breastmilk? Donate It Of Course! with Brittany Forsyth

How a Dad Raises His Boy/Girl Twins and Deals with Postpartum Preeclampsia with Curtis Burke

Stop Calling Them "The Twins." Nurturing Your Duo as Separate People with Wafeeqa Wahid

Postpartum PTSD with Kim Friedberg

Hospital Bedrest and an Unexpected Flight with Alysa Peterson

This Mom Found Her Own TTTS with Emily and Dom

Being a Widowed Twin Mom with Janelle Fragale

How Graham's Foundation Helps Premature Babies with Nicole Doyle

Raising Children in an Inter-Faith Family with Rebecca Trott

Single, Homeless, and Expecting Twins with Kortnie Sands

Extended Breastfeeding with Nora Ivezaj

Balancing Marriage and Parenting with Elicia Stalker

Twins Delivered at 24 Weeks with Marissa Fluture

Becoming a Twin Mom Through Surrogacy

Speech Development For Your Twins with Leanne Swickline

Surprise! It's Twins...Again! With Jillian Kalyan

Your Delivery Questions Answered with Christie Herring

Six Types of Rest with Twin Mom Dr. Daryl Appleton

Stay-at-Home Sanity with Melissa Wolf

From "Why Me?" to "Lucky Me!" with Meredith Dickinson

Twins After Infertility with Miracle Semein

Fitness During and After Pregnancy with Katherine West Dargon