Multiplicity:  The Special Challenges of Parenting Twins & More - Loss, Prematurity and Special Needs. Lists organizations, print & website resources that may be helpful for parents facing the challenges of raising multiples, working through loss of one or more multiples, or raising one or more premature or special needs child(ren).  

Twins Days in Twinsburg, Ohio:  Each year during the first full weekend in August, a festival is held in Twinsburg, Ohio (about 30 miles south of Cleveland). It's reported to be the largest annual gathering of twins in the world.

Raising Twins- Advice, support, help and information for parents who are expecting twins, or who already have them and love them.

TwInsight.com This site helps individuals and families become aware of the specific issues regarding multiples and to experience the joys and confront the challenges of multiple births.

Mother of Twins A site dedicated to parents of twins from conception to beyond.

Home School for Families of Twins:  Resources for home schooling twins.

Twin Pregnancy and Beyond: Your one-stop resource through all stages of pregnancy, birth, parenting and everything TWIN-between.

Twin Stuff:  TwinStuff.com is a site created for twins by twins. There are twin games, twin links, twin events, a lot of "twinformation," and much more.

Twins pregnancy calendar Check out our twins pregnancy week by week calendar as well as our twin pregnancy journal to keep track of your babies' progress

Twinsights.com Helpful tips, humor, support, and advice for new and expecting twin parents.  Updated weekly, Twinsights includes Q&A opportunities, highlighted HomePage twins, a featured Twindividual, TwinTales, and a Double Baby Book Club. 

Sidelines National Support Network:  Sidelines is a non-profit organization providing international support for women and their families experiencing complicated pregnancies and premature births.

Twin-to-Twin Transfusion Syndrome Foundation, Inc.:  Founded in 1992, The TTTS Foundation is an international  nonprofit organization dedicated to providing educational, and emotional support to families, medical professionals, parents of multiples clubs, and other caregivers before, during or after a diagnosis of TTTS.

Twins Foundation:  Nonprofit membership, research information center, and twin registry

Center for Loss in Multiple Birth (CLIMB, Inc.):  Founded in 1987, CLIMB, Inc. deals with parents who have experienced the death of a multiple or multiples during pregnancy, birth, infancy or childhood. It publishes the quarterly "Our Newsletter" and has an active parent contact network.

Twinless Twins Support Group, International (US):  TTSGI is an organization comprised of nearly 1300 twinless twins. They gather annually for a conference where they share with and encourage each other. Between conferences they telephone, write, and email each other. If you're not a twin, but you are the parent, sibling, or spouse of a twinless twin who in turn struggles with how to support the surviving twin in your family, they are here for you, too.

COMBO:  Council of Multiple Birth Organizations, a working group of the International Society for Twin Studies. Promotes sharing of ideas and resources among multiple birth organizations throughout the world.

International Society for Twin Studies:  ISTS is an international, nonpolitical, nonprofit, multidisciplinary scientific organization. Its purpose is to further research and public education in all fields related to twins and twin studies, for the mutual benefit of twins and their families and of scientific research in general.

International Twins Association, Inc.:  ITA is a nonprofit organization promoting the spiritual, intellectual and social welfare of twins throughout the world. ITA has been meeting every Labor Day weekend since 1934.

Multiple Births Canada/Naissances Multiples Canada (MBC):  Multiple Births Canada (MBC) is a national non-profit organization serving the needs of multiple birth families. MBC's mission is to improve the quality of life for multiple birth individuals and their families across Canada. MBC provides support, education, research, and advocacy to individuals, families, and organizations with a personal or professional interest in multiple birth issues.

TAMBA (Twins and Multiples Births Association) (England):  TAMBA is a registered charity for all parents with twins, triplets, quads, quints, sextuplets or more! It supports families with twins or more, individually, through local twins clubs, and specialist support groups, and promotes public and professional awareness of their needs

Australian Multiple Birth Association (AMBA):  AMBA is a nonprofit organization whose goals are to increase awareness of the special needs of multiple birth families, and to improve the resources available to them.

TwinsandMultiples.org This site covers twins and higher multiples in pre-school, the school years, special needs, secondary education and beyond. Based on extensive research, the site is designed for parents and professionals, providing many practical resources including a starting school questionnaire, zygosity determination questionnaire and forums for parents, professionals and adolescent multiples.

Twins Talk -is brought to you by Susan Heim, author of It's Twins! Parent-to-Parent Advice from Infancy through Adolescence.