This book, written by a pair of Australian-based moms of twins is well-researched and informative and presented in a clear and easy-to-read fashion. It blends humor, stories, and facts with valuable advice from doctors and other parents in a chronological format that takes parents from pregnancy through birth through the early years.

In fact, if you're one of the 4500-plus families who will have twins in either Australia or New Zealand in a typical year (a number we learned when reading this book), we wholeheartedly recommend this as a "must-read". It's also a good reference source for those parents who may be based elsewhere in the world such as North America, Europe or Asia. However, we do want to warn you that a lot of the book does focus on Australian resources and uses references that the rest of the world may not understand. One chapter is entitled 'Bert Newton is My New Best Friend: Motherhood', a reference to an extremely popular Australian television show host whose fame hasn't quite spread to the United States as of this writing.

The authors have done an excellent job in researching latest trends and developments in multiple pregnancies and the book is chock full of interesting details (again that concentrate more on births in Australia). Did you know that 20% of all multiple births in Australia these days are the result of fertility programs? Or that the Australia National Infertility Network reports that 53% of those fertility-treatment twin pregnancies result in c-sections? Or that the overall rate in twin births in Australia has fallen from one in every 100 births in 1980 to one in every 84 births in 1990 to one in every 65 births in 2000.

With entire chapters devoted to relationships, sleep and dealing with motherhood issues such as post-partem depression, the book also provides suggestions to help parents after their twins are born.

If you're an Australian or New Zealand-based mom-to-be, we recommend making this your primary reference guide on your pregnancy book shelf. If you're based elsewhere in the world, we'd probably recommend checking out 'When You're Expecting Twins, Triplets or Quads' or 'How to Have a Healthy Twin Pregnancy' and supplementing either of those two excellent guides with this excellent book.