Twiniversity Podcast with Natalie Diaz

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1. How to Share Parenting Responsibilities Without Resentment

   21 oktober 2026 · 50 min

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   In this episode of the Twiniversity Podcast, Nat talks with Nicole Whitaker – a coach for career moms and a twin mom of girls, plus an older child – about one of the spiciest topics in any twin home: who does what. Nicole shares why the first step is an honest check-in with yourself, how a “soft startup” and clear non-negotiables keep hard talks from turning into fights, and why your partner should own whole tasks instead of just “helping.” Nat adds hard-won wisdom from 21 years of twin parenting, including the cereal-on-the-floor story that changed how she thinks about control, and a reminder that it’s only too late if you don’t start now. Lees meer

   A QUICK SHOUTOUT 📣

   This series is brought to you by CordBlood.com. Your babies’ umbilical cord blood is a one-time source of precious newborn stem cells, and once the cord is cut, it’s usually thrown away. Banking it lets you collect and preserve those cells right at birth — and with twins, that’s two once-in-a-lifetime chances you only get on delivery day. 👉 https://cordblood.com Use code DUO2 for special twin-family pricing. 💙

   This episode’s break is brought to you by the Twiniversity Virtual Twins Meeting – a monthly live call where you can bring Nat and Lauren your biggest twin-life challenges, from sharing the load at home to getting a little time back for yourself. You don’t have to figure it out alone. 👇

   https://twiniversity.mykajabi.com/offers/MKse3EVR/checkout

   EPISODE THEMES 📝

   ⦿ Why sharing the load is a struggle for almost every family – and why that’s normal

   ⦿ The first conversation is with yourself: what do you really need and want?

   ⦿ New babies are like a work reorg – the old system has to change

   ⦿ Deal breakers: naming the bare minimum each of you needs

   ⦿ Starting your own family as a chance for a redo or a do-over

   ⦿ The soft startup – “Is now a good time?”

   ⦿ Three ground rules: stay calm, seek to understand, aim to reconcile

   ⦿ Non-negotiables inside the circle, flexible areas outside it

   ⦿ How resentm…

2. Boy Meets Girl, 100 Days Later… Expecting Twins with Twin Mom Sayra Yepez

   7 oktober 2026 · 58 min

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   In this episode of the Twiniversity Podcast, Nat talks with Sayra Yepez – an architect who moved from New York to California to start over, met her partner in August, and was pregnant by December with di/di twin girls. Lees meer

   Sayra walks through the appointment where a joke about twins turned real, the conversations that followed with her roommate and her family, and how a relationship that was three months old had to evolve ten years in a week. She is also honest about what came next: a severe postpartum depression she is still working her way out of two and a half years later.

   It is a story about trust, about how fast a family can build itself, and about why the village – whether you were handed one or had to assemble it – is the whole thing.

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   A QUICK SHOUTOUT 📣

   This series is brought to you by CordBlood.com. Your babies’ umbilical cord blood is a one-time source of precious newborn stem cells, and once the cord is cut, it’s usually thrown away. Banking it lets you collect and preserve those cells right at birth — and with twins, that’s two once-in-a-lifetime chances you only get on delivery day. 👉 https://cordblood.com Use code DUO2 for special twin-family pricing. 💙

   This episode’s break is brought to you by Twiniversity’s online Breastfeeding Twins class – for the pumping-feeding-formula-repeat stretch Sayra describes, taught by twin parents for twin parents, so you go in with a plan instead of a guess. 👇

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   EPISODE THEMES 📝

   ⦿ Meeting in August, pregnant by December – and cracking up at the universe

   ⦿ Read the fine print: birth control is not 100%, and the 2% can come as a set

   ⦿ The burrito run, the joke about twins, and the nurse who said “…

3. Why Don't We Get an Owner's Manual for Twins? with Twin Mom Brittani Thorne

   23 september 2026 · 1 uur 3 min

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   In this episode of the Twiniversity Podcast, Nat talks with Brittani Thorne – a kidney transplant nurse, a twin herself, married to a twin, and now a mom of twins – about the question her day job made impossible to ignore: why do transplant patients get months of education to care for one precious gift, while new parents get a two-minute phone call and “feed them every two to three hours”? Lees meer

   Brittani walks through her road to twins after losing her first baby at 21 weeks and having 15 fibroids removed, the NICU stay that taught her (and both sets of grandparents) how to actually care for two newborns, and the support system – parents at her door at 6:30 every morning – that meant she never felt sleep-deprived.

   It’s an honest look at the education hospitals quietly stopped offering after COVID, why “we’re all just winging it” might be the most freeing thing you hear all week, and how to build the accessory humans who make up for the manual nobody handed you.

   A QUICK SHOUTOUT 📣

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   This episode’s break is brought to you by Twiniversity’s online Baby Safety class – CPR, first aid, car seat safety, and childproofing, taught for twin families. If this whole episode is about the manual nobody hands you, this is the chapter you really don’t want to skip. 👇

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   EPISODE THEMES 📝

   ⦿ Hairdressers need licensing hours – parents get handed a human being with no education at all

   ⦿ Two twins raising twins: when “…

4. A True Look Back at Raising Twins for Two Decades with Amanda Johnson

   9 september 2026 · 46 min

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   In this episode of the Twiniversity Podcast, Nat talks with Amanda – mom of fraternal twin boys who are now grown men, one of whom is autistic – about what twin parenting looks like from the far side of it. Amanda found out at 23, in college and on birth control, that the two heartbeats on the ultrasound meant twins, and she raised them with almost no internet, no twin-mom circle, and no mother of her own to call. Lees meer

   She and Nat go straight at the things twin parents rarely say out loud: the colicky 3 a.m. thought that she could not do this, the fear of being judged in the Target parking lot, and the one decision she would make differently if she could go back.

   What is left after 24 years is not a system or a hack – it is patience, presence, and the kind of consistency that still has her son heading to bed at 9:00 on New Year’s Eve.

   A QUICK SHOUTOUT 📣

   This series is brought to you by CordBlood.com — and since July is Cord Blood Awareness Month, there's no better time to talk about it. Your babies' umbilical cord blood is a one-time source of precious newborn stem cells, and once the cord is cut, it's usually thrown away. Banking it lets you collect and preserve those cells right at birth — and with twins, that's two once-in-a-lifetime chances you only get on delivery day. 👉 https://cordblood.com Use code DUO2 for special twin-family pricing. 💙

   This episode’s break is brought to you by the Twiniversity Virtual Twins Meeting – because the one thing Amanda never had was a room full of other twin parents. Meet Nat and Lauren each month and bring them your biggest twin life challenges, whether your twins are two weeks old or twenty-two. 👇

   https://twiniversity.mykajabi.com/offers/MKse3EVR/checkout

   EPISODE THEMES 📝

   ⦿ Finding out at 23, in college and on birth control, that there were two heartbeats

   ⦿ “I have a baby with two hearts?” – the first reaction so many twin parents have

   ⦿ Dropping out of school, getting married, and rebuilding the whole plan around two bab…

5. Which Sperm Should I Pick? with Solo Mom Connie Rutherford

   26 augustus 2026 · 1 uur 8 min

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   In this episode of the Twiniversity Podcast, Nat talks with Connie Rutherford — a Wall Street–turned–tech mom, author of Searching for Tadpoles, and a solo mom by choice raising twin girls she was told she had almost no odds of having. Connie walks through the whole road: freezing her eggs at 38, choosing a sperm donor in secret from her traditional family, three IUIs, a failed transfer, and a fresh cycle at 40 where she skipped genetic testing, transferred two embryos at less than 1% odds, and got both. Lees meer

   From there it is a twin pregnancy in a boiler-room career, a 17-hour flight home from Taiwan in a face mask as COVID hit, and a book written almost entirely while pregnant. It is a funny, unfiltered, deeply reassuring conversation about building the family you want without waiting for anyone else to show up.

   CONNECT WITH CONNIE 📖

   Grab her book, Searching for Tadpoles — her full solo-motherhood and fertility journey, written the way she wished someone had written it for her.

   Website: https://www.connierutherford.com/

   Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/searchingfortadpoles

   TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@searchingfortadpoles

   Email: searchingfortadpoles@gmail.com

   A QUICK SHOUTOUT 📣

   This series is brought to you by CordBlood.com — and since July is Cord Blood Awareness Month, there's no better time to talk about it. Your babies' umbilical cord blood is a one-time source of precious newborn stem cells, and once the cord is cut, it's usually thrown away. Banking it lets you collect and preserve those cells right at birth — and with twins, that's two once-in-a-lifetime chances you only get on delivery day. 👉 https://cordblood.com Use code DUO2 for special twin-family pricing. 💙

   This episode's break is brought to you by the Twiniversity Virtual Twins Meeting — the exact community Nat invites Nicole into. Meet Nat and Lauren, bring them your biggest twin-life challenge of the month (parent preference absolutely counts), and remember you are never doing this alon…

6. Why Not Me? Dealing with Twins Parent Preference with Twin Mom Nicole Kernan

   12 augustus 2026 · 1 uur 12 min

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   In this episode of the Twiniversity Podcast, Nat sits down with Nicole Kernan — mom to fraternal twin girls Ollie and Lou (two and a half) — to talk about the thing so many parents feel and rarely say out loud: parent preference. Nicole did everything as a team — exclusive pumping, a husband who took full paternity leave — and one twin still gravitated hard toward Dad, leaving her buried in guilt. Nat meets her in the eye of the storm with the reframe that changes everything: stop trying to be equal, start being fair, and shift the story from "them vs. me" to we — because a child with two parents they can fully depend on isn't a rejection, it's a gift. Lees meer

   A QUICK SHOUTOUT 📣

   This series is brought to you by CordBlood.com — and since July is Cord Blood Awareness Month, there's no better time to talk about it. Your babies' umbilical cord blood is a one-time source of precious newborn stem cells, and once the cord is cut, it's usually thrown away. Banking it lets you collect and preserve those cells right at birth — and with twins, that's two once-in-a-lifetime chances you only get on delivery day. 👉 https://cordblood.com Use code DUO2 for special twin-family pricing. 💙

   This episode's break is brought to you by the Twiniversity Virtual Twins Meeting — the exact community Nat invites Nicole into. Meet Nat and Lauren, bring them your biggest twin-life challenge of the month (parent preference absolutely counts), and remember you are never doing this alone. 👇

   Join the next Twiniversity Virtual Twins Meeting

   EPISODE THEMES 📝

   ⦿ Why "my twin prefers Dad" is far more common than you think — and often a person preference, not a snub

   ⦿ How the preferred parent can flip overnight (first Ollie, then Lou)

   ⦿ The guilt and shame nobody names — NICU guilt, pumping guilt, and "why not me?"

   ⦿ Don't force it — but don't let the preferred parent "rescue" either

   ⦿ The crib standoff, the tantrum only Dad can calm, and the story-time lap meltdown

   ⦿ Trying to be fair instead of equal…

7. How to Be a More Supportive Partner with Twin Dad Zach Achatz

   29 juli 2026 · 1 uur 5 min

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   In this episode of the Twiniversity Podcast, Nat sits down with Zach Achatz - a small-business owner, woodworker, pie maker, and dad of six-month-old boy-girl twins - for the conversation she wishes more dads would have: how partners actually show up. After navigating his wife’s PCOS and a fertility journey that ended in a very big surprise (two little black dots on the ultrasound), Zach came ready to talk through every stage of the twin journey. Lees meer

   The heart of it is advocacy - his wife fired all her providers by 36 weeks to get the vaginal twin birth she wanted, and they found their yes at U of M with baby A head down and baby B breech. From there it turns practical: dividing the labor by "who’s fastest at what," home automation, honest talk about co-sleeping and sleep deprivation, the doula who steadied their birth, and Nat’s north star for every papa bear who thinks they can jump in later - there is no jumping in later. You jump in now.

   A QUICK SHOUTOUT 📣

   This episode is brought to you by Baby Brezza - a Twiniversity top pick for about eight years running. Their Formula Advanced Pro WiFi starts a warm, perfectly mixed bottle from bed, and their all-in-one Bottle Washer Pro washes, sterilizes, and dries in 88 minutes. 👉

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   This episode’s break is brought to you by Twiniversity’s Twins Delivery Day Bootcamp - the exact advocacy and birth-plan prep Zach and his wife lived out here, taught by Nat. 👇

   https://twiniversity.mykajabi.com/DeliveryDayBootcamp

   EPISODE THEMES 📝

   ⦿ Why raising twins is a two-person sport - and why partners can’t "jump in later"

   ⦿ Firing every provider by 36 weeks to fight for the birth she wanted

   ⦿ Getting cleared for a vaginal twin birth when baby B is breech

   ⦿ Dad as the mouthpiece in the delivery room - the BRAIN approach

   ⦿ Dividing the newborn labor by "who’s fastest at what," not by gender

   ⦿ Co-sleeping honestly and safely, and modeling real partnership for your twins

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   ⦿ Want more of the dad’s side …

8. Why Don't Twin Parents Get Better Prenatal Education? | With Twin Mom Laurie Donohue

   15 juli 2026 · 47 min

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   In this episode of the Twiniversity Podcast, Natalie talks with Laurie Donohue, a twin mom of boy-girl twins, about how often standard pregnancy education leaves twin parents out. Lees meer

   When Laurie learned she was having twins, she went looking for real data and practical guidance. Instead, most pregnancy books gave twins little more than a passing mention. She eventually found a multiples-specific resource, leaned on family support, and asked her medical team detailed questions to advocate for the birth experience she wanted.

   Natalie shares how that same information gap helped inspire Twiniversity. Even professional childbirth and lactation training often treats multiples as an afterthought, leaving parents and educators without the support they need.

   The conversation also covers the fear that comes with the “high-risk” label, the challenge of finding trustworthy twin resources online, and why real support from local twin clubs and other multiples parents matters so much.

   Most importantly, this episode reminds new twin parents that they do not have to do everything perfectly. Some days, success simply means everyone is fed, safe, and making it to bedtime. You can do this.

   A QUICK SHOUTOUT 📣

   This episode is brought to you by Baby Brezza – the maker of the Formula Pro Advanced, the automatic formula dispenser that makes a warm, perfectly mixed bottle in seconds. No measuring, no scooping, no lumps – just press start and it's ready. It works with virtually all formula brands and bottle sizes, which is a real sanity-saver when you're prepping bottles for two around the clock (some parents lovingly call it the "baby Keurig"). 👉 babybrezza.com/products/formula-pro-advanced

   This episode is also brought to you by Twiniversity's FREE online Twins Delivery Day Bootcamp – the twin-specific birth prep. Nat walks you through twin birth plans, what to actually ask your medical team, and what to expect whether you deliver vaginally, by C-section, or both – so you head into deli…

9. The Breastfeeding Learning Curve for Twin Moms with Mallory

   1 juli 2026 · 51 min

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   In this episode of the Twiniversity Podcast, Nat talks with Mallory Reeves – a nurse and twin mom of boys, plus an older daughter – about something the internet loves to call impossible: exclusively breastfeeding twins. Mallory breastfed her singleton first (a rocky, painful start that a second lactation consultant completely turned around, leading to 18 months of nursing), and when she found out she was expecting twins she decided to give it a try with a simple rule: if it works, amazing, and if it doesn’t, a fed baby is a good baby. Five months in with her boys, it’s working. Lees meer

   Nat and Mallory walk through what actually got her there: ditching the myth that you must tandem feed from day one, learning to feed and teach one baby at a time, leaning hard on her husband as her number-one support, and booking lactation help early so she had validation and a safety net. They get into the meat scale her hunter husband rigged up for weighted feeds, why poops and pees are the real proof your babies are thriving, and why babies – like the rest of us – choose their own meal sizes (a “potato chip” feed one time, a “tomahawk steak” feed the next).

   The conversation also clears up a lot of noise: breastfeeding should not hurt for more than a few seconds, oversupply is not the flex social media makes it out to be, you need almost no special gear, and the right breastfeeding pillow depends on your torso, not the trend. Nat shares why the right lactation pro – ideally an experienced IBCLC with multiple-birth experience – matters so much, how virtual consults can solve everything from latch to flange size, and the truth that lactation support has been a covered benefit since 1994. Most of all, this is a reassuring, funny, myth-busting episode for any twin parent who has been told they can’t – with Nat’s north star throughout: the goal isn’t exclusive breastfeeding, the goal is no regrets.

   A QUICK SHOUTOUT 📣

   This episode is brought to you by Dr. Brown's — the #1 pediatrician-recomm…

10. A Twin Dad on the Regrets, Rewards, and Pure Joy of Raising Identical Girls with Dr. Charles Glassman

    17 juni 2026 · 52 min

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    In this special Father's Day episode of the Twiniversity Podcast, Natalie sits down with Dr. Charles Glassman — internist, life coach, podcast host, and twin dad of identical girls now in their late 20s. Charles and Natalie cover the full arc of twin parenting from the moment of the surprise diagnosis (spoiler: his wife was "just pregnant" until a 16-week sonogram revealed two heads) all the way through the extraordinary milestone of his daughters celebrating their 21st birthday together in Paris — and the business partnership they've built since. It's an honest, warm, and deeply encouraging conversation for twin parents at any stage, told from the rare perspective of a dad who is also a physician, a middle child, and someone who has learned — sometimes the hard way — that patience, perspective, and knowing when to take a time-out are the best parenting tools in the kit. Lees meer

    Charles opens up about the regret he carries most (not carving out enough individual one-on-one time with each twin), the moment he confirmed his daughters were monozygotic at Disney World, why discovering their identical DNA at age 12 may have accelerated their drive for independence, and how — after going to different colleges on purpose — they ended up choosing the same semester abroad rather than spend a year apart from each other's best friend. Plus: the "Daddy takes a time-out" technique that every twin parent needs to hear.

    Connect with Dr. Charles Glassman:

    Website: www.charlesglassmanmd.com

    The Coach MD Podcast: Listen on Apple - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-coachmd-podcast/id1728326555

    His daughters' creative agency: Aperitif Collective — sister-owned branding & design, Miami - https://www.aperitifcollective.com/

    Instagram: instagram.com/coachmdofficial

    Facebook: facebook.com/CoachMD

    X (Twitter): @CoachMDofficial

    YouTube: youtube.com/@CoachMDofficial

    EPISODE THEMES 📝

    Parenting four kids (two singletons + twins) and learning to navigate the balance

    Why clumping twi…

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