This kit was created to improve & provide important support literature for multiples and their families. This kit contains information for parents, grandparents, counsellors and others who may be working with single parents or twins, triplets, or more. Lone parenting situations can arise for a number of reasons: divorce, widow/widower, military postings, job demands, or by choice. This Kit contains two booklets and several fact sheets:

• Single Parents of Multiples booklet
• Multiples in School booklet
• Fact Sheets:
  • Assisting your Children in Handling Separation & Divorce
  • Military Spouses
  • Single Parenting of Multiples
  • Single Parents Reading List
  • Single Parent Resources
  • Suggestions for Widows/Widowers
  • Multiple Birth Terminology
  • Multiple Birth Facts & Figures
  • Copy of Council of Multiple Birth Organizations (COMBO) of the ISTS Declaration of Rights and Statement of Needs of Twins and Higher Order Multiples
  • Multiple Births Canada and You Fact Sheet
• Back issue of Multiple Moments
• Information on Multiple Births Canada and its Support Networks

Due to numerous requests for support on class placement of multiple-birth children, Multiple Births Canada now offers a Multiples in School Kit. The resources in this kit can be used by educators or by parents wishing to learn more about issues relating to multiples in school. Parents may wish to purchase a kit for their children's school.

The Multiples In School Kit includes:

• Letter stating MBC's position on classroom placement of multiple birth children (2 copies so you can keep one and give one to the school)
• Multiples in School booklet (2 copies so you can keep one and give one to the school)
• Multiples in School: Parents fact sheet
• Multiples in School: Educators fact sheet
• Multiple Births Facts & Figures fact sheet
• Multiple Births Canada and You fact sheet
• Higher Order Multiples
• Declaration of Rights and Statement of Needs of Twins and Higher Order Multiples adopted by the Council of Multiple Birth Organizations (COMBO) of the International Society for Twin Studies (ISTS)
• Guidelines for the Education of Multiple Birth Children provided by the National Organization of Mothers of Twins Clubs, Inc. (NOMOTC)
• The Multiple Challenge, by Anne Marie Owens, National Post
• Multiples in School - synopsis from Conference 2003 key note speaker, Pat Preedy, Ph.D.
• Direct Family Membership Application & Association Application
• Information on Multiple Births Canada and its Support Networks
• Back issue Multiple Moments magazine - Canada's only magazine for the Canadian Multiple-Birth Family
• Multiple Births Canada PR pamphlet

All the information you will need to start a Multiple Births Canada Chapter in your area. No local chapter near you? Don't wait to start a chapter, other families in your area will thank you.

This kit contains:

• Choice booklets for Chapter library
• One of every pamphlet for Chapter library (may be photocopied)
• General interest fact sheets for Chapter library
• Latest business reports – Business Plan, Annual Report, latest Post Conference Report
• 20 PR pamphlets
• 12 PR posters with labels (labels can be customized for your chapter and affixed to poster)
• MBC membership information and appropriate membership forms
• Past issue of Multiple Moments for Chapter library
• Past issue of Report From National for Chapter library (included in Multiple Moments)

Once your group registers as an MBC chapter, you will receive access to download the 65+ Fact Sheets and other electronic documents, ie. Chapter Handbook and Operating Guidelines, Fundraising Booklet, Resource Guide.

Members receive: a Welcome letter, an MBC membership card indicating your chapter name, and a password to the members only section of the website. Members receive 20% off all publications and may also purchase Multiple Moments magazine at half price! (Note: Some chapters include Multiple Moments as a benefit for each member in their membership fees.)

Chapter receives: a unique password to the Chapter Executive section of the website, the Chapter Handbook and Operating Guidelines binder, an MBC email address (yourchapter@multiplebirthscanada.org), a listing on the MBC website under Locate a Chapter, the opportunity to list your Chapter Sales as well as have MBC host your website for a one-time $25 fee. Benefits also include an invitation to attend MBC’s Annual General Meeting & Conference at member pricing – a great way to meet other m-b parents and share ideas with other chapters from across Canada - and one copy of each issue of Multiple Moments for you chapter library.

For more information on the benefits of membership, refer to the Membership section of this website.

$25.00 each

This Kit has been designed to assist professionals working with multiples and their families, i.e. doctors, nurses, midwives, doulas, funeral directors, educators, researchers. Recognizing the need for a comprehensive collection of data for professionals, Multiple Births Canada has created this kit so professionals can best answer questions and serve the multiple-birth families they encounter each day.

Our Professionals' Support Kit contains the following:

• a background and history of Multiple Births Canada (MBC)
• back issue of Multiple Births Canada's quarterly magazine, Multiple Moments
• Multiple Births Canada and You fact sheet
• a list of MBC publications together with Publications Order Form
• Professional Membership Form
• Association Membership Form
• Multiple Births Canada PR Pamphlet
• Multiple Births Canada PR Information for Professionals Pamphlet
• Information on Multiple Births Canada and its Support Networks

• Breastfeeding Multiples: Nipple Pain & Vasospasm
• Development in Utero
• Declaration of Rights and Statement of Twins and Higher Order Multiples
• Higher Order Multiples
• Incidence of Multiple Births
• Loss of One, More or All of your Multiple Birth Babies (La perte à la naissance de multiples)
• Low Birth Weight & Preterm Multiple Births: A Canadian Profile NEW November 2005!
  - Best Start: Ontario’s Maternal, Newborn and Early Child Development Resource Centre in partnership with Multiple Births Canada.  (Insuffisance de poids à la naissance et naissances multiples prématurées : Profil Canadien NEW November 2005!
  - Meilleur départ : Centre de ressources sur la maternité, les nouveau-nés et le développement des jeunes enfants de l'Ontario, de concert avec Naissances multiples Canada. )
• Multifetal Pregnancy Reduction
• Multiples in School: A Guide for Educators (Multiples et l'école : un guide pour des éducateurs)
• Nutritional Guide for a Multiple Birth Pregnancy
• Occipital Plagiocephaly of Positional Origin
• Possible Risks of a Multiple Pregnancy
• Multiple Births: Facts & Figures (Renseignements et statistiques sur les naissances multiples )
• Signs & Symptoms of Premature Labour (Signal d'alarme du travail prématuré)
• Twin to Twin Transfusion Syndrome
• Vanishing Twin Syndrome
• Zygosity Testing

$25.00 each