Mia Hamm and Nomar Garciaparra’s twin secret: Teamwork
Mia Hamm and Nomar Garciaparra are familiar with the importance of strategizing given their accomplishments in their sports, but Mia says that’s carried over to parenting — she and Nomar made the decision to put their 10-month-old twin daughters, Ava Caroline and Grace Isabella, in separate rooms. Mia reveals,
They sleep in different rooms right now, so I have the monitor for one and he has one for the other. When my monitor goes off, I go. When his goes off, he goes.
For his part, Dodgers shortstop Nomar, 34, says that he doesn’t mind getting up at night, but diapers were initially frustrating for him as ‘there was no manual for that. With two you have to [change them].‘ Another annoyance particular to twins?
They didn’t tell you how to pick up bothof them at the same time.
Mia, 35, adds,
Or who to pick up first when they are both crying.It doesn’t tell you that. You’re afraid if you go to one the other isgoing to be hurt.
The gold medal winning former soccer star is keeping busy training for a half-marathon and has her hands full with Ava and Grace, but don’t count her and Nomar out just yet — she says their family may not be complete.
[There's] potential [for more]. If we’re blessed with another one, that’s fantastic. There are challenges. In the earlymorning, you’re thinking ‘Man, I could really use another half hour ofsleep.’ But you go in and it’s those smiles, they look at you likeyou’re a superhero.
Source: People
Thanks to CBB reader Shaina.
- Posted on Feb 9, 08 at 6:02PM
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February 9th, 2008 at 6:16 pm
As a mm to twins I can’t imagine having them in separate rooms, mine are now 7 and even though they have their own bed–in same room- one will crawl in with the other at night. But if this works for them great.
February 9th, 2008 at 7:26 pm
Ithink if they had a boy in the future they should name him Ramon because it is Nomar spelled backwards and cute considering the last name. Just my thoughts.
February 10th, 2008 at 7:28 am
I have two singletons, ages 4 and 6-going on 54. They had to share a room earlier this year because my sister and her husband stayed with us for a few months after moving back into town. Now, they won’t sleep apart. I always tuck them in together at night. If my husband tucks them in, he puts them in separate rooms. Usually around midnight, they both wake up, crying. They find each other in the hall and then go into one of the rooms and curl up in bed together. In the morning when I peak in on them, they are cuddled up together, holding on for dear life.
I think it is the cutest thing. I know that this will not go on for much longer, so I am going to let them (and me) enjoy it while it lasts.
February 10th, 2008 at 9:31 am
Mia is a Carolina girl. We love houses full of the laughter of children.
February 10th, 2008 at 11:11 am
My twin boys are 5 and they do the same as Lisa’s. Every morning they are in bed together.
February 10th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
My cousin’s twins are boy/girl, and they were in the same room until they switched to toddler beds at age 3. But like others have mentioned, the girl often goes into the boys room and they sleep in the same bed. They’re 4 1/2 now. So Mia may have them separate now, but the girls may have their own ideas once they’re older!
February 10th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
Awwwwh you guys stories sound so sweet.
February 10th, 2008 at 8:14 pm
I have boy/girl twins and although we had them together in a crib occasionally, by the time they were 15 months, they had their own rooms. The odd time we have found them asleep together in one bed (they’re 7 now) and sometimes they’ll fall asleep together now, but for the most part, they love having their own space. I think people often forget, twins are still just 2 separate kids that shared a uterus. It’s not ONE child. They have their own personalities, thoughts, and opinions. Let them do what they want. And as for Mia, maybe she had a reason for separating them. You don’t know what her story is. We had to separate ours because our daughter went through this night terror phase when she was about a year old and it used to wake her brother. As a parent, you do what works.