About Us

Are you expecting twins? Are you a parent of twins or multiple birth children? Then this is for you!

What is Twins Plus?

Twins Plus Singapore started sometime in late 1990s. From 1998-2001, it was coordinated by Barbara Potgieter (twins Sarah & Luke (Jun 97) and younger daughter Hannah). They numbered about 10 families... now more than 10 years later, we are close to 150 families!
Twins Plus is a non-profit, all-volunteer group formed to provide its members support, guidance and sharing of information pertinent to bearing and raising multiple birth children in Singapore. We are a mix of foreigners and local Singaporeans and welcome anyone who is interested in joining the group!

We meet regularly at our monthly gatherings and at our age-appropriate babies & toddlers playgroups. We also organise talks on specific subjects (with or without experts), and we launched specific support groups for parents of preemies & parents who went through fertility treatments!
Additionally, social activities are held throughout the year with members‘ children and spouses. An informative resource library is also available for members' use.
So if you are expecting twins or have twins (or any higher number!) and would like to meet with similar others and want to share experiences, join us!

We represent about 150 families. We just finished with another successful garage sale and had a lovely Christmas gathering. You can now also find us on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=logo#/profile.php?ref=name&id=100000422943385

Twins Plus at the end of 2006:

We represent almost 100 families, on par with 2005 – not that we have stopped growing, but Singapore being a regional hub, many of our families have left the country to follow other job opportunities.
But in 2006, close to 80% of you have signed up for another year, which is very positive for us!
• Today we have 85 families of twins and 14 families of higher multiples. That means almost 220 kids ranging from 0 to 9 years, or 260 children if you include the siblings.
• Close to 50% of our multiples are born in or after 2005… or are yet to arrive, and as a whole 90% are born in or after 2002.
• 38 of our families have siblings, and although only 5 chose to have other kids after their multiples, 4 of our families of higher multiples already had children before the arrival of their kids. No doubt they have an idea or two about time management!

We realise that over the years our parents have grown more committed (as you would have seen at our garage sale), not basically “buying a service”, but here to help each other, creating a sense of belonging which is so important, and makes us very proud of what we are! Thanks and let’s keep it going!

The Twins Plus Team

The following people help manage the groups' activities and operations:

Tiffany & husband Sean with Graeme (L) & Liam (R)	Tiffany is our Welcome and Mentoring Program Coordinator. Please mail to Tiffany@twinsplussing.com if you are new to Singapore &/or Twins Plus, or you wish to join our Mentoring Program!
Picture to come soon!	Priscilla is our Treasurer and Membership Administrator. Please mail to Priscilla@twinsplussing.com if you want to join!
Delina with Chantel & Aiden	Delina has been helping out with Twins Plus since Dec 2004 and is currently our Website Administrator.
Kelly with Enzo, Remi & Ilian	Kelly is our Marketing, PR and Talks Coordinator. She can be contacted via email at Kelly@twinsplussing.com
Picture to come soon!	Joy-marie is coordinator for the Playgroup for multiples born in 2008/09! Email her at Joymarie@twinsplussing.com!
Rishab, Rahul & Priyanka	Priyanka came on board in end 2007 to help us coordinate the Playgroup for multiples born in 2007. Contact Priyanka at Priyanka@twinsplussing.com!
Nicole with Jenna, Leslie & Lennart	Nicole has always been a familiar face at our gatherings & Garage Sales, plus lending her talents in producing a short video clip on Twins Plus & now she is our Newsletter Editor. If you have interesting articles/info to contribute, email her at Nicole@twinsplussing.com
Sasha with Aaron, Alijah, Sara & Hadi	Sasha is a treasure of resources for other parents. Not only will she always take the time to respond at length to questions posted on our Forum of Discussion, but she also offered to take the lead on our support group for Preemies! Do write to Sasha@twinsplussing.com or call her on 8322-6273 if you need some help!
Kavita & Prashant with twins Sofya & Reyna, & older sister Saiya	Kavita eagerly offered to help out soon after she joined as a member in Aug 07 & is our Special Projects Coordinator!
Picture to come soon!	Angelyn helps manage our Buy & Sell Portal. She can be contacted at Angelyn@twinsplussing.com
Angelika	Angelika is our Outreach Coordinator - always such a big help when it comes to organising our Annual Garage Sale! She can be contacted at Angelika@twinsplussing.com

But there are many other people who helped us throughout the years...

Just to name a few:

Laurie (here with sons Evan & Seth b. 2001) was the president of Twins Plus from 2002 to early 2005. She now lives in Los Angeles

Petra (with Tom & Mark b. 2003) was membership admin cum treasurer cum website master from 2004 til early 2005, when she moved to Dubai

Petra (with Nicole & Bianca b. 2003) was in charge of the PG03 for a year until she moved to Sydney in November 2005

Delina, Cecile, Laurie, Cynthia & Petra at Laurie's farewell

Purnima with Aum & Aditya (b. 2004)
Purnima was our PR coordinator from mid 05 to Dec 06

Agnes & Per with Daniel & Nicholas (b. 2004)
Agnes was PG coordinator for the 2004 kids until she left Spore early 2007

Germa & Marina
Germa & Marina were in charge of the PG02 until 2007

Leesa coordinated the PG05 together with Megan before moving back to Perth

Cecile with Lois & Elia (b. 2003)
Cecile came on board in Feb 2004 & after Laurie left, took over as the driving force till Sept 2007. She has since moved to Switzerland. She was Welcome coordinator, breastfeeding expert, web manager, librarian - just to name a few of her many roles in TwinsPlus.

Ayda with Dilge Su, Eren and Artun
Ayda provided wonderful DIY activity ideas for our Newsletters & over the years, has become an expert in managing allergies.

Nicola, a GP by training, helped out as our Talks Coordinator - organising sessions conducted by Paediatricians, until late last year.

Megan with Connor & Rhuari (b. 2005)
Megan started out as PG 2005 coordinator while she was expecting, began our After-ART support group & was editor for our Newsletter in 4th quarter of 2007.

Press archives

They have been writing about us and/or our members!

- Expat Living (April 2008) writes about Twins Plus & its role in the life of 3 of our members

- Motherhood Magazine (January 2008 - Page 1, 2, 3, 4) provides a nice collection of photos & quotes from our members

- Today newspaper (15 June 2007 - Page 1 and Page 2) is celebrating Father's day with Humphrey Chin, a super-dad of 5
(Copyright 2007 MediaCorp Press Ltd. Courtesy of TODAY)

- Family Magazine (December 2005) about parenting multiples

- MotherHood Magazine (December 2005) about Charissa's special pregnancy

- The New Paper (November 2002) about Shirley's quads

And you may also have read about Anita's triplets in the December 06's issue of Mother & Baby?

Jerrell, Jade & Jarrett @ 10 months