Tell your local MP: multiple birth families need 1000 days of support!

Tell your local MP: multiple birth families need 1000 days of support!

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The Australian Multiple Birth Association in partnership with PerCapita have released a report, "Multiples Matter: Investigating the Support Needs of Multiple Birth Families". The findings were clear, multiple birth families need more support. 

Parents of multiples are blessed with unimaginable joy, but also unavoidable challenges. Twins are 5 times more expensive and triplets 13 times more expensive than singletons. 

Every year there are approximately 4,202 parents who give birth to multiples. Of these;

  • only 11% felt adequately supported in Australia;
  • 72% of multiples spend time in the neonatal intensive care unit after they are born;
  • 61% experience mental health challenges following the birth of their multiples;
  • 42% feel they are often overwhelmed and exhausted and need much more support;
  • 67% say childcare is not affordable and 53% struggle to secure spots in early education for their multiples; and 
  • 1 in 5 mothers feel very underprepared to breastfeed multiples and need much more support.

Australia is falling behind when it comes to support for multiple birth families and currently offer the lowest amount of support compared to OECD countries. 

It is time for a change! Lets improve the lives of Australian multiple birth families and help get the support they desperately need. 

 

The Australian Multiple Birth Association in partnership with PerCapita have released a report, "Multiples Matter: Investigating the Support Needs of Multiple Birth Families". The findings were clear, multiple birth families need more support. 

Parents of multiples are blessed with unimaginable joy, but also unavoidable challenges. Twins are 5 times more expensive and triplets 13 times more expensive than singletons. 

Every year there are approximately 4,202 parents who give birth to multiples. Of these;

  • only 11% felt adequately supported in Australia;
  • 72% of multiples spend time in the neonatal intensive care unit after they are born;
  • 61% experience mental health challenges following the birth of their multiples;
  • 42% feel they are often overwhelmed and exhausted and need much more support;
  • 67% say childcare is not affordable and 53% struggle to secure spots in early education for their multiples; and 
  • 1 in 5 mothers feel very underprepared to breastfeed multiples and need much more support.

Australia is falling behind when it comes to support for multiple birth families and currently offer the lowest amount of support compared to OECD countries. 

It is time for a change! Lets improve the lives of Australian multiple birth families and help get the support they desperately need. 

 

Sign our petition and support multiple birth families!

We are calling on all Australian politicians to make commitments on: 

 

  1. Additional parental leave for twins and triplets +: 

  2. In-home care support program; and 

  3. Increased financial support for families with multiples. 

 

Do you think twins should be recognised by the Government as a multiple birth? Do you think multiple birth families need more support? Sign the petition now!

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