Of all the pieces of gratuitous advice well-wishers hand out to first-time parents, perhaps the most obvious is “your life will never be the same”. For Michael and Rebecca Boyd, that resonated in duplicate when they learned they were having twins.
But the make-or-break moment for the young couple from the NSW coastal city of Newcastle came when Rebecca was made redundant from her job as a food technologist while she was on maternity leave. Fortunately, Michael’s job