“I’m writing a post on tips for surviving with newborn twins” I announced to my husband during dinner in between frantically dicing up food for our 13-month-old twin girls, who inhale food at an impossibly fast speed. “Really. Are you sure we survived??” he asked as he picked up a sippy cup that was tossed …
When I found out I was expecting twins, I thought I would easily figure out breastfeeding twins. I breastfed my first, Theo, up until he was about 11 months old. I loved that I was giving him good quality milk, that it was so easy (no bottles to wash, heck yes!), and that it was …
How to Prepare Your Toddler for a New Baby (or two!) Our first child, Theo, was only 18 months when we learned that we were having twins. We would be bringing home not one, but two babies, and were a little bit lot panicked. Bringing home one baby is a huge adjustment, but bringing home …
A few weeks ago I wrote a post that included a letter to Theo on his 3rd Birthday. I said that I was going to write letters for all of my children on their Birthday’s, and so here we are, 13 days after my twin girls 1st Birthday. I’m rather proud of myself for only being …
how to get twins to sleep through the night All three of my kids are great sleepers. As in 12 hours by 14 weeks great. I’ve had a lot of people ask me how it happened, and I have a very specific method that I followed with all of them. Today I will tell you …
“You’ve got your hands full” “I don’t know how you do it” “Wow! Are there three of them? Are those twins?” “You must be a very busy lady” Etc., etc., etc. You can just follow me around the grocery store and listen to people’s comments to determine that yes, I have my hands full, and yes, …
By the time we reached the labor and delivery floor, I was at that point in contractions where they hurt so mother freaking badly, that there was no relief. I was still reeling from the pain of the previous contraction when the next one hit. The labor and delivery floor was slammed, and the nurse …
The morning of the twins birth On February 9th I woke up, and I KNEW the babies were going to come that day. I felt an increase of pressure and slight discomfort in my pelvis. It reminded me of the way I felt the morning I went into labor with Theo. Ben had a huge presentation to give …
wWhen you find out you’re expecting twins, you do everything you can to prepare. For me, this consisted of reading everything I could find on twin pregnancies and births. The overwhelming majority of what I read made me incredibly anxious. A twin pregnancy is considered high risk, and I read story after story of women being put …
