With the boys reaching beyond the 6month mark, I’m pleased to realize that they’ve achieved some important milestones, not just for progress in baby development, but integral points in twin development.
It’s an old cliche, but it is a dirty job, and you’ve got to do it. In the case of twins, you have to do it a whole helluva lot. Not only do you have to buy and provide twice as many diapers and wipes, but you’ll be wrist-deep in poop in no time and spending much of your time above the changing table. Here are some tips and ideas that may help. › Continue reading
There are some things you can prepare for, and some things that come as a complete surprise. When you’re dealing with twins, there’s definitely more of the latter. So in writing these advice pieces and recanting our own experiences, perhaps it can help others to be prepared for some of the things that I wish I had known about in advance.
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Over a month into the game, and we’re starting to get things figured out, but I thought I’d give a rough idea of what a day in the life of raising newborn twins might entail.
A typical day, like today for example, looks something like this: › Continue reading
So there’s the wait. You’re expecting multiples, and you’re so concerned about being prepared just in case the twins decide to come early, that when they don’t… you’re in a weird limbo of knowing it’s going to happen at any time, it’s just a matter of when. But not yet. Not quite yet.
So you wait.
There’s any number of things you can do to try and remain somewhat sane while you wait for your entire life to change with the arrival of not just one, but more than one baby.
There’s really only so many times you can repack the ‘hospital bag’, or take a stroll around the nursery you put so much effort into and look at a pair of cribs all squished in there.
In my case, it’s the garden. More specifically the pond (or water garden). Takes up as much time as you like, you can always do more, or less. And if you feel like it, you can do nothing but just sit around and watch it, if that’s what you feel like doing.
Yes, as lame as it is, there’s a certain amount of absurd pride that the water lily actually bloomed this year. Hence the pictures.
