Dad's Guide to Twins

Being a Father of Twins: a Twin Dad’s Toughts

What it is like to be a father of twins. Thoughts, challenges, joys, and insight into the adventure of being a twin dad.

Six Ways Your Friends Can Help You Care for Newborn Twins

The early days with newborn twins are a physical, mental, and emotional challenge. You’d be wise to recruit some friends or family to come and help you during the early months with your twins. What should you ask them to do? Anything you currently take for granted or where extra hands would make things easier. [...]

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Twinproofing Your Home

The safety of your twins should be one of your top priorities. As such, twinproofing your home is something you need to do. What is Twinproofing? Twinproofing is how you childproof your home when you have twins. Having twins in your home requires special safety considerations. You Need Basic Childproofing for Twins Too The classic [...]

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How to Bond with Your Twins

As a father of twins, you want to bond with your twins and build a strong, lasting relationship. The key to this bond with your twins is to spend one-on-one time with each of them individually. If you spend all your time with both twins, your attention will be divided. Remember that your twins are [...]

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Overcoming the Nerves of First Time Fatherhood and Twins

So you’re expecting twins and they will be your first children. Congratulations! Naturally, you’re a little nervous about the whole thing. It is natural to be nervous or a little scared about having twins. You’ll have two big challenges: the learning curve of being a father and the learning curve of having twins. The good [...]

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How Grandparents Can Help with Twins

How can grandparents help with the twins and effectively support their children in this new adventure? Once your parents find out that you are having twins, they will want to help. Depending on your parents’ style, that may be forceful help or more subtle in their offers to help you. Naturally, you’ll need to adapt [...]

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5 Keys to a Strong Relationship with Your Wife After Twins

Having twins and surviving the newborn months is one of the hardest things that your marriage will have to endure. Realizing that this is the case, many of you have written to me and asked for advice on how to keep your relationship with your wife strong and ensure you have alone time once the [...]

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At the Hospital: Introducing the Twins to Your Other Children

After your twins are born, when should you bring their siblings to the hospital to meet them? How should you prepare them for meeting the infant twins and seeing Mom in a hospital bed? When our twin girls were born, our other boys were 3 and 1.5 years old. They knew that baby sisters would [...]

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How to Help Your Wife Feed the Twins

An expectant father of twins asked me: “How do I help my wife with feeding responsibilities, especially since we have a 1.5-year-old as well?” Even though feeding time with twins can get crazy, I enjoyed the opportunity to help feed my infant daughters. With our previous singleton births, my wife was able to handle the [...]

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5 Non-TV Ways to Keep Siblings Busy While You Tend to the Twins

If you are lucky enough to have young children in the house when twins join your family, you get the bonus of an extra adventure. A big challenge in this case is: how do you keep the older kids busy while you tend to the babies? Here are some things you can have your twins’ [...]

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Do you ever get to go out without kids again?

One of the great challenges of parenting twins is that you never get out of the house without them. If this goes on too long, it directly impacts your sanity and happiness. In fact, one parent of twins wrote and asked me, “Do you ever get to go out without kids again?” When it comes [...]

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