From the category archives:

Eating

A Twin Dad’s Ideal Baby Shower: Think Food

Most baby showers produce cute clothes and maybe some diapers. And if you’re lucky, you’ll have a few people actually shop off your registry. While all of these things are necessary, let’s face it, they don’t directly help you, the twin dad.
Think about your circles of friends. You may get offers for baby showers from [...]

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How to Handle Your Twins Swapping Food and Drink at Mealtime

Your twins will trade food and drinks during meals and snack times.
So how do you know how much each child has eaten or had to drink?
We’ve sat our twins in booster chairs next to each other since they started eating solid foods.
Due to their proximity to each other, they tend to swap food, sippy cups, [...]

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Why you don’t need high chairs for your twins

When your twins are ready to start eating solid foods, you’ll need somewhere for them to sit.
Traditionally, this means buying high chairs.
Since you’ve got twins, you are already used to unconventional methods, so here is another tip:
Buy booster seats that fit on your normal kitchen chairs instead of buying high chairs.

Eventually your kids will need [...]

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How to Clean Up the Kitchen Floor After Twins Eat

Babies are messy eaters.
Twins combine each other’s messiness to create a perfect storm of mess that seems to be larger than the sum of each individual baby’s mess.
Once your babies are eating solids and feeding themselves, your twins will make a mess with every single meal that they eat.
This means that there will be food [...]

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How to Get Your Twins to Transition to Whole Milk

By the first birthday, your twins will be ready to make the switch from breast milk or formula to whole milk.
How can you make this transition an easy and successful one?
Chocolate.
Call it a bribe. Call it cheating. I don’t care.
The way to get your twins to make the move to whole milk is to [...]

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Bottle Feeding Twins: Middle of the Night Tips

If you choose to bottle feed your twin babies, you’ll face the challenge of making bottles in the middle of the night.
The middle of the night feeds are generally heralded when one of your babies starts crying. This jars you from your slumber and pulls you out of your warm bed. You may even find [...]

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Should you breastfeed or bottlefeed twins?

There always seems to be a lively debate about whether you should breastfeed or bottlefeed babies. The advances in formula have made the health questions behind that decision a pretty even trade off.
As a father of twins, what to feed your babies is more of a logistical question: how will you physically be able [...]

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Should Twins be on the Same Schedule?

You’ll keep your sanity with any infant if you can get your baby on a predictable schedule. This is even more true with twins.
Should you keep your twins on the same schedule? The answer is, “It depends.”
It depends on a few factors, but primarily comes down to the time of day and how many helpers [...]

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