Dad's Guide to Twins

Feeding Twins

Tips and tricks on feeding twins. Learn different feeding methods, related challenges, and how feeding twins at the same time can be done!

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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How to Single-Handedly Bottle Feed Infant Twins

If you’ve decided to bottle feed your infant twins (with either formula or breast milk), you’ll need to figure out how to conquer the logistics of feeding two babies by yourself. As a parent, you won’t always have a pair of helping hands around to assist with feeding time. Help Holding You can try a [...]

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What to Stock Up On Before the Twins Arrive

You know that you’ll need a lot of stuff to be ready for twins. Once your twins arrive, the last thing that you’ll want to do — or have time to do — is go to the store. The solution? Stock up on everything. “Everything” consists of two categories: stuff your twins will use daily [...]

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How To Get Free and Cheap Baby Formula For Your Twins

If you decide to formula-feed your baby twins instead of breastfeeding, the costs can add up quickly. Formula is not cheap and you’ll need to try different brands and “flavors” to see what works best with your babies. The good news is that you don’t have to buy every ounce of formula your babies drink. [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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