Dad's Guide to Twins

The First Year with Twins: Survival Tips

Here’s some tips for surviving the first year with twins. If you can make it through this first year, you can do anything!

Key Mindset with Twins: Today’s Challenge Is Only Temporary

At every stage of your twins’ progress, from pregnancy onwards, there will be challenges. You’ll deal with physical burdens, mental strain, marital frustrations, discipline issues, feeding problems, and tons of messes. One way to keep your sanity is to remember that the current moment is only temporary. There is an extra heavy dose of craziness [...]

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How to Deal with Decreased Marital Intimacy After Twins Are Born

I’ve gotten emails from a few dads asking about the decrease in marital intimacy and related bedroom activities after the twins are born. How can you keep the relationship with your wife alive and well? How can you prepare for this? The newborn months with twins are such a blur that everything reverts to survival [...]

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Color Coding Clothing for Identical Twins Won’t Work Forever

If you use color-coded clothing to tell your twins apart, keep in mind that this won’t last forever. We dressed our girls differently for several months after they were born. This helped us tell them apart at a glance and helped others tell our twins apart, as well. However, our little twin babies started to [...]

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Can both parents keep working after twins?

An expectant twin dad wrote and asked, “Can both parents keep working after twins?” The short answer is yes, they can. If you both really want to, you can make it happen. However, you both have to really want to work. If one or the other parent is at all a little undecided about this, [...]

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Good Sleeper / Bad Sleeper: How to Handle Sleeping Twins

I got an email from a father of twins seeking advice on how to get both his twin girls to sleep in the same room. One is a really good sleeper and the other is very restless. Will a restless twin wake up her sister if they are in the same room? Our girls seemed [...]

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How to Juggle Time Demands with Twins and a Toddler

I got a great question this week from an expectant twin father who already has a young son at home. He wondered about how he would juggle time demands with twins and a toddler. Having a toddler by himself is a handful for any parent. When you combine that with newborn twins, things get really [...]

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How to Get Twins Ready for Bed

Getting your twins ready for bed is often an adventure. Regardless if your twins are newborns or toddlers, you will have the daily responsibility of getting your twins ready for bed. Here are some tips I’ve found useful for getting our twin girls ready for bed: Bed Time Routine Consistency and a familiar routine are [...]

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Twins Don’t Initially Think of Themselves as Twins

Your twins will recognize themselves as siblings–brothers or sisters–before they realize they are twins. Twin Label The label of “twins” seems to be pressed upon your twins instead of being something that they naturally recognize and claim for themselves. The “twin” label seems to be a reference point that is picked up later in life [...]

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When a Grown-up Twin Meets Your Twins

While out in public with your twins, many people will stop and ask you about your twins. This is natural and expected. Most often they will ask benign questions and then you part ways. Occasionally, you will be stopped by someone who is a twin themselves. You won’t get stupid questions about your twins from [...]

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7 Ways Infant Twins Are Fun to Take Out In Public

While it may feel like infant twins keep you stuck at home every day, the reality is that when you do go out in public, it is usually a noteworthy adventure. Any trip you take to the store, church, or park will merit superstar status. 1. Special Treatment Carrying twins around, one in each arm, [...]

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