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Health

Why It Is OK for Your Twins to Cry

According to the Mayo Clinic:
In any given day, the average newborn cries for two to three hours.
When you first get your twins home, it will seem like they are crying all the time.
Why?
Because they are.
When one is quiet, the other may very well be crying. So your perception is that the crying never stops.
You [...]

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Two Babies Means Double the Medical Expenses

It may come as no surprise that twins will typically cost you twice as much as a singleton baby.
Even though I know this (boy, do I know this!), I always feel a pinch of pain when I have to take both girls to the doctor and pay two insurance copays.
You’ll feel this financial pinch, too.
This [...]

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How to Survive Preemie Twins and the NICU

This is a guest post from fellow father of twins, Tom Williams.
A common thought among first-time dads of twins is the Neonatal intensive-care unit (NICU). I had no experience with any of this before my twins came.
A Little Background
My twins were due 9/21/09. My wife’s water broke, for reasons still unknown, at 29 [...]

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How to Handle Nighttime Care When Both Twins are Sick

Your twins won’t always get sick at the same time, but sometimes they do.
This will put extra strain on your family and household.
Our girls were both recently sick at the same time.
In summary, it felt like we had reverted to newborn twins again. They needed constant care and were up multiple times during the night.
After [...]

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Why You Want Twins to Start Walking at Different Times

You don’t want both of your twins to start walking at the same time.
Why?
Simple: attention, time, and back pain.
When your little ones start moving towards walking, odds are they will start pulling themselves up on the couch, bookcases, or anything else they can reach.
The next phase is where you hold their hands while they take [...]

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Why Vaccination Day Is the Saddest Day

One of the saddest things you will do as a dad is hold your babies down while they get a shot at the doctor’s office.
Hopefully you are helping your wife out and going to the doctor with her and the twins for their well baby checkups.
If so, you will be called upon to do a [...]

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Twins don’t always get sick at the same time

One of our twin daughters got sick with Roseola about 10 days ago. This was marked by several days of high fever, a fussy baby, and interrupted sleep for both her and her parents.
During this bout with the illness, her sister was just fine. That, of course, changed this past week as the previously healthy [...]

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How to Give Twins a Bath

Giving twins a bath is always an adventure. When our girls were newborns, we decided we would bathe one girl every other day.
That idea worked on paper, but in reality, with life being unpredictable, we couldn’t keep that schedule. We needed to make sure we got the girls bathed whenever we could.
Since our girls are [...]

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Why you need a daily log for your twins

You may think you have a good memory, but you don’t. (Or won’t, in the near future!)
You don’t have a good memory because of two things: sleep deprivation and twins.
During the early days of having your twins home, you will be so tired that you won’t trust yourself to remember anything important.
Unfortunately, you are responsible [...]

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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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