Dad's Guide to Twins

Newborn Twins

Tips and insights for parenting your newborn twins. This will be a difficult season but you can do it!

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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Car Seats for Twins

Shopping for car seats for twins can be a challenge. Car seats are one of the most important things you need to buy for your babies. In fact, the medical staff won’t let you leave the hospital without car seats for your twins. Find a Car Seat You Love, Then Buy Two Unlike strollers, or [...]

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Where to Shop Online for Twin Related Products

As a parent of twins, you’ll likely want to purchase twin related products like books, clothes, gifts, etc. for both your twins and yourself. Here’s a list of several online stores that offer products specifically for twins and parents of twins: Just Multiples Double Blessings Double Up Books Trends In Twos Twinz Gear Just 4 [...]

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5 Ways a New Twin Father Can Get More Sleep

Don’t expect to get lots of sleep with newborn twins in your house. As you know, sleep deprivation is brutal and will be your reality for several months with newborn twins. You have to change your expectations and routine to try and maximize the sleep you can get. Here are some things you can do [...]

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Financial Impact of Having Twins

One of the first things I thought when we found out we were having twins was: “how am I going to pay for all of this?” If you haven’t already, you will experience this same concern. I wish I could tell you the exact amount you’ll spend on your twins. Unfortunately, every twin pregnancy, birth, [...]

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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 much baby gear do you really need with twins?

I got the following great question from an expectant father of twins: “Do I really need all that gear and a double stroller or can I get away with one?” This question underscores one of the great concerns with having twins: the cost of all the stuff you have to get for your babies. The [...]

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How to Soothe Crying Twins

I get lots of questions about how to handle crying twins. In fact, one of the most popular questions I get is: Will twins cry a lot? The answer is yes. All newborns cry a lot. That is the only way they have to communicate with you. It is perfectly normal for your twins to [...]

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