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!

5 Non-TV Ways to Keep Siblings Busy While You Tend to the Twins

If you are lucky enough to have young children in the house when twins join your family, you get the bonus of an extra adventure. A big challenge in this case is: how do you keep the older kids busy while you tend to the babies? Here are some things you can have your twins’ [...]

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Tips to Enjoy the Quickly Passing Moments with Infant Twins

Newborn twins will wear you out and make you miserable — if you let them. However, the misery can be countered by the happy and joyful moments of watching your little twins. If you don’t pay attention to the joy of your little twins, you’ll soon realize they have grown up and you didn’t notice. [...]

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5 Ways to Help People Recognize Your Twins as Individuals

A common concern of parents of twins is “How can I help people recognize my kids as individuals and not just as “the twins”?” It is easy for most people to see a pair of twins and automatically group them together. It is a shortcut because most people don’t care or have the time to [...]

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How to Tell Newborn Twins Apart in Pictures

With all the pictures you are taking of your newborn twins, how will you tell them apart? When your twins arrive, they will be swaddled up by the nurses at the hospital and whisked away to the nursery to warm up and be measured. Since the hospital has a standard set of blankets and head [...]

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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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Do identical twins have the same fingerprints?

Do identical twins have the same fingerprints? No. They don’t. Identical twins are identical because they came from the same fertilized egg that split very early in the pregnancy process. The twins therefore share the same DNA and physical characteristics. However, fingerprints are formed well after that fertilized egg split and each twin is growing [...]

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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 can I love my twins as much as my other child?

An expectant twin father that already has a son asks, “How can I love more children as much as I love my current son?” This frequently asked question is one asked by most fathers, particularly those having a second child (and third in the case of twins). As you begin the parenthood journey, you grow [...]

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NICU Twins and Your Emotional Preparation

With any twin pregnancy, the chances of your twins arriving early are significantly greater than a singleton pregnancy. Too often, premature twins must spend time in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit or NICU. Every parent seems to have the ideal situation in mind when going to the hospital for the twins’ birth: Babies will be [...]

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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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