How to Handle Picture and Video During Twin Delivery

As a proud father, you’ll want to preserve the arrival of your twins for future posterity.
To do so, you need to be prepared with a plan for getting the pictures and video you want.
You need to keep in mind how your twins will arrive, where they will arrive, and what you will be doing during [...]

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8 Things Every Dad Feels When He Learns He is Having Twins

When you find out that you are having twins, you will experience a range of emotions.
Be prepared for this array of feelings:
Fear
You’ll experience fear. Fear of what? Fear of the unknown. You realize that having twins will not be easy. You’re not afraid of hard work but you don’t really know what your reality will [...]

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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 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 food, sippy cups, [...]

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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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The Exact Number of Kids that are Easy to Care For

With twins, you feel like you are always busy, always have your hands full, and never seem to get a break.
If you have other children in addition to twins, you’ll be busy from the time the kids wake up until they go to bed.
I discovered recently the secret formula that indicates how many kids are [...]

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Sleep Deprivation is Torture

One of the most trying aspects of having newborn twins is sleep deprivation.
Sleep deprivation is torture.
Think about those old war or spy movies where the hero is literally tortured by being forced to stay awake. Just when the hero falls asleep, the bad guys wake him up.
You, my friend, are the hero.
Unfortunately, your twins play [...]

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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 your kids will need [...]

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When to Move to the Next Size Diapers

Your twins will go through diapers at a rate that will surprise you.
“Didn’t we just buy a box of diapers?” you’ll ask, surprised, when you see your stock running low. (The answer is always “yes,” by the way.)
One of the challenges of diapers is knowing when to move up to the next size. Each size [...]

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The Only Way to Get Pictures With Your Twins

One of my regrets about our twins’ first year was that I didn’t get more pictures with both my girls.
You may have a similar problem. If you don’t actively make the effort to get pictures with both of your twins, it just won’t happen.
It may seem a little silly to plan for pictures, maybe a [...]

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