Dad's Guide to Twins

How to Help Your Wife Cope with Twin Pregnancy Bed Rest

The odds of your wife going on bed rest during the twin pregnancy are much higher than with a singleton birth. Start thinking now how you can help your wife cope with and survive a twin pregnancy on bed rest. My wife wasn’t on full bed rest with our twins but the doctor wanted her [...]

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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 to Help Your Wife Feed the Twins

An expectant father of twins asked me: “How do I help my wife with feeding responsibilities, especially since we have a 1.5-year-old as well?” Even though feeding time with twins can get crazy, I enjoyed the opportunity to help feed my infant daughters. With our previous singleton births, my wife was able to handle the [...]

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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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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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What You Really Need to Learn About the Twin Pregnancy

I received a great question from an expectant twin parent: “What do you really need to know about the twin pregnancy (does it pay to read all the books that talk about risks, scary births, nicu, etc)?” Twin pregnancies have their risks and unique experiences which singleton births don’t have. Do you need to read [...]

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