Cute Clothes for Twins

Are you lookig for a present for twins? Or their parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles... Check out Just 4 Twins, they sell really cute clothes for the entire twin-family!

Pregnant with twins: what to expect

If you just found out you are carrying twins, you most likely will be desperate for information - at least I was! This is a really interesting article about what is happening in your body, what difficulties can occur and how to react: Twins, Triplets and other Multiples

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Twin names: get inspired!

Are you still looking for names for your twins? These are the most popular ones: Popular names for twins in 2009 !


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Excellent Article About How To Survive as a Parent

I just stumbled upon this really helpful article about five basic principles for staying calm and in control around your kids. It is not only for twin parents but it might be especially useful for them, because two children at a time can bring you to the edge so much faster...

Here it goes: 5 Parenting tips for a peaceful, screamfree home

I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!

Desperation

A conversation between Max and Clara:

Max, with his wooden sword: “Clara, do you want to play knights and dragons with me?”

Clara (painting a picture with her crayons): „No“

Max: „Clara, do you want to play mom and dad and baby with me?“

Clara: „No“

Max, desperate: „Do you want to play Hello Kitty with me?“

Clara: „No“

Max, almost crying by now: „if you don´t want to play with you, I´ll have to beat you up, and then mommy will punish me!“

Visit to the cemetery

We make a trip to our villages cemetery to lay down some sunflowers at the grave of a cousin who has died a year ago with just 21 years in a car crash. Max and Clara touch the flowers in front of his niche in the cemteries wall. There is an abundance of potted flowers, fotos and letters, his death has touched the entire village. Clara „We can´t steal these flowers, right Max?“ Max, thoughful: „No, I guess not, he is our cousin after all“. Clara:“Yeah, and he can see us from heaven!“

Twins Sleeping Problems: 9 Tips to Help You and Your Babies to Get a Good Nights Sleep

Being parents of twins is one of the most beautiful expericences you can have – and one the most exhausting ones. Most parents of young twins are seriously sleep deprived, feeding and changing diapers almost every hour in the beginning takes its toll. While infants will need some time to learn that the night is for sleeping and not for being carried around, feeding and playing, older babies are perfectly capable of learning just that. But with two at your hands it seems to even more difficult to implement some rules and routines that lead to healthy sleeping patterns. This article gives you some tips on how to solve your twins sleeping problems – and start getting some sleep for yourself again. As a mother of twins and a singleton, all three of them bad sleepers at one time or another, I know what I'm talking about – believe me!

So what can you do to teach your twins how to sleep through the night? Here we go:

0. Be realistic: infants and very small babies are just not able to sleep more than a couple or three hours at a time. They still need to adapt to the world they have been born into and have to learn the fact that the night is for sleeping and the day for playing, eating, going for walks... With twins the process of adaption might be longer, often they are smaller than singletons and more so if they are born premature.

1. Make sure your twins get regular naps during the day. Babies need more sleep than they get at night, if they take naps during the day they will sleep better during the night.

2. Have a bedtime routine. Avoid too much excitement before bedtime, quiet activities like reading a story (although they won't be able to understand a word, they will enjoy the calming tone of your voice), sing a song, give them a relaxing bath... Beware though, some babies get really wound up by all the activity that comes with a bath!

3. Get you twins at the same schedule. This will be possible with most twins, but not all of them. But having your twins taking their naps at the same time will free up time for you – to do household chores, catch up on other duties or get some rest yourself.

4. Teach your twins to go to sleep by themselves. This is possibly the single most important thing you can do to ensure your babies sleep though the night. If they are able to fall asleep by themselves when you put them to bed, they will be able to do the same when they wake up at night.

5. Let your twins sleep in the same bed. Most twins (but again: not all of them) are comforted by the presence of their sibling. This is especially true for small babies. Later on there will be a moment when they start or fighting or playing with each other, both activities that won't allow them to go to sleep. Then you know it is time for a second bed (and even for two separate rooms, my twins just started to throw their bunnies and dolls at each other and had the time of their lives – but they didn't go to sleep!)

6. If your twins are really nervous, you can try to swaddle them. Swaddling is a century old technique of wrapping the baby up in a blanket so it can't really move its legs and feet too much. Swaggling helps especially nervous babies to calm down.

7. When your twins wake up at night, make sure they go right back to sleep by making circumstances as uninteresting for them as possible. Don't switch on the light, don't talk too much to your babies, don't sing, feed them, carry them around, dance with them... Teach them that the night is for sleeping.

8. Last, but not least: don't listen too much to what every body else is telling you. It seems that virtually everbody has an opinion on why your babies won't sleep, and you will get more pieces of contradictory advice than you can handle. You are the one who knows your twins best, and you will be able to solve their sleeping problems!