Top Tips To Help You Cope With Your Newborn Twins

<<>>Have you just found out that you are expecting Newborn Twins? Or are you just getting over the surprise or shock that you are carrying twins? And are you thinking how hard it will be taking care of them? Of course it’s going be hard , but its going to be a lot of fun too if you do some proper planning and preparation.Find here some tips to help you take control of the situation when your newborn twins arrive:

• If you plan on bottle feeding, you need extra hands or to be very creative . . If you have no help then you can do a number of things; For instance, You can hold them both in your arms , then use a pillows to hold bottles that are in bottle propers to a comfortable height and feed them that way
• Also , If don’t have any one to help you , use as much equipment as possible to help you. For instance , for baby carriers you can use things like a large sling for two babies or one baby in a carrier and another in your arms. You can use baby swings and infant seats. A playpen can prove to be of more use for your twins than one baby. It is safe and the twins can play together for much longer together
• Do as much as possible for your babies at the same time. If you can’t do things at the same time alternate. For instance bath one , one night and the other the next night or bath them every second or third night and sponge them in between
• Newborn nursing twins can be physically challenging but can have some advantages over bottle feeding like fussing with dozens of bottles and endless amounts of formula. Try the double breasted approach as it saves time. Alternate the breast each gets at every feeding time to avoid creating favourites and to avoid mismatched breasts , should one baby turn out to be a more proficient sucker than the other one , or one baby getting less to eat if one breast turns out to be less productive provider
• Plan your twin sleep schedule properly as sleep will be scarce for the first couple of months but it will be scarcier if you allow your babies to waken at random during the night . instead when the first cries, wake the second and feed them both
• When both parents are around , divide the house hold chores - cooking, cleaning , laundry, shopping and babies . You take over one baby, your spouse the other . Be sure to alternate babies so that both children get to know both parents well and vice versa
• Keep records - make note in a permanent record book for immunizations , illnesses and so on
• When you are better rested yourself , stagger nap time - put one child down 15 minutes before the other - so that you can shower some individualized attention on the one who is awake. Even every day baby chores , can become special one-on-one time for each child
• Join a play group or mother and baby group and alternate which child you bring along each week
• Other parents of newborn twins will be your best source of advice and support ; be sure to tap them. Find a parents-of-twins support group in your neighborhood, or if one is lacking , start one. But avoid becoming too clannish, socialising with only parents of twins and having your babies participate in twin only playgroups. Though there is something indisputably about being a twin, excluding your children from relationships with single children will discourage normal social development with peers – the majority of whom will not be twins