Posted on June 30, 2007 in Latest News
While parenting a single child is a difficult task in itself, parenting twins seems like a “Herculean” task! However, twins can be taken care of efficiently if you plan things out beforehand. Paying equal attention to both might be difficult but is very necessary for a healthy development.
Having twins can be a marvelous experience but they also have their own complications. Twins take birth when a single egg splits or when two eggs fertilize separately.
The Following are Tips on Parenting Twins:
- Try and contact a twin club or become an active member of it. This will help you interact with other parents with twins.
- As twins can be identical, to correctly identify them, use wristbands with their names or select different clothing and bedding.
- It is important to remember that even though they are twins they can behave quite differently. This attitude difference has to be dealt with patiently.
- Even though it can be painful don’t forget to breast-feed your twins. Also remember that u can’t give one child nutrition and deprive the other of it. Take rounds and do it. The way is to pump some breast milk into a bottle and give it to the other child while you are feeding one.
- Having twin’s means that you are going to have a hectic time. So always accept help from others. This will help you make some time for yourself.
- Always try and get a good night’s sleep. Many a time this might not be possible as both don’t sleep at the same time. So when they do, you can get some sleep.
- Making a routine can help you manage time. For example, fix a certain time in the day for bathing, feeding, sleeping, washing, etc.
- The time spent with each twin will be different just because of its habits. So don’t blame yourself for it.
- Fathers are important while raising twins. They should play an active role in sharing the workload.
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July 3rd, 2007 at 8:36 am
It gets more difficult if you have twins and one of them is very naughty. Sometimes I feel like crying taking care of them.