The hardest thing...

Anybody that says having twins is as easy as having one baby is insane. But I will say that it isn't as hard as having one. I think the hardest thing is having to let one cry while I tend to the other. While I know that it isn't hurting him, it always hurts mommy to hear her baby crying.

Here are some things that I have figured out over the last 6 1/2 months.

1) Always have them awake and asleep together. While you may think it is will be easier for you to spend "quality" time with one if they nap separate it will be better for you peace of mind if they nap together. This will turn into you time to nap, get things done, catch up on writing thank you notes, whatever you need to do. Now it will take you some time to get to this point, once you get them on a nap schedule. I think it was a couple of months before we were there. Now when one of the cranky twins wakes up in the morning I wake the other one up. That way when one is ready for a nap they other is too. It doesn't always work, but 98% of the time they keep the same schedule all day.

2) Introducing solid foods. When you introduce solids you are supposed to wait 3 days to a week between new foods for allergies. I find it best to always feed them the same new food at the same time. Unless you are the kind of person who is going to write everything down, I am not. This way if there is a reaction you don't have to try to remember who had peas and who had green beans. If they both had green beans on Thursday - no problem! I feel them both the same thing at the same time. Lucky for me they have the same taste!

3) Feeding. I didn't breast feed. It didn't work out for us - no big deal. In order to bottle feed two babies at the same time I had to prop somebody's bottle up. I alternate who got held and who's bottle got propped up. Sometimes they both got their bottles propped up so I could get somethings done. They didn't seem to care, but I felt better and got to spend a few minutes with each one of them.

I'm sure there is more... but that is all I can think of for now. Don't pet the sweaty stuff and don't sweat the peaty stuff. It's not a big deal. They survive and so do the moms.