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Lessen Your Impact
3 Ways to Reduce Waste & Embrace Sustainability When You Have Newborn Twins
Earth. The third planet from the sun. The place we call home. With a projected population of about 8.2 billion people for 2025, the United Nations predicts the global population will reach 9 billion in 2037 and 10 billion in 2058. In 1970, when the first Earth Day took place, the estimated world population was approximately 3.68 billion people. Our planet's population is ever-growing...
Lock it Down
Childproofing Your Home? These 10 Things Will Help Keep Your Kids Safe
When you first bring your twin newborns home, you'll be busy with the chaotic schedule of double feeds, double changes, and double bedtime routines. It's a rough stage that will introduce you to true exhaustion you never knew existed. But, you get through it after four or five months. Then, things suddenly get easy. You can sit back a bit, breathe a sigh of relief, and enjoy this...
Feed Me Now!
Double the Bottles, Half the Wait: These 3 Dual Bottle Warmers are Great
If you've ever suddenly been hit by a pang of hunger and then realized you need food NOW, you're familiar with how your newborn twins are feeling when they're trying to communicate to you that they're ready for their next feeding. Except that they can't talk yet, so they communicate in the only way they know how—by screaming at their caregivers at the top of their lungs until they get...
Load ’Er Up
The Best Foldable Utility Wagons for Carting Your Kids Around
Anyone who has kids knows the colossal amount of crap you need to take with you whenever you leave the house for more than 45 minutes requires a few extra hands. When you have multiple babies, it's an incredible undertaking to pack up all the gear you'll need for an outing, so anything that can make your efforts worthwhile could be worth its weight in gold. If you're lacking in extra...
Get Groovin’
Crank Up Your Littles’ Love of Music with This Rockin’ Record Player
If your kids are musically inclined, you may want to bridge their love of toys and tunes. The Fisher-Price Rockin' Record Player can give your toddlers some hands-on time to harmonize their gross motor skills, their attention and listening skills, and their independence. Play and development go hand-in-hand. This fun, retro-style toy fosters growth, learning, and self-regulation...
You Can Do It
These 15 Tips Will Make Traveling with Your Twin Toddlers a Breeze
If the idea of traveling with your twin toddlers makes your stomach turn to ice, you're probably not alone. The logistics that are involved are incredible, and the thought of tackling it all can be enough to deter you from moving beyond the, "You know what'd be nice?" stage, completely preventing you from ever getting to the planning stage, where you can actually get excited about what...
Self-Care
Postpartum Recovery: Items to Help You Heal After Delivering Your Babies
If you're a Type A, organized person, you probably love having a plan in place. I'm of the same mindset. As a parent of twins, next-level organization is key to keeping everything running as smoothly as it can in your household. But sometimes, having a plan can be futile. Take birth plans, for example. It's nice to have a wishlist of how you hope things go, but sometimes, things...
Sleep Tight
Love Sleep? This Double Bassinet is Essential for Families with Twins
When it comes to newborn babies, one of the things that's top-of-mind for parents is ensuring their little ones have a safe sleep. What exactly that safe sleep space looks like may differ from household to household. Some people prefer having a separate bassinet for each twin in the early days, when you have them sleeping in the room beside you. Others like the idea of having a...
Heavy Load
A Huge Weight Lifted: 3 Things to Help Carry Your Growing Pregnancy Belly
When you get pregnant, you often wonder when you're going to start showing. Maybe it's because you're excited to show off your baby bump and you can't wait until it makes an appearance. Or maybe it's because you're hoping to keep your impending parenthood a secret from, say, your workplace until you're further along. Whatever your reason, every pregnancy—and its corresponding...
A Little Lesion
Your Baby Might Have This Bump on Their Heel if They Spent Time in the NICU
If you welcomed twins into your family within the last year, you're likely soaking up all the sweetness that comes with having newborn babies in your midst. (Yes, there ARE sleepless nights and endless cycles of feedings and changings, but let's not delve into that here…but if you ARE in the throes of the newborn stage with your twins, feel free to check out our advice for getting...
Downloading
3 Apps Every Parent Should Install Right Now!
Screen time has been a thing since the days of tube TVs in the family room. However, with more tablets and smartphones in homes than ever before, screen time becomes an unavoidable part of parenthood. How much time you choose to give your kids is an important decision to make, and equally important is what kinds of things will be on those screens.
Bright-Eyed and Bushy-Tailed
These Massage Techniques Can Improve Your Babies’ Sleep
Getting consistent, quality sleep is crucial to a person's overall health and well-being. Prioritizing sleep, improving sleep habits, and embracing healthy sleep practices can have a significant impact on one's physical and mental health. Sleep hygiene, or the healthy sleep habits that promote restful sleep, can pave the way to waking up bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. When you have...
Now Boarding
Traveling with Twin Toddlers? Here’s Everything You’ll Need to Pack
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Traveling with twin toddlers can seem like a daunting idea. Initially, it sounds like fun. Then, slowly, it starts to feel scary. Traveling by air with those same twin toddlers can seem like a much more daunting idea. The logistics or lists of what you'll need might even be enough to turn you off of the idea until they're old enough to be "self-sufficient" and help with at least...
Beachbound
Tiny Toes, Big Adventures: Reef Little Ahi Flip Flops Are Made for Minis
Anyone who has a toddler knows how treacherous the journey can sometimes be. They'll be walking along proud as punch and then they'll get distracted by something and lose their footing, and you'll be glad you were holding their hand to prevent them from tumbling and scraping their knee. Throwing new shoes into the mix can certainly make things interesting. Especially flip flops, and...
Snap To It
Five Reasons Why Snap-Closure Bibs Are the Way to Go
Before having twins, I thought all drool bibs were one and the same. A bib's a bib's a bib. And, then, I became a twin mom and tackled the tremendous, teetering loads of laundry that come with having two tottering, teething babies at the same time, and I've come to realize, that just isn't true. I can now say with confidence—and warn other parents of multiples—that bibs with a snap...