It’s time to go home. Sitting on the edge of your hospital bed you cling steadfastly to the bedside table as two nurses prise your fingers free. Offering words of encouragement, they try to gently ease you back into the real world. Not the world where you packed up and headed away for the weekend … Continue reading Raising Twins – Months 1-3
Raising Twins – Months 3-6
The chubby baby smiles are coming thick and fast, but unfortunately the lack of sleep is reaching epic proportions. It not uncommon for the missing cornflake packet to be found in the walk-in-robe and to find yourself washing your hair with the foaming facial cleanser. Everyone said, ‘At three months it will be fine. Just … Continue reading Raising Twins – Months 3-6
Raising Twins – Months 6-9
Well you finally have this bottle feeding thing down to a fine art. Now it’s time for solids. Smacking your lips in encouragement and making yummy noises you begin the unenviable task of spoon feeding rice cereal to two infants at once. You balance two plates in one hand and alternate spoons. One baby promptly … Continue reading Raising Twins – Months 6-9
Raising Twins – Months 9-12
Sanity is starting to prevail in your home. You even find time for a fortnightly physiotherapy appointment to mend the back that is now lifting two hefty babies on a daily basis. Who would have thought that your two premmies would end up the Goliaths of your mothers’ group? Between bouts of “he stole my … Continue reading Raising Twins – Months 9-12
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