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Early Months with Twins
What to Expect and Tips to Survive the First Weeks with Multiples
By Kim Seidel
Find friends in your community as well. Moms of multiples often recommend joining a support group. "These amazing women have 'been there' and provide support, guidance and understanding," Cherry says.
Angela Drinkwater, mother of identical twins who are now 10 in Greenport, N.Y., says using lightweight bouncer chairs and glider seats helped her safely move the babies from room to room. This made feeding and playing times go more smoothly.
When Drinkwater cared for the twins alone, she set up bouncer chairs in the room she was planning to take the babies. "I would scoop them both up and then place them down in the bouncer chairs in the other room, and move them individually from there," she says. "The bouncer chairs gave me that feeling of having an extra arm to safely put them both down in another spot and then move them both within a room. I never needed to leave one of them unattended in a room."
Drinkwater found she used glider seats for most of her mornings with the twins. The seats allowed her to interact with both boys and helped her to feed them.
From the glider seats, she would move them to their cribs or into the double corral area, set up in their living room. This was especially helpful when they started crawling separately to keep them in a safe area, free from smal objects they could place in their mouths and away from the stairs and television set.
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