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Early Months with Twins
What to Expect and Tips to Survive the First Weeks with Multiples
By Kim Seidel
Scalise created several sleeping and feeding stations in their multiple-level home. This helped them to keep the babies apart. This was especially helpful when one baby was crying and the other was still sleeping. It also helped to keep noise away from the older child's room at night and gave them freedom to move about without worrying about waking the babies.
Basically, this meant that the family had two cribs in the babies' rooms upstairs, plus two bassinets in their living room. At times, they also used the babies' car seats for naps, depending on where they were in the house.
The Scalises expanded the practicality of multiple sleep areas by creating multiple feeding and changing stations. "We tried to keep bottles of formula, pillows and other things that would aid breastfeeding and diapers and wipes on each level of the house, close to the sleeping stations," she says. "This gave us easy access to any supplies we might need in case one or more babies woke up. It was like having fully-stocked, free-standing, twin-friendly spaces all around our house. It was great if both babies needed to be changed at the same time too. One parent could use the changing station in the babies' room and the other could use the one downstairs."
In spite of the challenges of caring for baby twins, this time will go quickly. "Remember it is but a small moment," Yrungaray says. "Those first six months felt like the longest six months of my life. But it got so much better once they slept through the night. Now, two years later, it doesn't seem like it was all that bad."
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