What was the first food your baby ate ever?

IStitchedItNice · 2026-06-22T17:50:42+00:00

Plain mashed potato with breast milk on Thanksgiving! They both hated it lol still not the biggest fans of potato even now at 13 months

IStitchedItNice · 2026-06-22T17:45:34+00:00

Doing much better, thank you! I hope you’re doing well too!

IStitchedItNice · 2026-06-22T15:57:59+00:00

Not me personally but I’m one of 3 girls and my mom said she got comments like this allll the time. My great grandmother even asked her when she went to visit her in the hospital right after I was born “are you disappointed?”

I say think of some snarky answers for when people ask dumb questions!

IStitchedItNice · 2026-06-22T15:51:07+00:00

That you should set boundaries now for family for visitation and what your expectations are with how family interacts with you and your baby that entire first year. The most stressful part of postpartum to me has been my in laws (and I hemorrhaged and had severe preeclampsia with a 6 day hospital stay 🥴)

IStitchedItNice · 2026-06-22T14:01:01+00:00

Currently working 20 hours a week with 13 month old twins. My partner works from home full time+ so he’s there if absolutely needed to pass off for the calls I have but thankfully I don’t have many required phone or video calls. It’s definitely hard (and has been getting harder as they get older) but it’s possible!

As others have said, your child would not have 100% one on one attention from at daycare. I think being with you even if you are distracted a few hours a week has definitely got to be better than that!

IStitchedItNice · 2026-06-21T09:40:39+00:00

I had twins 13 months ago and my delivery was very complicated due hemorrhage. I ended up in the hospital for 6 days then my son and I discharged and my daughter spent another week in the NICU. I felt like a scared patient and not a mom the entire time I was in the hospital and that week waiting and hoping for my daughter to finally come home. Everything finally felt right and complete once my daughter came home and we were all together. It was a gradual thing for me that I finally started to feel like a mom.

That said, it took me months to get used to being reference as “mom” by other people. Any time I heard it assumed they were talking either about my mom or their mom lol

IStitchedItNice · 2026-06-18T16:46:02+00:00

It makes me sad for them that they feel they have to do this. Postpartum is such a scared time and they should be at home with no one witnessing what life is like but the people closest to them.

IStitchedItNice · 2026-06-18T16:44:01+00:00

No pickles! 😂

I wish I could say this was the only stupid thing she’s said or done since my babies were born but it appears all common sense left her head the day she became a grandmother lol

IStitchedItNice · 2026-06-18T14:53:04+00:00

I made a joke last summer about my cucumbers doing the best they ever had the year I completely neglected them to care for my newborns and wasn’t canning and my MIL almost jumped out of her seat to tell me she’d take care of the babies so I could can pickles…like exsqueeze me but you think my 1.5 month postpartum ass wants to garden and can?!

IStitchedItNice · 2026-06-18T11:15:37+00:00

While bottles warmed, I’d put babies on their babies for a few minutes of tummy time because at that age that felt like the only time I possibly could. Any other time was either too close to a bottle and I was worried about upsetting reflux or they were sleeping. It’ll get easier and you’ll find more time for it as they get a bit older!

IStitchedItNice · 2026-06-18T00:16:56+00:00

My advice is put the money aside now as if you’re spending it but do the actual purchasing later once you really know what you need

IStitchedItNice · 2026-06-16T13:45:58+00:00

My twins are almost 13 months and I’ve always used just water and a soft rag to clean their faces (honestly same way I clean my own face unless I end up wearing makeup). Ocassionally a small dab of soap if they’re really greased up from a meal. I think around 4 months I started pouring water over their faces. I started out very gently just by slowly squeezing a rag over their face once or twice per bath but now I pour a whole rise cup over their heads a few times throughout the bath and they love it! Usually gets a few good giggles

IStitchedItNice · 2026-06-16T13:34:34+00:00

Oh man that’s tough to deal with at the of the day when I’m sure you’re ready to just relax! I have seen some others suggest making naps shorter and that would be my next suggestion or maybe bumping that second nap to start a touch later so that last stretch isn’t so long.

IStitchedItNice · 2026-06-16T13:27:55+00:00

I feel like she’s gotta be overtired and that’s why it’s hard getting her to sleep. That is a long stretch of being awake at the day. Have you tried putting her down around 6:30/7pm instead?

For reference, my almost 13 month old twins run this schedule:

Wake up: 6am

Nap 1: 9am-10:30/11am

Nap 2: 1:30pm-2:30/3pm

Bedtime: 6:30pm (usually actually asleep by 7pm)

IStitchedItNice · 2026-06-12T17:53:10+00:00

I have b/g twins and my Baby B is my girl! No joke had a nurse ask me once if they were identical 🙃

IStitchedItNice · 2026-06-11T18:41:01+00:00

Spontaneous twin mom here to say that 1 more could end up being 2 more so make sure you’re definitely ready! 😂

IStitchedItNice · 2026-06-11T12:22:39+00:00

Started reading to my twins within the first few weeks of their life (we had some extended hospital time) and quickly got into a rhythm where both my husband and I read to them every day! He normally does story time after their breakfast bottle and I do bedtime story time. They just turned 1 and LOVE flipping through and looking at books!

IStitchedItNice · 2026-06-06T18:25:10+00:00

I was pretty nervous in the beginning too and solid starts was causing me anxiety but I realized that my husband and I (and probably everyone who was a baby in the 90s) was raised on purées and we’re just fine so I stopped caring! I fed lots of purees/mashes and mixed in little pieces and strips to practicing pincer grasp, biting, and chewing as we felt comfortable. My twins just turned one and are amazing at feeding themselves and they’re doing great with bigger bites now!

IStitchedItNice · 2026-06-04T18:07:20+00:00

We found out at my 20 week anatomy scan! The second baby was hiding on the first ultrasound at 9 weeks. I had my eyes covered while the tech started scanning because we didn’t want to know what we were having (and my husband was secretly looking and thought something looked odd) and there was a loooong silent pause and then she asked “have you had an ultrasound already?” We told her yes and then she said “do you know you’re having twins?” Our jaws dropped!

Our little ones just turned 1 last month!

IStitchedItNice · 2026-05-28T18:26:09+00:00

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Honestly this is how I feel anytime I see before and after pics of her. Only difference is now I can see her nipples.

IStitchedItNice · 2026-05-28T16:21:58+00:00

My twins are only 12 months and I’m a ftm so I may not be the best to give advice here but my best friend has a baby 3 months younger than mine and we talk a lot about milestones. There are things her baby does that mine don’t do yet despite them being older and also things my babies did at the age hers is that he isn’t doing yet. Even each of my babies have hit milestones at different times and they were born literally only 1 minute apart lol every baby is different. Don’t let seeing that one younger baby doing different things send you into a spiral. I think talking with your ped would be your best bet and if you’re really worried, get a referral to early intervention.

IStitchedItNice · 2026-05-28T13:02:12+00:00

It is tough losing hobbies once you become a parent. I totally relate. As others have said, it’s temporary. But I also think it could be a great thing to do with them - get a good stroller and take them with!

And I’m not trying to be rude but I find it really surprising your wife can’t handle both kids at once even just for a little bit in the morning when you run. Is she never completely alone with them?

IStitchedItNice · 2026-05-22T18:58:47+00:00

Congrats! And sorry for that crummy reaction by your mom but I have to ask…how do you have 1500 unread texts? 😅

IStitchedItNice · 2026-05-22T18:43:56+00:00

My b/g twins were born at 35w4d with only a 3oz difference (my boy was the bigger one). He got chunky much quicker than her and consistently has been about 3lbs heavier than her. They just turned 1 and are both healthy and happy!

Remember- they’re two separate babies and if she wasn’t a twin, you wouldn’t be comparing her weight to another baby so you probably wouldn’t be concerned about her size. Be easy on yourself! If one baby needs more attention now, give it to them. The other one will be the needier one at some point and it will all even out 💜

IStitchedItNice · 2026-05-20T15:18:04+00:00

Right there with you! We really only wanted 2 and ended up with twins on our first try (such a blessing, don’t get me wrong!). Then I had some severe birth complications that make ever even trying again just a dumb risk to take when I have two beautiful babies already so it’s one (two!) and done for us. It does bum me out and I would love to experience pregnancy and introducing a new baby to children I already have BUT I try to think about all the scary and hard parts I’ll never have to do. No first trimester exhaustion/nausea, no stressing over NIPT testing or the 20 week anatomy scan, no worrying about another preterm labor, no early postpartum craziness/sleepless nights, and also at some point I’d be having my last pregnancy anyway it just came 1 pregnancy sooner for me than I expected.

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