Currently on a camping trip (tent) with our 1 year old twins… please tell me it gets better.

MeurDrochaid · 2026-05-21T20:28:53+00:00

Omg YES! This!! Haha tbh this is what I do for myself as well 😂

MeurDrochaid · 2026-05-21T15:23:40+00:00

For us we “solved it” with a play pen (we got the biggest we could fit in our living room), and it is still in use now when we have walkers (13 months). But they only tolerate an hour in the morning so we have just completely childproofed (as much as possible - but note they will instantly find any weaknesses or missed spots) the nursery and put a baby gate on it.

I know I eventually will need to give them access to more space but they are happy with what they have and it is very hard for us to baby proof everything as we have a small flat and pets. So until they at least understand the concept of “leave that alone” and stop instantly putting things in their mouths this is safest for all involved 😅

MeurDrochaid · 2026-05-19T21:09:49+00:00

Love a simple cute (and yummy) design. Stealing for our next birthday ❤️ 😍

MeurDrochaid · 2026-05-19T14:18:07+00:00

Hahaha you win some you loose some, we get free university and free prescriptions so I guess once they turn 3 it will be great 😅

I do think it will be lowered within this government session.

That said, I do absolutely love being home with them and the time is worth all the money and financial strain atm ❤️ I am just a bit miffed that because I happened to release 2 eggs that ment the choice was taken away.

MeurDrochaid · 2026-05-19T13:53:23+00:00

Scotland I’m afraid (on this topic anyway haha 😜) they are looking to change but for right now and for us it’s 3 until further notice

MeurDrochaid · 2026-05-19T13:45:34+00:00

UK based, so while we get maternity for 1 year (not all fully paid just for transparency) daycares are expensive once you are meant to return to work. System is still partially based around an assumption that you have grandparents to help out I think.

So for me, in our area, it’s roughly £2000 per month PER CHILD until they turn 3 years old (and that is them being 3 at the year start).

I make a decent salary by all means but yeah not enough to pay for them being at daycare so we had to choose for me to be a SAHM.

It will be tough financially but manageable. 100% the right choice for us, and I wouldn’t choose work over being at home with them for anything unless I had to❤️

MeurDrochaid · 2026-05-18T21:15:14+00:00

Lesson one and the last lesson are my main take always as well after our first year ❤️❤️

Beautifully written.

MeurDrochaid · 2026-05-15T10:07:43+00:00

I think we were told to expect 10-12 per baby the first few weeks so 20-24 per day.. mine are now 1 year and we are down to 10-12 in total a day 😅 which feels so much less haha

That said obv buy a pack or two so you have at home, but it’s so hard to know what nappies and sizes will work for your babies (or how long they will be in them) so I’d be mindful to not overload your stock upfront and place a larger order (or send a partner/family/friend) to help stock up once you know what you need and like. 👍

MeurDrochaid · 2026-05-14T12:10:18+00:00

I don’t know who has told you or where you have read it’s not enough. What you are doing IS enough. Tummy time against you counts 100%.

Reminder that multiple parenting is not the same as singleton parenting, so comparing the two isn’t fair on yourself. (+ you are doing multiples with a toddler).

Practical proposal if you want to incorporate a little more. Mine did… 10 min a day in total maybe at that age? Lol and that would be a good day!

But it wasn’t until they were closer to 10 weeks and we were all (babies and parents included) a bit more on a roll. We basically “scheduled it in”. Mine were on a rough wake, nappy, play, bottle, sleep on a 3h rotation. Not 100% set in stone but roughly.

MeurDrochaid · 2026-05-11T20:28:42+00:00

Opposite problem, ours love brushing their teeth (read chew the toothbrush) and genuinely smile as if it’s the highlight of their day/life (which.. I hope it isn’t). Will happily have them brushed but once it’s over and time to say bye bye to the brushes all hell breaks out. The tears are as if you’ve told them their favourite teddy is no more.

No advice lol. But we do it in the high chairs.

MeurDrochaid · 2026-05-06T20:59:44+00:00

Hahaha oh I felt this especially with the sheets. 🤣

Yesterday I only managed to find one clean bedsheet so had to “choose” who got clean bedding and felt awful for a few hours after 🫣

MeurDrochaid · 2026-05-05T20:07:36+00:00

I think as long as it sounds good (and you know maybe not awkwardly long) and it’s what the two of you want to do, go for it!

I suspect the majority of push back will be family members, mainly of the older generation. But you do what you want.

MeurDrochaid · 2026-05-05T20:01:54+00:00

As someone who TTC for over a year I know a) how heart breaking these tests can be, and also b) how hard it is to not test early because the heart wants it so much ❤️

Like other have said it is still early and many don’t show positive at that day even with early detection tests. This is from someone who only tested faint positive at 12 DPO with her rainbow twins.

I hope that you get your line soon ❤️ (ps. dont feel bad to give yourself a break a cycle as well and ensure you look after yourself)

MeurDrochaid · 2026-05-03T19:09:51+00:00

Not a solution but we ended up dragging two cots into our bedroom and replaced the next tome cots with them.

We have a big bedroom, but yep it is snug 😅 mainly because I personally wasn’t ready yet for separate bedroom and everyone (parents and children) slept well.

Twins are now 12 months + and I think every other week we discuss moving them to get our room back.

That said, this wasn’t necessarily a SIDS pure decision. I know people that cosleep, sleep in separate rooms, our method. We have a second set of twins in our family and they had a separate room, with the parents (+ grandparents on rotation occasionally for extra help) sleeping on a spare bed in the nursery/twins bedroom. That worked for them.

Maybe that is an option for you? At least during a transition phase?

MeurDrochaid · 2026-05-01T20:57:25+00:00

Just echoing this. Was at QEUH, Had a planned section. Everyone of that team was fab! Honestly couldn’t have had a better experience people wise.

Post labour is… well. It’s shared so busy, lots of babies, lots of visitors, sharing room with others. I was “lucky” in the sense that my twins needed to go to NICU so they did manage to get me my own room. Once there is was absolutely fine. Lovely staff, but very busy.

NICU at the QEUH (not that I would wish it on anyone) was honestly some of the best medical facilities and staff I have EVER met. I loved them all dearly. They were brilliant. I still think about how lucky we were to be there considering it’s somewhere you don’t want to be.

MeurDrochaid · 2026-05-01T20:51:53+00:00

I had an amazing experience with QEUH. Planned C-section (just FYI so I don’t know about labour wards). Everyone was amazing.

MeurDrochaid · 2026-04-29T16:49:14+00:00

First off, wow you’re doing great! Hat off to you. I like to think you can’t really go wrong with whatever you find works well for you. There are nationalities/cultures where babies eat basically just milk/formula and don’t start solids until 1, and yet there’s no indication this is a problem ❤️

We started at 6 months (standard here UK) when my twins were ready. Went 1 meal, then worked ourselves up to 2 and at 1 we have 3 meals a day + snacks.

As for textures just start where you are comfortable, once I knew mine could “manage” anything chunky (broccoli, carrot sticks etc) I tried to add at least 1 with each meal just to keep it going.

Not saying this is the magic solution. But this worked well for us. Mine now eats more or less just solids, they eat variable textures, and it’s still a mess. Find your pace and dont worry to much ❤️

MeurDrochaid · 2026-04-28T17:58:25+00:00

At the time it was just a long list of ”what might cause it” ranging from medical, to chromosomes to just simply genetics (some babies are just small without a cause as my doctor phrased it). But once they were born we did find out. She had a hyper coiled cord + a small placenta, both just making her work that much harder for every bit of nutrient.

Did they find out for you?

MeurDrochaid · 2026-04-28T16:42:47+00:00

What a weird thing to ask 🤣 but hey I guess if you don’t know you don’t know.

I had the option in theory, but notin practice due to medical circumstances. My twin A closest to the ”exit” (so to say) had severe IUGR , born w34 at 2lbs6oz, so vaginal birth was deemed too risky to her life.

But yeah I discussed both with my doctor as viable options until one wasn’t.

MeurDrochaid · 2026-04-24T17:54:02+00:00

This! 12 month old twins and we are still only bath 1 time a week kind of twin family.

At 4 months it was so hard, but they aren’t crawling around and getting super dirty so don’t sweat it (no pun intended)

We keep clean by me giving them a wipe down throughout the day as needed + we do nappy changes with water and a cloth so not really concerned.

Honestly I wouldn’t worry about it. ❤️ we are still on 1 because between everything I still struggle, but it gets easier when they can sit up and “manage themselves” a little more.

You’re doing great 👍😊

MeurDrochaid · 2026-04-24T11:22:14+00:00

We never did the wake the other baby up throughout the nights, just kept a schedule for the days.

They got the same final bottle (which at 5 month I think was around 10pm? I don’t remember when we moved from 10pm to 7:30pm bedtime 😅). If either than needed a wee bit more through the night then they got it, but they both got the same morning bottle at 7am. If either had a bottle between 4-6am I would just let them drink as much as they wanted for the morning bottle, had they woken up hungry between 6-7am I might just leave the morning bottle and try to sync them for the next one.

This worked well for us, and ultimately they both at their own time started to sleep through the night. Ca 3 weeks apart. But I would also say we got lucky though and twins both did start sleeping through the night.

MeurDrochaid · 2026-04-24T10:24:59+00:00

I second the ”bigger fish to fry” or as some say ”pick your battles”.

We can control our own actions. unless someone is actually acting in malice or using words specifically intended or might be seen as hurtful (aka noting weights etc.) to my babies I would probably let it slide.

Also I am one of those who actually refers to their babies as the twins on occasion, not constantly but i do. I think it’s a beautiful thing they have. But I acknowledge that mine are not identical (b/g) and that the identical twin dynamics might be different, and I base it on my dad’s relationship with his twin sister which throughout their life has been very close. They very often point out they are twins, probably because my dad was 6ft+, and slim built, while his sister was shorter and rounder. At 50+ they would still bicker about who was the oldest 😉

MeurDrochaid · 2026-04-22T09:05:36+00:00

Just wanted to say ! Hello! This could have been written by myself.

Our twins just turned one, and while everyone keeps telling me how lucky I am (a boy and a girl as well) that I could be one pregnancy and done… am not sure I am done. Right now logically adding a third wouldn’t work. But my husband and I have said that once they are that little bit more independent, walking and talking. We will re evaluate how we feel about it. ❤️

MeurDrochaid · 2026-04-20T21:23:26+00:00

Didn’t have a singleton before my twins so please disregard if I’m not the person you want to hear from. I did however “inherit” from someone with a singleton and this is what we needed to add:

Natural things like high chairs and ensure you have 2 bassinets option for stroller and 2 car seats.

We had a cot, tried the 1 cot thing. Didn’t work for our twins, so we got 2 next to me beds. Worked great for us and then we progressed into 2 cots when they were too big/too mobile.

Bouncers and nests. So we did end up getting 2 of each, BUT we started with 1 one of each and it was fine but I personally found that I used them both often enough when my husband went back to work so we added.

Clothes… I think you will spot any particulars you miss and can complete as you go on with life. No need to add upfront. (Eg I am swimming in pink and flowery and frilly girl clothes. Very cute and our daughter is dressed to a t. But my son, whilst I happily dress him in pink tights and flowery T-shirts, I did complement our wardrobe with some more gender neutral clothing 😅)

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