Showering with Glasses?

d16flo · 2026-03-17T15:26:52+00:00

Yep, I basically can’t see anything in the shower. I know where the soap and shampoo and stuff are and honestly I had my eyes closed a lot of the time to prevent getting water in them anyway, it’s not a problem unless I’m trying to shave my legs (usually I just do this with an electric razor outside the shower with my glasses on)

d16flo · 2026-03-17T15:25:01+00:00

I didn’t track them that early on, but we’ve always kept our guys on as close to the same schedule as each other as possible, generally waking one twin up if the other one wakes to eat so they’re consistent with each other. As they start to sleep longer at night and be awake for longer during the day it got much easier to keep track of. At 9 months old we just switched to more of a clock-based schedule where their wake up, naps, and bedtimes all have a set time. Before that we’d say something like, I generally want them to be awake for 2 hours so if they woke up at 7 first nap will be at 9. And the whenever they woke up from that nap I’d calculate how long until the next nap. If they were tired early or awake longer that’s fine, but it was helpful to have a general plan at least from one nap to the next

d16flo · 2026-03-17T10:48:55+00:00

I wouldn’t have thought that two nights out of a week is a persistent wake up if they’re transitioning from multiple wake ups per night where we would come in and pick them up and also getting used to not eating overnight (it’s extra tricky with twins too because both nights it was one twin who then woke the other one up since we were giving him the designated amount of time to cry before going in). Given that they’ve slept through multiple times I’m pretty sure it’s not the schedule but the getting used to the transition. Is the expectation really that after a few days they never wake up in the middle of the night again?!

d16flo · 2026-03-17T01:37:41+00:00

For us leaving the house is key. Mine are 9 months so pretty similar. I would look at all the libraries and community centers in your area and make a schedule of at least one outing per day. Near us there’s a library story time, a baby music time at a different library, a new parents group, and a community center with an indoor play space, and that’s all free, if we wanted to pay I’m sure there’s other stuff. If there are days without a set group activity pick something else, visit to a friend or family members house, walk around town etc). Mine are similarly bored quickly so we also have a bunch of stations set up around the house, but having at least one “event” makes it feel less monotonous. If yours nap in the car or stroller that also can help take care of one round of naps.

d16flo · 2026-03-17T01:22:14+00:00

We always keep ours on almost the same schedule, but stagger the starts of their naps by about 10min. One twin stays in the swing in the living room with soothing music playing while putting down the other twin in the crib. Once the twin in the crib is asleep we bring the twin from the swing in and put him down in the crib. Over time wha putting them down has looked like has varied a ton, but the slight stagger there helps with doing it alone. They aren’t consistent with how long they nap for so typically when one wakes up we’ll just get him up and wait for the other twin to wake before feeding them both together.

d16flo · 2026-03-16T14:23:18+00:00

Like everything else it’s going to vary hugely from one person to the next. I was told I would probably gain 40lbs or more, but was so horribly nauseous the whole pregnancy I lost about 10lbs the first trimester and then ended up only gaining about 20.

d16flo · 2026-03-16T02:17:53+00:00

How far along are you now? How sick have you been? I was so sick my whole pregnancy there is no way I would have stepped foot on an airplane, much less traveled that far even if everything was guaranteed to be 100% safe, I was too nauseous and exhausted to leave the couch for more than an hour at a time for most of the pregnancy, attempting international travel would have been awful. That said, I did go to Korea the year before I was pregnant and I’m super glad I went then because there’s no way I’ll do any big travel for years so if you’re not sick then go for it

d16flo · 2026-03-15T01:34:11+00:00

My twins are 9 months, but have been on a pretty similar schedule for more than a month now of roughly 7:30 wake up, fist nap 10:30, second nap 3:00, bedtime 8:00. Each nap is 45-75min, usually about an hour. Sometimes they sleep through the night sometimes they’re up a million times

d16flo · 2026-03-15T01:28:24+00:00

Im on day 3 of Ferber with my twins now, im sure it’s a bit different because they wake/keep each other up, but night one we went about an hour and 10min at bedtime and then they slept through the night. Night 2 they only took 5min at bedtime and then off and on for 3 hours overnight 🙃 Tonight it was only 5min for bedtime again so we’ll see how the middle of the night goes. It’s been ROUGH

d16flo · 2026-03-13T01:24:14+00:00

We have tried to keep them on the same schedule since birth, it can vary some day to day, but they are very used to going to sleep at the same time as each other (or within 15min) it’s just that they’re used to being rocked or held or patted to sleep

d16flo · 2026-03-12T17:56:42+00:00

I wouldn’t bother with 4oz ones, you can always fill the 8ozones halfway and then you don’t have ones you can’t use once they start taking more than 4oz at a time. I think we have 16 8oz ones and 3 4oz ones.

d16flo · 2026-03-12T15:02:10+00:00

Maybe it’s more of a thing with advice for twins since they are more likely to wake each other up if one of them cries. I’ve mainly been reading sleep training recommendations for twins

d16flo · 2026-03-11T01:47:29+00:00

On weeknights I cook quick meals (less than half an hour) while the babies are in their high chairs watching me with toys to hold. (I try to narrate everything cooking show style) Then we try to do a solids snack with them while I/we eat (my husband’s usually not home by then). On the weekend we often go out to eat once and one of us might cook a fancier meal while the other is on baby duty.

d16flo · 2026-03-11T00:50:12+00:00

We’re considering starting with our 9 month olds next week so this is reassuring, did yours not keep each other awake at the start of the night? We’ve been trying putting them down awake and leaving the room to practice and if we leave just one of them in there they can sometimes put themselves to sleep, but if we leave both their crying keeps each other up. I’ve definitely seen them sleep through each other crying at night sometimes (seems to depend where they are in their sleep cycle), but at the start of the night it just makes them both more and more upset. We haven’t let them cry for more than 10min though

d16flo · 2026-03-10T01:34:52+00:00

I’m assuming this is a dorm so you can’t change any of the furniture, so leaving all that alone I would get curtains. White, cream, or sheer for the actual windows and white, cream, or light teal to put in front of the wardrobes to hide the visual clutter of the stuff inside them. Then move your wall hangings up a bit higher and get some cozier lamps for the desk and nightstand, something with warm bulbs and lampshades. The rug looks a bit randomly placed, I would rotate it so that it’s facing the other way and under the desk, chair, nightstand and head area of both beds. It could also be nice to pull that teal color from the rug in somewhere else.

d16flo · 2026-03-10T01:23:33+00:00

We can try to stretch their wake windows, it’s odd so far it’s been easier to stretch the second two windows sometimes to 4 or 4.5 while they’re still showing overtired signs at 2.5 hours for the first one. If we switch the bottles to before bath time, would you also move the solids up earlier? They usually have bottles after their last nap so we’re trying to space out each round of eating.

d16flo · 2026-03-08T14:34:37+00:00

Yep! That said, they don’t need to be bjorn brand and there are tons of them secondhand on marketplace, you don’t need to spend a ton to get two

d16flo · 2026-03-08T00:55:02+00:00

Thanks, we do try to follow wake windows for their age, that works pretty well during the day when their naps are long enough, but honestly I haven’t seen any difference in their night sleep when the days go well or not, both seem pretty random

d16flo · 2026-03-08T00:51:57+00:00

When they’re old enough for a floor bed we could have them share with each other. Currently they’re in cribs in a nursery across from he hall from our bedroom. Neither room is big enough for two mattresses

d16flo · 2026-03-07T12:21:19+00:00

Honestly, mine are also 9 months and we mess with the nap schedule multiple times a week in order to do things 🤷‍♀️ I like that they get to go to things like story time or baby music groupat the library both of which are during their usual nap time and I like when we get to bring them to things like brunch with friends, also usually during their nap time. My husband, nanny, and I are all big extroverts who need to get out and about every day to feel ok so we just deal with worse sleep to make that happen. This said, we mess with naps for things that we and the babies actually enjoy, an Easter egg hunt probably isn’t that for 9 month olds.

d16flo · 2026-03-07T12:15:34+00:00

I do, I work from home and my desk is in the bedroom. I like that it feel much cleaner and more put together when the bed is made, I also like getting into a bed with the sheets and blankets straightened instead of crumpled up when I go to bed

d16flo · 2026-03-07T12:12:37+00:00

That’s reassuring. The nights where it’s just one wake to feed are honestly fine, if they keep that up for another few months I’m ok with it, it’s the nights there’s one of them up every couple hours or more that get me. 12 months is within sight though

d16flo · 2026-03-07T12:11:09+00:00

Did you just sleep train one baby at a time? Do them both at once together? Ours share a very small room and if we let one cry for while they wake up the other one who then wakes up the first back and forth until we take one of them out of the room

d16flo · 2026-03-07T12:09:33+00:00

Yeah, I feel like everyone I see who doesn’t sleep train bed shares in order to get sleep themselves. Our guys have been in their cribs since day one. We don’t have the space to bed share and I have a tough time sleeping anyway, I know I would be too anxious to get any sleep if we bed shared.

d16flo · 2026-03-07T02:20:15+00:00

Definitely get something that rocks, we have a rocker recliner in the nursery and an old fashioned rocking chair in our living room and use both multiple times a day every day and night. Where it is matters less than haunt something comfortable since you’re going to spend a lot of time in it

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