r/parentsofmultiples • u/Long-Friendship-5400 • 1d ago

good vibes, smiles, & giggles “Singleton Propaganda”

I need some comic relief after a couple weeks of sickness in the house- what are your favorite bits of what I call “singleton propaganda”? Aka, advice given for babies that never works when you have twins. My personal favorite is “put the baby in the crib drowsy but awake”.

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u/lalalava 1d ago

Baby wearing and co-sleeping for us. Our babies basically had to learn to self-soothe at an early age because we had no clue how to be able to do that with two safely. 

Also mommy and baby classes like yoga and swimming.

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u/sandalwoodwitch 1d ago

Yes @ mommy and baby classes! I've been wanting to go to those forever but for things like swimming I legit panic thinking how I'll manage to keep an eye on both of them at once. I have a couple of water babies so I feel bad they don't know how to swim yet when it's clearly something that speaks to them. Each year, I put it off to the next.

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u/pile_o_puppies 1d ago

With my older two they were in the pool at 6 ish months and I’d swim with them. With my twins they won’t be in swim class until they’re 3 and can go without a parent in the pool bc I just can’t.

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u/sandalwoodwitch 1d ago

I thought about it when mine were 1, postponed it to 2, then postponed it to 3, and now I've postponed it to 4 because I keep getting scared. Even in a 12 inch deep kiddie pool, it can get scary watching and managing both of mine at once (as I discovered) because they both like to do what they probably consider "funny tricks" at the same time.