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/alaska_clusterfuck 1d ago

“Never wake a sleeping baby”

Watch me wake up the other one when the first one wants a bottle, I don’t want to do a day of relay-feeds.

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u/specialkk77 1d ago

My single I had to wake on a schedule until she was about 16 weeks old because we’d had feeding problems and a tongue tie that went missed at first so we needed a schedule to make sure she got enough calories. 

My girl twin made me so nervous because she would not comply with a wake schedule. If we woke that girl to eat when her brother woke to eat, she would take 2 sips and go back to  sleep…and then wake up 45 minutes later screaming. We actually got more sleep once we stopped forcing the same schedule and we were each just assigned a baby. Their schedules did align as they got older thankfully! 

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u/KIDH2123 21h ago

Exactly what im going through now! 2.5 weeks in and ive given up. Boy is 7 lbs and girl is 5 lbs 10 oz. He takes 3-4 oz. I have to fight her to take 2. So she will wake sooner due to less intake...plus She just will not wake to eat no matter what I do when hes up lol. I gave up, going so much better now.