son is in constant need of attention

Hi my name is alicia and i am new to this website. I have 3 1/2 month old twins Boy and girl. My daughter is very content and happy and can sit for hours entertaining herself. However, my son is in constant need of attention this started about 3 weeks ago. If im not holding him or talking to him he does this constant whining pouting cry thing. Obviously i am not able to hold him and devote all of my attention to him. Is this maybe a phase? is there anyway I can break this. the whining is all day and its driving me nuts.

 

Hi my name is alicia and i am new to this website. I have 3 1/2 month old twins Boy and girl. My daughter is very content and happy and can sit for hours entertaining herself. However, my son is in constant need of attention this started about 3 weeks ago. If im not holding him or talking to him he does this constant whining pouting cry thing. Obviously i am not able to hold him and devote all of my attention to him. Is this maybe a phase? is there anyway I can break this. the whining is all day and its driving me nuts.

 

Hi and . I think they all have their phases where one wants to be held all of the time. Unfortunately, even though we are SUPER MOMS of twins, we only have one set of hands!!! Mine just kind of grew out of that phase. If I had to take care of one, the whiny one went in the Exersauser or Jumperoo, or took a paci. It will get better, it is only a phase!!

 

Alicia welcome to TS! You'll love this site, I couldn't have done without it through my pregnancy and the girls' first three months! My girls take turns needing attention so I'm not sure I can offer any good info for you, but I'm sure you'll get lots of good advice, I just wanted to say

 

Welcome to TS! Yes, they seem to take turns being the 'needy' twin. He obviously needs you for whatever reason right now. My advice is to spend as much time as you can with him without compromising the care of the other! They seem to take turns. HTH!

 

thanks for the replies

 

I could have posted this exact situation a few months back. It is so amazing that to be twins they can be so different!! My Emily is the most content, sweet little thing, half the time you forget she is there. Sam used to be such an attention hog, but he got SOO much better when he became more mobile (rolling and army crawling)and able to entertain himself and play with toys. Maybe this will be the case for your little guy!

Good luck! And to TS!!!

 

They do take turns, Sean was my super needy twin when they were first born, now it's James. If he needs you, he needs you kwim? Maybe he'd like to be packed around in a sling, then you could have your hands free to do other things if you needed to.