You Know Your a Twin Mom When....

You Know Your a Twin Mom When....you showers feel like a weeks vacation. You come out refreshed and ready to astart again.

I just realized this morning that those were my feelings exactly every time I got out of the shower.

I love my new job I am having a blast.

 

You have been awake for 6 hours and still have not finished your first cup of coffee or gotten a bite to eat yet.

When going out with just one baby and leaving one at home is so EASY.

 

When you accidently refer to a friends' unborn baby as "they."

 

QUOTE(skittles @ Jan 6 2008, 10:21 AM) [snapback]559646[/snapback]
When you accidently refer to a friends' unborn baby as "they."


I have done this LOTS! My daughter also thinks that all women have 2 at a time!

 

Everyone is amazed that you can carry two babies together up and down the stairs a few times per day and it doesn't even seem odd to you.

 

QUOTE(MichelleL @ Jan 6 2008, 10:49 AM) [snapback]559673[/snapback]
Everyone is amazed that you can carry two babies together up and down the stairs a few times per day and it doesn't even seem odd to you.


Yes!! This is so true. Everyone thinks I am nuts for doing this, but it must be done and I am so used to it it doesn't phase me at all.

 

QUOTE(moontwins @ Jan 6 2008, 09:49 AM) [snapback]559623[/snapback]
You have been awake for 6 hours and still have not finished your first cup of coffee or gotten a bite to eat yet.

When going out with just one baby and leaving one at home is so EASY.




I love when one is asleep and I have to run an errand and DH stay home with one. Ha it is so Easy :8714bumper:

 

when you go to the store and walk fast so that no one can talk to you...
when you get arms of steel because your use to carrying 2 carseats and a diaper bag from the house to the car... and back..

 

I read this somewhere ... may have even been here and it cracked me up b/c we do it all the time ...

you know you are a twin mom when you refer to your kids as "this one" and "that one"

 

QUOTE(skittles @ Jan 6 2008, 03:21 PM) [snapback]559646[/snapback]
When you accidently refer to a friends' unborn baby as "they."


QUOTE(AshleyLD @ Jan 6 2008, 06:26 PM) [snapback]559796[/snapback]
when you go to the store and walk fast so that no one can talk to you...


I do this a lot too!

Also, when your buying baby things, you're always calculating the cost of buying two of this and two of that.

 

When you feed your singleton niece and get bored waiting to give the next bite.
As a committed side-sleeper, you lie flat on your back so they each get half of you to cuddle on.
You can get dressed for any event in under 7 minutes. A shower only adds about 10 more minutes.
An entire third world family could live off the contents of your car, purse & jacket pockets for a week.
You have a vague memory that coffee is supposed to be consumed hot.
People who give you hand-me-downs apologize that they only have one of some really cool item-- while your out-of-state brother-in-law sends 2 of every battery operated, annoying toy he buys.
You tell your children what a lucky mommy you are - some people only have one baby at a time, but you got to have 2!

 

When you can skarf down and entire meal before your husband is even close to being finished!

 

When you brace yourself for the question: "Do twins run in your family?" (ahem, um, noooo....)

 

When you eat/go to the bathroom not when you're hungry or nature calls, but when you get a good window of opportunity, because heaven knows if you wait until you need to it'll be too late!

 

QUOTE(annelily2000 @ Jan 6 2008, 02:47 PM) [snapback]559942[/snapback]
When you can skarf down and entire meal before your husband is even close to being finished!


Before I read your post I was going to write this one. When DH and I have had the opportunity to go out to eat alone, I finish my meal in like five minutes because even when the babies aren't there, I feel like I have to hurry if I want to eat.

 

QUOTE(annelily2000 @ Jan 6 2008, 08:47 PM) [snapback]559942[/snapback]
When you can skarf down and entire meal before your husband is even close to being finished!


When you scarf down a beautiful dinner at a nice restaurant in under 3 minutes --even though the children are at home with a sitter ... b/c you're in the habit of eating quickly so you can help or coax the twins to eat before they lose interest.

 

Months back there was this same thread and I thought it was so good, I retpyed it in word and saved it. I hope you dont mind me posting this LONG lis!!!

You have the arms muscles of a Greek God from packing two 15lb bundles around all day. Not to mentions their carseats and other paraphanelia!!!

You're able to feed one while using your leg to bounce the other in a bouncy seat.

You ignore the stares while you grocery shop with one worn in a Bjorn carrier in front and the other in the car seat in the carriage.

You're at a playground and you realize you have not made eye contact with any adult because your eyes are too busy darting back and forth between your twins!

One goes with his father to visit relatives, and you realize just how EASY it is to have only one child to watch!! (and how much you miss having two!!!)

When you think 3 hours straight of sleep is absolutely heavenly....at least that applied during the first 5 months!!!

You calculate how much one really nice toy would cost times two, because you KNOW that they'll both want it at the same time.

You offer only one type of snack, becuase if you offer two, one will say they want "x" the other will say "y", and then when they are halfway through, both will decide that they want what the other has.

You can't take more than one adult in your vehicle, because the backseat is taken up by carseats.

You know you are a twin mom . . . when you buy everything in twos.

when you learn to sleep/eat/pay bills/etc in the car...just because the babies are sleeping and the thought of waking them up is painful!

When someone complains about how hard having A newborn is an you roll your eyes.

When you can breastfeed one, help the other walk and have a conversation on the phone.

When you can feed two babies and yourself at one time.

You see someone with their baby and wonder absent mindedly where their "other" baby is.

Someone else is pregnant with one baby and you refer to their baby in the plural. BTW, my sister just had a baby last month and she & I both did that the whole pregnancy since we had gotten so used to saying "them" or "the babies" when I was pregnant. I still call and ask her sometimes "How did they sleep last night? Oh, I mean, how did HE sleep last night?" Isn't that crazy?

you seek out other twins in public by:
~ looking for another double stroller
~ just *how* pregnant is that lady in Target...enough to ask?
~ looking for kids in matching outfits

When you literally PRAY that they will both sleep for 3-4 hours straight so that you can sleep in more than 2 hour intervals.

When you see a mother shopping in Walmart or the grocery store with her ONE infant in its car seat and you wonder how nice it must be to actually have room to put items you want to buy in your cart instead of filling it with baby seats.

When you get really good at tuning out the cries of the baby you aren't feeding because what other choice do you have? (I didn't feed them together until about 4 months - what was I thinking??? I was also proficient at rocking one in the bouncy while feeding the other!)

When you LOVE that they are now walking because it is SOO much easier to take them both out to the car at the same time AND easier to take them out to play in the backyard.

You get fuming MAD at the mom of a singleton taking up the only double buggy at Publix so you have to push both twins in the one cart and try to carry a birthday cake so they won't play with it in the cart. (This happened last week)

...you hold them both on your lap and feel sorry for the other moms that only get kisses from one at a time.

...you need both coffee and 15 min. of TS in the morning(before the boys get up)to be able to "function" all day.

...you can cut 40 finger and toenails, while wrestling the one you are cutting nails on and having your hair pulled by the other one!

...you can carry both babies, 3 bags of groceries and the mail into the house without dropping anything!!! (My biggest accomplishment to date!!!)

When your house looks like a daycare exploded

you are considered the supermom at playgroup

when you roll your eyes at mothers who say "schedule... no why would the baby have a schedule?"

when you buy toddler leashes after swearing you would not be one of "those" mothers

When the mother of a singleton hands you her baby so she can get something done and you go help her because you are only holding one baby!

You cry when your babysitter calls and says she can't watch your kids and you have to stay home from work!

You can only shave one leg per shower because both legs take too much time

When you have 40 bottles and nipples lined up in the dishwasher

When you feel sorry for pregnant moms who are only having one

You have to tuck your twin skin into your jeans so it doesn't drag the floor,

You learned more about DNA and eggs and placentas than you ever did in health class

You can't remember the last time you ate food that was still warm

You can collapse a double stroller and heave it into the mini van faster than the Incredible Hulk

You have pictures and pictures of your twins but you have no idea who is who so you make it up

When you call your kid by the wrong name but you pretend you did it on purpose just to be silly

When you wake one up to eat so you can feed them both at the same time cuz you know you are screwed if they are on 2 different schedules

When you know Heaven is having a baby in each arm!

When you do double talk…Please don't touch that, Please don't touch that, Hold my hand
Hold my hand, Don't eat that!, Don't eat that!, Sorry about that, Sorry about that......

You know you are a twin parent when going to the gynecologist to get your yearly exam seems like a thrill.

When grocery shopping, you use 2 carts -- one for the babies and one for the food -- so that your little mischief makers can't throw everything out onto the floor.
To you waking up at 7.30am is a long lie.

You know the difference between identical and fraternal.

When someone says that having one baby is really hard you want to shout at them "ARE YOU KIDDING ME!"

A 1/2 hour walk takes you 1 1/2 hours because you get stopped by that many people asking questions.

A friend asks you to look after there baby for a couple of hours and you say sure whats one more.

You know all the words to the tv tv shows that they watch although you "dont watch them" !!

 

You know you are a twin mom when you carry in 2 car seats and a diaper bag and someone offers to help, and you say, no I got it. (I did this today on the way into church)

 

...when you see someone start to approach you with their mouth open and you know EXACTLY what to say: "Yes they're twins, No, they're both boys, No, they're not identical, This is the bigger one, This is the one who weighed more at birth, This is the older one, Yes it's hard, Yes we can tell them apart, No we're not trying for girls next!!"

...when you scour the parking lot at Walmart looking for an open space next to an empty buggy no matter how far from the door...

...when you would have otherwise gone out of the house in your baggy old sweatsuit, but you decide to at least brush your teeth and hair and maybe throw on some jeans because you KNOW that everywhere you go with the twins, you are going to be the center of attention...ha!!

...when you see another twin mom out and about and you give each other that 'knowing' look!!

 

QUOTE(mhardman @ Jan 6 2008, 11:42 PM) [snapback]560474[/snapback]
You know you are a twin mom when you carry in 2 car seats and a diaper bag and someone offers to help, and you say, no I got it. (I did this today on the way into church)


Someone did this to me at the pedi's office and I said no too that is how people steal your baby! Too many crazy's in this world!!!!

You know you are a twin mom when the phone rings and one baby is crying and the caller asks if they should call back at a better time and you say this IS a better time because only one is crying!

 

QUOTE(b/gtwinmom07 @ Jan 7 2008, 01:05 AM) [snapback]560495[/snapback]
Someone did this to me at the pedi's office and I said no too that is how people steal your baby! Too many crazy's in this world!!!!

You know you are a twin mom when the phone rings and one baby is crying and the caller asks if they should call back at a better time and you say this IS a better time because only one is crying!


This is sooo me when my best friend calls and the babies start to fuss because it's feeding time (and they have NO patience)...She says, "You need me to let you go?" and I'm like..."No way girl, I got these boys under control!"
That's a good one...You know you're a twin mom when you can get both babies out of SEPARATE cribs at one time and set them on the floor propped up in Boppy pillows, turn on Spongebob so the 4 yr old is entertained for the moment, and pop 2 bottles into the babies' mouths..all while talking on the phone!!"

 

When you have two soaking wet slobbery shoulders from burping them and you get warm fuzzy feelings from it!

 

when you look at the baby pics of a friend's baby and think that the child looks so lonely.

 

- you are two weeks post partum and almost open the door for the hunky UPS guy but realize that something feels 'off'...and that something is your SHIRT and one flap of the nursing bra is open and a giant rugby-ball sized boob is hanging out

- You don't even realize you are standing in the street in front of your house in your pajamas because DH is taking the girls out for a walk and it takes two of you to get them in the stroller (how come I can do it alone??!!)

- you no longer like the attention you attract when you're out and wish people would stop asking if they are twins - and although you try to be kind and compassionate, you're really thinking : "uh, don't they LOOK ALMOST EXACTLY ALIKE, YOU MORON???!!! Do you not see the matching hats??!!!!!!)

- the notion of a full nights' sleep is like science fiction

- you try to remember that every baby is difficult and different, and if you had started w/only one you, too, would think it were a lot, but - when your singleton friends complain you think 'Ha, I could do that with one hand tied behind my back!

- you know more about every double stroller ever made than the marketing folks at Maclaren

- you realize that although you have chronic back/shoulder/neck pain, at least it's bi-lateral, so you're balanced in your imbalance

- you've stopped taking parenting advice from anyone who doesn't have twins

- you don't have patience for anyone who complains how expensive having one baby is

- you realize that you are, in fact, Super Woman

 

It's 35 degrees outside and you have to take your coat off because you've broken into a sweat moving the kids from the stroller to the car.

 

When you have had to microwave your coffee so many times that you finally just pour the darn thing down the drain and make a new cup :blink:

...and then the microwaving process starts all over :wacko:

 

QUOTE(double-or-nothing @ Jan 7 2008, 02:28 PM) [snapback]561216[/snapback]
When you have had to microwave your coffee so many times that you finally just pour the darn thing down the drain and make a new cup :blink:

...and then the microwaving process starts all over :wacko:

OMG!!! That happens all the time!

 

QUOTE(skittles @ Jan 7 2008, 12:00 PM) [snapback]561034[/snapback]
It's 35 degrees outside and you have to take your coat off because you've broken into a sweat moving the kids from the stroller to the car.


Hysterical!!!! Happens all the time.