Topics relevant specifically for parents of twins, both in Denmark and around the world.
Why won’t my baby sleep? If you’ve found yourself googling that at 2am — if your baby wakes every two hours, if you’ve tried the schedule and the wake windows and the eat-play-sleep routine and none of it has made…
When our twins were born at 35 weeks and 4 days, we already knew there was a very good chance we would spend time in the neonatal unit. Any baby born under about 2.3 kg is typically admitted to the…
I call this a “planned” c-section because, although it had already been decided that I needed to give birth via c-section due to growth restriction in our Twin A, the timing was not planned. I had fallen and landed on…
I knew that breastfeeding twins would be hard. What I didn’t know was what that actually meant in practice. Before having my boys, I had never breastfed before, so while I expected challenges, I didn’t really have a frame of…
From strollers to sleep setups, everything that made our international trips doable (and even enjoyable). When our twins were 9–10 months old, we took our first long-haul trip: Copenhagen to San Francisco, then San Francisco to Newark, and finally Newark…
There are so many baby products out there, so as a first time foreigner parent in Denmark (to twins no less), it felt like a huge task to figure out what I needed, how many (do I need 1 or…
When people think about twins (especially identical twins), they often imagine two cute little kids in matching outfits – best friends who are all smiles. The type of pictures you might see on Instagram or of famous twins, like Mary-Kate…
When I first moved to Denmark, I never imagined I would one day start a blog. At the time, I came for what I thought would be a temporary chapter: a two-year master’s degree supported by a Fulbright scholarship. My…