We have Ainsley and Gavin and Patrick I believe that Karen has Hailey and Jayden
In answer to your question to gating the twins - DEFINITELY YES !!!!!!! Once they started moving around we began gating them off. Even in the new house we have gates everywhere, especially b/c we have 2 staircases. Luckily we were able to do that w/ the configuration of the house. I think I would be a raving lunatic chasing after them all day long up and down steps. We also have a finished basement in this house which is a Godsend Too bad they won't play by themselves down there !!!! We also have the squeeze doorlocks on every door in the house, otherwise they would be escaping or constantly helping themselves to the pantry.
Anything that toddlers are supposed to do, Ainsley and Gavin have done it or will do it. They went into drawers, touched the oven, climbed on furniture and tables, touch the TV, touch the fireplace (of course it was not on) They love the bathroom and toilets... Run into the street. If you give me time I could think of so much more..... Don't worry about losing weight, you will loose it in another 6 months chasing after twins !!!!!! There is absolutely never a dull moment in our house. Boredom is never a word that enters our vocabulary.
As I am sure people have told you there is never, ever, a dull moment with twins in your life You will forever find joy and laughter mixed with some tears and frustration, and be filled with so much intense love you won't know what to do with it . Happy twins everyone
DH and I are 36. Married 10 yrs. p/g 4/01 m/c @ 9 wks. DH dx w/ severe mf - told best chance of conception was IVF. 1st IVF 5/02, m/c @ 7 wks. FET 5/03 conceived triplets and lost triplet at 11 wks. gestation. Had B/G twins @ 32wks. ++ p/g 5/5/05 conceived nat. much to our surprise
Meg, please forgive me for mixing up your names! I think sometimes when I start to type I am not quite awake yet!
I had to work yesterday from 11-8 and dh is out of town so my sitter had to stay for 10 hours. She was a champ considering the day she had. I wrote a 3 page letter on the usual day around here. The children were quite fussy she said but they were asleep when I got home and woke at their usual time this morning. I brought her home a 12pk. and she had 4 before she left. Telling me all about the day and I laughed soo hard. She seemed to take it all in stride.
Anyways a woman came in last night and told me about her twins (they are 38 now) telling me about when they were infants and how everyone admires them. She goes on to say they had no idea how hard it was! I hear ya lady. I have to say, now that they sleep through the night things are so much better! You definately need your sleep to keep up the pace! Well, I gotta run. I have errands today and work tonight so I better get rollin around here. Have a great weekend everyone!
33 yrs old married to dh 12 1/2 yrs. scarred fallopian tubes from laser surgery for cervical cancer cells 3rd ivf attempt in march, now pg. with b/g twins due 12/15/05
Meg, Oh boy am I afraid for the days my two are running around! Now, it's so easy to just set them in a boppy or a swing or whatever. I'm in trouble! My house is very, very open and there's no way to gate off sections. I will gate off the staircase at least but I'll have to babyproof like crazy everywhere on the main floor. I have a good friend with a toddler who said that he kept starting the dishwasher since they had it in the locked position. Well they left it in the unlocked position and he grabbed a steak knife, point UP and RAN with it!! She said she absolutely panicked but had to approach him slowly. Thankfully, no harm done. But it did give me a scary glimpse into my near future. My dishwasher has no lock on it so I may be in the market for a new one!
Cassandra, I'm so bummed that I still don't have your email. I'm so anxious to see pictures of your babies. My out of office is on since I"m not here full time anymore that shouldn't have any impact on getting emails. I don't understand it. I receive tons every day. Did you try replying to my email? That may work. Sorry for all the bother.
As always, so nice to read stories from you wonderful ladies. Take care and enjoy! Karen
39 years old. Divorced at 26, 2 teenage daughters from that marriage. 3 devastating miscarriages. B/G twins born 1/23/06 after IVF at 29 weeks, 4 days.
Don't worry, you still have time until you need to childproof Ainsley and Gavin didn't begin to touch things until they were able to walk around. Gavin didn't begin walking until 15 months and Ainsley began fully walking at 17 months. It was then that we fully childproofed the kitchen. Don't get me wrong they did destroy our coffee table by banging every toy they had on it, when they were only cruising. It now has a very, very distressed look about it, as do all of our tables !!!! Since we have moved we have not put safety locks on our drawers and cabinets. Mostly b/c they are new, and we wanted to keep them that way until we had to childproof for Patrick, and Ainsley and Gavin will listen to "No" a little bit better than when they were 18 months.
As far as dishwashers go, I don't think you will need to buy a new one !!! I am pretty sure that they have saftey locks to put on them. I did try to put a lock on our old one, but I was not successful b/c of the configuration of the dishwasher. We too had a runaway steak knife !!!! Once I had left the twins for a brief moment to get something upstairs, and our clever son, decided to pull a chair over to the counter and invited his sister up on the chair as well to play with our Henckels knife set. I almost had a heartattack when I saw them with all of the knives out on the counter. I just calmly went over and got them off the chair, which usually isn't my style, but I was so afraid that one of them was going to get hurt that I didn't make a big deal about it fearing that they would continually touch it. Luckily they have never tried to touch it again Definitely their guardian angels were watching over them !!!
One Step Up catalog/website has lots of safety items in it, if you are looking for childproofing ideas. You can get many things at BabiesRUs, Target, Lowes, Walmart, etc., but I know that the catalog/website has extra large gates to fit more open spaces or open space floor plans. Luckily we can just use the pressure mounted kind in our new house, but had we not been able to, I would have splurged and bought the extra large ones.
DH and I are 36. Married 10 yrs. p/g 4/01 m/c @ 9 wks. DH dx w/ severe mf - told best chance of conception was IVF. 1st IVF 5/02, m/c @ 7 wks. FET 5/03 conceived triplets and lost triplet at 11 wks. gestation. Had B/G twins @ 32wks. ++ p/g 5/5/05 conceived nat. much to our surprise
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Telling me all about the day and I laughed soo hard. She seemed to take it all in stride.