Their first simultaneous napīy nap, I am also including night-time “sleeping”. It was a struggle, I only just made it in time before they closed, and it was all over in 10 minutes, but I felt so proud of myself! 4. My first trip alone was to a baby health check at the doctor’s office. Not always easy, or possible, depending on where you are going and how easily your babies feed. Getting out of the house with more than one baby is so hard, and takes so much preparation – making sure both are fed and changed, with supplies packed takes a good two hours on your own (if you work fast!), by which time, when you reach your destination one of them will be hungry again so you have to be able to feed and change them on your own.
This is more a milestone for the grown-ups than for the babies, but it’s such a big one for twin parents. The first time you leave the house without help A rare but beautiful delight, unique to twin parents! The same goes for joint giggles. But there is something quite magical when you have both babies looking at you at the same time and smiling. I know the first smile is a milestone for any baby, and I loved it when my twins individually smiled at me. And when they smiled at each other too – priceless! 2. It didn’t happen a lot, but to look through my baby photos, you would think that’s what they spent their whole time doing. Occasionally, one would stare at the other and I would be poised with the camera waiting for the other to notice. They cried whether they were together or not, and it seemed as though they were trying to ignore each other’s existence altogether for the first two years. I had heard stories of newborn twins being upset if they weren’t in the same cot, or holding hands shortly after birth. I couldn’t wait for the moment when my twins would lock eyes on each other. So I put together a list of “firsts” that immediately came to mind, although different twins (and their parents) may experience these differently, depending on how the twins relate to each other. It got me to thinking about what other milestones twin parents experience that are perhaps not on the usual list of “baby and child development milestones”, but are nonetheless significant in twin development terms. But I realized that if I tried to explain the significance of this to parents of singletons, they may not quite appreciate what milestones they are, as, for obvious reasons, they do not generally mark these events for their own children. Both changes happened at the same time, through their own choice, and it felt like such a big step in their development. This year my children reached two new big milestones in their lives: going into separate bedrooms at home and separate classes at school. Read about nine milestones that only twin parents get to experience that are really very different than those their singleton parent friends experience.
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