Good days and the bad ones..

Pragathi Kallu
2 min readDec 28, 2021

Life in general has a lot of good and bad days. Parenting is no exception to that. Just like in life, we can always learn something from the bad days and from good days as well.

When you are dealing with two small babies at the same time, There is high probability that at least one of them is going through a crazy cycle. Be it a growth spurt or regression. Here are specific things that I have learned so far from my twin parenting.

Lesson 1 — Overtired baby at the end of the baby

Early on in my parenting journey, I have learned about baby sleep requirements and wake windows. Babies need a lot of sleep and there are approximate wake windows based on their age. Learning that info helped me a lot. there are certain cues that you can look to see if the baby is tired. That means baby needs sleep. It is a bit tough to get them to sleep but it is important for them to sleep. There were days we had to handle crying baby for about an hour in the evening because we failed to follow the wake windows.

Lesson 2 — Surround yourself with positive personalities

Having a baby is a very big change in all of our lives. With twins, it is even more tough. Things can go wrong in the early stages of their lives. They are getting used to the new world and parents are going through similar phase as well. Both parents…

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