Tips from seasoned parents who manage to successfully get two kids and themselves ready to leave the house.
1. Reduce the demands
Your task is to get out of the house. The boy is wearing a pink jumpsuit and the girl is wearing a hat with a car - so be it! Children don’t care what their outfits look like until they are around three years old. If both babies are warm, fed, changed, and kissed, then you can consider yourself a super mom!
2. Start with yourself
Pack your bag, get fully dressed, and only then start getting everything ready for the twins. Otherwise, there's a risk they'll get restless while you're looking for a clean shirt and your phone.
3. Prepare things ahead of time
Lay out a set of clothes for each twin, then put the babies side by side.
4. Dress both of them at the same time
Get on assembly line mode. Change one diaper and then the other. Get a bodysuit on twin one and then on twin two. Then overalls and finally hats. You get the idea. This technique is more efficient than trying to dress one of them and then go on to the other.
5. Put on warm clothes last
Jackets or sweaters can be put on last when the babies are already in the stroller and you are near the doorway.
6. Have an SOS bag
Put some of the babies’ favorite and most entertaining toys inside. You can use them to keep one baby busy if the other needs to be changed or fed before heading out the door.
