We now have
2-month-old twins, and have come to discover that there is a sort of informal
parent-of-multiples It Gets Better Project. When other people (not parents of
multiples) see families with a cute new baby, or in our case babies, they most
often say something generic about how you should just treasure every
precious moment cause they’re not small for long. I think in part these people are in denial about how hard it is
having a newborn, but they also just have no clue how hard it is with two. In
any case, every single time we talk to other parents of twins they always say
“Just hang in there. It gets better. So much better! …” And while we love our
children, we are hanging on to that thread of hope, because caring for two infants
simultaneously is incredibly exhausting.
