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As your babies turn into little people with personalities, opinions and emotions, you should factor in spending some time one on one with twins, or each of your multiples.

Tips to Spend One on One Time with Twins or Multiples

One of the hardest things about having twins or multiple babies is finding the time. Finding the time for anything, I mean. Looking after newborn twins takes approximately 19 hours a day!

You probably fit in the essentials, like keeping your babies alive, and regularly keeping bottoms clean and getting them to stop crying and have some sleep. But beyond that, you might struggle to find time to do anything else.

As your babies turn into little people with personalities, opinions, and emotions, you should factor in spending some time one on one with each of your multiples.

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Having triplets is amazing! Its not all hard work, there are many moments where there is triple the joy.

Here are some fun triplet words

Triagonising – When you don’t have enough arms to hold all three babies at once and they are all crying

Triathlon – what you feel like you have done when you try to get out of the house on time in the morning

Tricitement – The reaction upon finding you are pregnant with triplets

Triffic – What it’s like to be a parent of triplets

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Trigantic – The size of your belly just before you have birth to your triplets

Tripinnately – How well your triplets know each other

Triplash – what people do as they walk by you and realise there are THREE babies in the pram

Triplete – when your family is complete upon the birth of triplets

Triplication – making sure that something can done three times so everyone gets an even turn

Triplings – When your triplets are are all crawling in different directions at your feet

Triplode – How a full day on your own with the triplets can make you feel

Triplosion – What your house looks like after a day at home with your triplets

Trippers – Three things that cause you to see psychedelic lights because you are so tired

Trippin’ out – What people do when they see you have triplets

Trired – When all three of your babies are overtired.  And so are you.

Tripsane – What your triplets can cause you to feel

Tripsistent – When all three of your triplets want the same thing

Tripspiration – When you look at just how far they have come since they were born

Tripspirators – When your triplets conspire against you

Tripsults – when one triplet insults another about being a triplet

Triptastic – When your triplets are playing nicely together

Triptation – When you go on vacation with your triplets

Triptators – When you feel like it is your triplets that are in charge…..not you!

Tripwreck – What your car looks like when your triplets have been snacking in the back seat

Triveting – Hearing other people’s opinions about your triplets

Truncle – Uncle of triplets

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Twinfo hopes you enjoyed these fun triplet words!

You can read our fun twin words HERE.

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Author: Sara Otero

My husband had only been away for 6 weeks when I found out I was pregnant. He was in the middle of his basic training in the Military and a very emotional video call was his way of finding out. The pregnancy was the easy bit, even though the majority of the time I was dealing with the scans and hospital visits without him. Fortunately, he was able to call regularly during his time away. There was a period of a few months where he was able to come home for weekends and he also managed to come to the week 20 scan.

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Post-partum hair loss after twins or triplets

When it comes to pregnancy, we are often faced with different symptoms and side effects. Fortunately, many of these disappear once we have delivered our babies. However, there are a select few that decide to show themselves after we have given birth. Such as post-partum hair loss.

After birth and up to around the 6 month mark post-partum you may start to notice that you are developing a lot of hair loss. Not just the usual few strands being left behind here and there, but losing a LOT of hair. If you have noticed this happening, don’t stress – it is completely normal. It is a hormonal change that many of us go through after birth.

Let’s take a look into post-partum hair loss after twins or triplets in a bit more detail.

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Congratulations on being blessed with twins! Having twins can be so much fun……and then there are the times where you have a “twincident” and its not so much fun!

What is a “twincident” I hear you ask? Well….read on to find out.

Fun Twin Words for Parents of Twins

Twiblings – Siblings who are twins

Twiglets – When your twins act like little piglets

Twhingers – Twins who whinge.  A lot.

Twinadoes – Like a tornado.  But there are two of them.  And they live in your house permanently.

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Twinathons – The amount of effort it feels like to strap your twins in their car seats

Twinces – Boy twins (twin princes)

Twinception – The moment your twins were conceived

Twincesses – Girl twins (twin princesses)

Twincharged – When your twins are bouncing off each other’s energy

Twincident – When your twins are together and get into everything and cause trouble

Twinclone – Identical twins

Twincredible – The fact that at one stage you had 3 heads, 6 legs and 30 fingers

Twincubator – Being pregnant with twins

Twindependence Day – When your twins insist on putting their own shoes on

Twindividuals – How your twins want to be treated

Twinepathy – The art of contacting your twin subconsciously

Twinfo – Australia’s largest online resource for parents of twins (and triplets!)

Twing – A swing that holds twins.  Check out the Twinfo ‘Twing Directory’ HERE.

Twingenuity – When twins work together to achieve a common goal (generally up to mischief!)

Twingers – Twins who have ginger hair

Twinglish – The secret language only your twins speak and understand

Twinititus – When you can’t hear anything over the constant noise your twins cause

Twinjas – When your twins both use their ninja moves to outwit you

Twinkles – The twin lights of your life

Twinly – Something done or felt in a manner only possible to be understood and felt by twins.

Twinnection – The connection between twins

Twinning – The act of Winning and being a Twin.. simultaneously

Twinnuendo – When one twin makes a joke about the other twin

Twinsane – The amount of crazy comments that random strangers feel the need to make about your twins or your twin pregnancy

Twinsanity – A word to describe your life

Twinside Joke – An inside joke between twins

Twinsistent – When both your twins insist on “me do it”

Twinspect – When each twin must check what the other twin has to ensure it is fair

Twinspiration – When you look back at how far your twins have come since they were born

Twinstars – The stars of your life

Twinstigator – The twin who started the trouble

Twinstinct – When you just know your twins are getting into mischief

Twintastic – When your twins are behaving and being nice to each other generally the best 10 seconds of your day!

Twinternet – When one twin just knows what the other twin is thinking

Twisdom – Things only other twin parents understand

Twisters – Twin sisters

Twit – The random stranger at the shops who says ‘Oh, yes I know what it is like have twins, after all my children are only x months apart!’

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You can read our fun triplet words HERE.

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