My momiform basics:
Favorite tubs | Favorite baby support chairs | Favorite baby bouncer
Hello, my friends! I’ve had quite a few requests to walk through a day in the life of the twins and I at this stage of our lives. What do we do all day? What is our schedule like? What are my favorite products for the babies and I? Click HERE to see my absolute life-saving baby must-haves. I’m also always updating this list here of our favorite products as the babies grow which can be found at the top of my blog under “Favorites.”
I thought the best way of showing you about how our life is right now would be to walk you through with a video step by step throughout the day! If you like this, I think I might do this every few months because as they grow, our schedule will change. If you want some help getting your babies to sleep through the night and on a good schedule, read this post and buy this book. It’s a GAME CHANGER and we are all so happy because of it.
It will be fun for Harris and Goldie to see these videos as they get older too. How cool is it at that we have access to video recorders and digital cameras at our fingertips so easily? These kids are going to have a plethora of photos and videos to watch. And lucky for me I’ll get to re-live their childhood because I’m a ball baby and they growing WAY too fast. I literally started crying real tears the other day because I’m sad that they are growing so fast, and Tyler was crying real tears because he was laughing so hard. Ha!
So here it is. A day in the life of the twins and I!
My momiform basics that I pretty much wear every single day!
Andrea Nilsson says
February 10, 2017 at 1:32 pmWhat kind of dry shampoo do you use
Jenica Parcell says
February 10, 2017 at 2:39 pmJust Dove from the grocery store!
Amanda Barlow says
February 10, 2017 at 3:14 pmYou are the cutest! Sure wish we lived closer cuz I’m pretty sure we would be fast friends. And our babes would be bff’s obvi (Sydney is 6 months on sunday) PS. I’m from and live in spokane…sooo, go Gonzaga! ?
Oh, and I promise I’m not stalking you, but I emailed you awhile back after I bought that book to get my baby to sleep…we are nowhere need where we need to be for mama to be sane, but little miss slept almost 5 hours last night! Woot woot! ??
Jenica Parcell says
February 11, 2017 at 9:51 amAmanda – your basketball team is AMAZING!! I mean, even though we lost, it was still fun to watch your team play 🙂
You are so sweet! 5 hours is a great step in the right direction, sis! Getting enough sleep is my key to life happiness. But seriously. I hope that cute baby gets better and better at sleeping! xo
Dalia Vazquez says
February 10, 2017 at 5:46 pmI love your blog and your posts.
I have a 5 month old baby boy witch is not sleeping, we bought the book that you recommended “12 hours of sleep by 12 weeks old” but is not working for our baby 🙁
He wakes up around 5 or 6 times every night 🙁 and he can never gets back to sleep by himself, he cries and cries and cries 🙁 he can cry forever…
I agree with you about being a better person if we get enough sleep.
I would like you to ask you some advices that you used with your lovely twins.
Thank you
Jenica Parcell says
February 11, 2017 at 9:49 amHi Dalia – I am SO sorry that is hasn’t worked for you! Are you following the guidelines exactly and in the right order? Everyone that I have recommend the book to has absolutely loved it and so have we. I’m so sorry that your boy is not wanting to sleep! We just followed the book exactly and it worked for both of our babies. I’m sorry, I don’t have any other advice than that! Wishing you more sleep in the days ahead! xo
Hillary says
February 10, 2017 at 6:24 pmHi Jenica!
I started reading your blog when I began to look into infertility care last november, your story taught me a lot and made me feel much better. I ended up surprisingly finding out I was pregnant the week before I was scheduled for an IUI round, yay! Anyways I was so happy to find out you were pregnant soon after. My little chunk should be older than your babes, born 8/25 but they beat him here! They are the cutest teeniest little angels, and they seem so well behaved! You are a supermom you make twins look easy! Just wanted to say hello and thanks for sharing your story.
Hillary
Jenica Parcell says
February 11, 2017 at 9:47 amThank you so much for letting me know, Hillary! That means a lot to me. I’m so happy for you that you didn’t have to go through any infertility stuff and that your baby is here safe and sound! Hooray! So much love to you and your family. xo
Renay says
February 11, 2017 at 7:45 pmThanks for sharing 🙂
Jenica Parcell says
February 12, 2017 at 8:55 pmThank you! xo
Lucía says
February 12, 2017 at 6:26 amGreat video! Your babies seem to be angels!! 🙂 I live in spain and here there is not that book sadly. I have a 6 month old baby too, he use to sleep 6-7 hours every night, then he ask for a bottle and sleep other 3 hours more or less, but every day its different. I’m impressed with your twins, always the same hours!! I don’t know how to do it. I hope once day he start sleeping 12 hours ni a row by himself, maybe… any advice? Congrats for the way you do the things with your babies.
Xo
Lucía
Lucía says
February 12, 2017 at 7:24 amBy the way, do your twins wake up in the middle of the night some night? And for how long? Thank you
Jenica Parcell says
February 12, 2017 at 9:00 pmI’m glad you liked it! Honestly, the book is so incredible that I couldn’t possibly summarize it because I followed every detail. I’m sorry! I would say a good suggestion is to start a schedule and stick to it so your babies can expect what’s next and so can you. They don’t wake up at all in the night. Sometimes they’ll wake up in the morning at about 7 and then they lay in their cribs and relax and talk or fall back asleep after we put their bunnies in until it’s time to take them out of their cribs 🙂
Lindsay says
February 13, 2017 at 12:29 amI just had my twins (through Ivf) in November of last year. I ordered the book you recommended for sleeping. Already seen improvements, so thank you! How did you get your babes to go to sleep in their cribs (opposed to rocking them)? Did you do the CIO method at all?
Jenica Parcell says
February 13, 2017 at 5:56 pmCongratulations, Lindsay!
I just put them in their cribs one night! I never rocked them to sleep though before, so they were used to falling asleep after being put in their bassinets awake. I would say start with nap time and see how that goes, then move to the night once they’re used to it. I never used cry it out, the most they cried was 3-5 minutes like the book says 🙂 Wishing you the best of sleep!!
Laura says
February 13, 2017 at 6:27 pmWow! Loved seeing a day in the life of yours! Your babies are precious. They seriously are SO happy!! I mean, do they ever cry? Do they just religiously sleep during nap time and patiently wait for you to come get them without crying? It just seems so calm and surreal! I have twins the same age and whew–they’re pretty darn vocal! My little girl would never just lay there so sweetly while I fed the other! Ha! I feel like a three ring circus providing endless entertainment. Back and forth, back and forth. I love it but it just seems a lot more exhausting than yours! And your “witching hour”
Seems so so calm too! You are so lucky! Any tips for having such perfect little angels? Their demeanor is incredible!! Love your blog and having our girlies for comparison!