u/Southern_Radish1996

I’m looking to buy a budget friendly side by side stroller for my one year old twins. I have a mockingbird and I’m tired of disassembling it and putting it together multiple times every time I run an errand with my twins.
I’ve done some research but everything suggested out there is like $500+ dollars and anything I find out there that’s cheaper I’ve never heard of. Facebook marketplace place in my area is solely very overpriced beat up city joggers. I’m looking for a double side by side that can fit through a standard doorway, folds without being taken apart, and has decent storage in the basket. I appreciate any recommendations!

My twins are 11 months old and go to daycare twice a week. At home we sleep trained them and are on a pretty strict schedule with wake up at 6:30, 9:30 nap, 2:30 nap, 7:30 bedtime no wake windows but we do adjust within like 15 minutes if we are super grumpy. Since daycare is twice a week I’ve never really been to picky about what happens there. Lately they’ve done mostly one nap at daycare some days two. They’re about to move up to the next classroom where I found out nap is once a day at a set time. The thing is at home we sometimes barely make it to our next naps without breakdowns so I’m always shocked they vibe on 1.5/2hrs of sleep at daycare. With daycares nap time they would have a 6.5 hour wake window before nap. Ideally I’d like them on the same schedule since it is a set nap time but it feels too early since I see so many people say don’t even transition down to one nap until 15 months.

My question is since it’s only twice a week should I continue to just let them do their thing at daycare and mine at home till we transition on our own time? Should I try to get them on the same schedule? Being up from 6:30am to 7:30pm feels so tight on one two hour nap a day. I’d love a later wake up but daycare days have to be this early so everyone gets to work on time and with our past sleep troubles we are not trying to change wake up times day to day.
Any advice or suggestions is appreciated while I try to figure out how to move forward!

Edit: forgot to add we cap home naps at 3 hours and a typical day has two 1.5 hour naps or a 2hr and 1hr nap

After only ever seeing negative comments about traveling with kids I was scared for vacation with my ten month old twins. We are home now and I can safely say our trip was amazing! If you are in doubt just go on the trip!
We had quality time together as a family, we watched our boys experience so many new things, I learned to chill out more and roll with the punches. We had many positive interactions with other twin families we ran into. Yes it was chaotic, the travel days sucked, and somehow we doubled the number of teeth we have on the trip but the positive experiences and memories were worth it!
TLDR just try the vacation and see how it goes

Im a first time mom to almost ten month old twins. I’ve always fed them at the same time for the sake of our schedules and because they’re both slow eaters. Lately feeds have turned into what feels like herding kittens. I used to feed them in the twin pillow or bouncers. We are way too big for the bouncers and the pillow has turned into a fun climbing gym. I’ve tried a low stim environment and they find something to distract them. I know they’re still hungry because they’ll crawl over to the bottle to eat or try to get me to feed them in weird positions. I tried straw converters for the bottles too because I thought they’d appreciate the freedom with them but that was a disaster too. Any advice on this phase would be greatly appreciated because bottles have become a full on sport that has me sweating by the end with some wild babies.

My twin boys are nine months old. They’re super curious active guys and lately that has included being all over one another. Very recently they’ve started really stealing stuff from one another, pulling on each other, and worst pulling on the others hair. I know none of this is intentional and they’re just exploring especially cause and effect. However I’m really at a loss of how to handle it because currently I just take the offender off their brother and say no while the other is upset. I then comfort the other but it’s very delayed as it can take a minute to get the other away and not going back to their brother. It ends up feeling like I’m ignoring the one who’s hurt and giving attention to an action I don’t want. I just impulse bought raising twins and what to do when you’re having two but I’m looking for advice from how everyone else handles this and any other recommendations on resources for how to effectively parent multiples. I’m a first time mom and admittedly have fallen really behind being in survival mode so long on reading any of the parenting books I do have.