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How to Prepare for Bringing Home Your Newborn Multiples

-Dont shower for 4 days -When you do shower forget to shave one leg and spend the majority of your time ugly crying and wondering if you can nap while standing up -Set an alarm to go off every 2 hours that is high pitched and makes your armpits sweaty -Run around your house hysterical for an hour in only pants at 2 am -Stay awake for 24 hours then curl up in bed, and don't sleep, just cry -Wonder if you can die from not sleeping -Google if you can die from not sleeping -Google when babies sleep through the night -Cry -Google what baby poop should look like -Don't leave your house for a month -Eat pizza while on the toilet -Pretend like you have no social skills what so ever and blurt out random words and slur your speech -Use baby formula for coffee creamer -Only eat cheese and drink coffee for a week -Worry about everthing possible -Identify every squeeky door and spot in the floor, avoid them at all costs -Learn to do everything one handed -Learn to poop whi

Birth to 6 Month Must Haves

It was daunting trying to prepare for the care of 3 infants. There was a lot we needed and a lot that we ended up not needing. Here are my essentials for the first 6 months. I bought almost everything from amazon. Sleep -3 Rock n plays (we started in cribs but quickly found out the girls all had reflux and needed to be at an angle to avoid spit up and they slept a lot better) -3 cribs -Halo sleep sacks (better than swaddling because they can't bust out and you can swaddle arms in or out, I would suggest 6, ideally 9) -White noise machine Feeding -3 Bottle warmers (Doc browns are my favorite, they have a timer so you know exactly when the bottles will be done, super handy when all 3 are screaming for a bottle, downside, 30 seconds can feel like a lifetime. We have had these warmers a year and never had any issues) -Anti colic bottles (we hated doc browns, too many parts for me to clean, but I loved mam bottles, ideally 24, but you could get by with 12 minimum) -Muslin s