At 7 months pregnant I had my baby shower, it was a beautiful day with lots of food, amazing 5 tier cake & my big belly. Like I mentioned in a prior post my baby registry was a big stress, I had been compiling items for 3 months. Putting things on & off the registry; deciding where to register. It was more work than I actually thought it could be (much more than a wedding registry) But do I really need 2 of everything? I kept hearing wow twins, “bogo.”

I registered for 2 of all the major items-swings, cribs, car seats, jumperoos, travel cribs & highchairs. Finding space for all this wasn’t exactly easy either. At one point we barely had any room in our family room to move with all of the babies things. I used 2 of everything except the travel crib. That was something I used for the first month or two & that was it. It’s been at the grandparents house since the twins were 2 months. My babies didn’t sleep well in the travel crib, so we ended up just putting them in their cribs instead.

Try to keep things simple on the registry, babies don’t truly need as much as the parents may. Feeding is a hard thing to predict with twins, before getting pregnant I only thought of a vaginal birth & breastfeeding; having twins definitely opened my mind. I ended up mainly registering on Amazon & PBK for just a few items. Try to only register for items the twins will need for the first 6 months, unless you have endless storage. Gift cards are an amazing option, especially for food delivery services. Those first few months can be hard.

Don’t feel the need to register for everything, Amazon is a lifesaver, I think we had boxes at our house every 2-3 days with something we needed the first few weeks.