I present to you the Jboss Twins

EuroGator

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Congratulations!

I hope you have lots of support and that your wife can get some sleep!
 

gatorkev85

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Sorry it's late boss but congratulations on the twins. You are in for a treat my friend mine are gonna be 4 months on the 18th. You gonna lose a lot of sleep and I mean a lot. I was getting about 3 1/2 a night for the 1st month. It gets better though, my boys are finally sleeping through the night.

Twins are a lot of fun though. I'm happy for you and I know you'll be raising them right. My advice to you is find a diaper subscription and join it will save you money for sure, and sleep when they sleep or you'll get no sleep at all.

Again congratulations you'll love it. Go Gators!!!
 

gatorkev85

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Well done dude! Congratulations, you're in for a wild ride, my friend.

Three pieces of advice regarding diapers. (What I say here may seem confusing now, but will make perfect sense later on, I assure you):

1) Stop biting your nails. I learned this the hard way.

2) Never change a diaper with your eyes closed or while yawning. I also learned this the hard way. (BTW, you may not realize this now, but most of your waking hours for the next few years will be spent either yawning or with your eyes closed.)

3) Diaper Genie. Great idea, right? WRONG. If you don't know what one of these things is, it essentially turns your baby's poo into an endless series of link sausage. You simply drop the disgusting, soiled, smelly, awful diaper into the Genie, close the lid and voilà it disappears into the contraption's 50-ft long plastic bag repository which will coil inside the innards of the device like an elephant's intestinal tract, seemingly never to be heard from again.

That's the attractive part. I used this soul-sucking device for four years before I realized how screwed up my life had become because of it. Even if you're one of those hyper-organized dudes who has everything on a schedule (which I am not), when it comes to the chore of emptying the Diaper Genie (and, by the way, this task always falls on the father), the overpowering stench, the sh!t eating gnats going up your nose, and the gagging that accompanies the effort is almost unbearable. When you lack sleep, lack basic reasoning skills, lack any sense of time and space, as all new fathers do, the accumulation of diapers can go on for weeks without you realizing it. At that point, the weight of the "sausage links" alone makes the task of emptying this monster difficult, and if you don't vomit during the process, consider yourself lucky. Whatsmore, it needs to be cleaned out and sprayed with Lysol every time you dump it. The "odor proof" lid on it is so effective that it traps a volatile and noxious combination of ammonia and methane that becomes embedded in its interior walls.

When I finally realized I'd had it, I threw the God awful thing, nasty sausage links and all into the garbage pile for trash collection. I can only imagine the vermin that tried to get into it that night and the horror they must have discovered. From that point on, I had a stack of plastic Publix bags next to a very small diaper pale. I wrapped the diapers up in the bags and threw them in the pale. When the pale was full, (about every other day), I simply emptied it into a large trash bag for disposal. This could be the most valuable piece of advice you ever get. Go forth and do likewise, my friend. Go forth and do likewise.
This is where you went wrong with the diaper genie my friend, you don't use the stupid snake bag that you have to cut and tie new knots everytime you have to change. Instead you go to Sam's and buy the febreeze 10 gallon garbage bags that come with like 185 and you tie those into the diaper genie ring and refill it every 4 days. Super simple no mess, no more handling the snake and cutting the bag and smelling the odor. You just take the garbage bag out and tie it up. The febreeze seals in the odor.

I highly recommend getting one and doing just what I said. Just youtube how to use garbage bag in diaper genie and you off to the races. It takes me 2 minutes to change it out.
 

gatorkev85

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Finally, after a few months a bed time routine is HUGE. No deviations, same routine, ALWAYS. My boys been sleeping through the night since 3 months. The routine is $$$$$.
This is a great piece of advice. My wife and I were trying to wing it for the 1st month and that got me a lot of sleepless nights. Write out a routine and stick to it asap you'll be thankful you did
 

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2 month old twin pics!
 

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Any pics of mom breast feeding? Want to make sure they have the proper latching.
 

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Awesome...Let the fun begin.

I have 31 year old triplets.

And just had my 8th and 9th Grand Child.
 

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You guys have weathered one heck of a ride already. Kudos to you and your wife for getting them here safely and for ALL you've done taking care of them so far. It isn't easy when they're so young. I don't know how to express "congratulations" and "good on you two" enough. Your wife is like an All American, and you're like a second team All American!

Mrs. GatorAuthor and I have triplet boys, so I may have at least some perspective on where you guys are right now. Some days are tough, but man, you can look forward to soooo many awesome, thrilling, joy-filled, nothing-like-it-in-the-world moments and days in your future. The great times in your future will far outweigh the effort required in the first couple years.

Mine are seniors in high school, and it seems like only yesterday they were in diapers and we were pulling our hair out. I've loved every age (maybe after they were infants), but I sure would love to revisit some of those early years. Before you know it it'll be fun, and it'll only keep getting more so.

Best wishes to you and your beautiful family!
 

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Awesome...Let the fun begin.

I have 31 year old triplets.

And just had my 8th and 9th Grand Child.
I KNEW there was something different about you...........Triplets............I taught a girl that had twin girls and then triplet boys.........and she died last year from a heart attack. Too heavy and little exercise ............all her kids turned out GREAT.............
 

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