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Twins and a Toddler - The First Four Weeks

 As of today, we have officially survived one month with three under 1.5 years. The R and W are four weeks old, G is a few days away from turning 18 months, and my husband and I are exhausted. Here's how our first four weeks went: Week 1 - What have I done? As it turns out, when you go to the hospital to deliver twins, they actually expect you to eventually take home both babies. I guess this wasn't much of a surprise, considering they expected us to take home G, our singleton, when he was born. Still, both times we had to leave the hospital with our children, I had this feeling of amazement that they were actually letting us walk out of the hospital with these tiny new humans.  When it comes to twins, we had a pretty good start. The boys were born full-term and healthy. Neither one had to spend any time in the NICU, which means that we were a lot more fortunate than most twin parents. We spent just over 48 hours in the hospital after my scheduled C-section. The boys spent a g...