Pregnancy Journals Recalls Safety Shopping Sleep Site Map Shop. We're talking two car seats, two cribs, two sets of clothes. Never mind the diapers. It's estimated that parents of twins go through 140 or more diapers a week with a set of newborn twins.
Parents expecting multiples have a lot of work to do before their little ones arrive.
But, unlike parents expecting just one baby, these parents need to get to work preparing their homes and the layette earlier, experts say. Pregnancy, Birth and the First Year of Life. They suggest conducting an assessment of your finances, arranging your priorities and starting to buy or borrow items in the third trimester, because, on average, twins arrive early. Given the costs incurred in stocking a twins' nursery, Elizabeth Noble, in her book Having Twins, urges parents expecting twins to be very practical, to buy no-nonsense clothes that are interchangeable and to buy in bulk. She suggests parents keep in mind that if you have a lot of some basic items on hand, the less often you'll have to do laundry.