My girls are 7weeks old tomorrow. I am currently laying on the couch all snuggled up with DD1 while DD2 is sleeping in her cot. This morning I took DD2 to the supermarket while DD1 stayed home with DH. I have just realised this is the first 'individual' time I have spent with each girl. Life is such a blur of feeding, sleeping, 8 million nappy changes as well as looking after DS etc.

Do you manage to spend time alone with each twin? The supermarket today was fantastic - did not get stopped numerous times with the 'Oh twins! My neighbours cousins friend is a twin'...

it's very rare that we will spend time alone with our twins, occasionally one will wake or go down after the other so we have a little time alone with them then, but otherwise no they are always together. We do spend time with them without ds1 though as he goes to school 3 days a week and occasionally goes out with his Gran.

I try to get as much time as possible with each baby. I'll take 1 to the shop while DH has the other 2, or spend time with 1 while the other 2 sleep etc. I thought we'd get less with each one than we actually do.

I work from home while my 3 girls are in daycare 3 days per week.

While my DD1 has had plenty of 1-on-1 time with us, our twin DDs have been together all the time and really I've only had 1-on-1 time when one has been sick.

Luckily, I am able to work anytime, so long as tasks are completed by the deadline. My DH and I decided to drop a daycare day for each of our DDs so that one has me exclusively for one whole day a week, while the other 2 are at daycare.

It has been fabulous, especially for DD1! I think it has also been helpful in setting boundaries for the twins when out, as it is much easier to give a bit of independance when you only have to chase after 1 at a time!

My work is a bit of a juggle to get done at times, but am taking advantage of the daytime naps, too.

Best parenting decision I've made recently!

When one wakes earlier I tend to spend a bit of time (this tends to rotate), but I think it is something I am going to make more of an effort to coordinate more of!

Ours are 7 months and we also have a 3yo. Like other PPs have said, the twins mostly get one on one time if their naps get out of synch. We have the huge luxury of both of us being home at the moment, so the babies do also usually get to feed as one on one time (Ms J bottlefeeds with her dad and I breastfeed Mr P).

I have been thinking about it a lot lately. I usually put them down to play together in the same space. Ms J is getting very mobile, while Mr P is still a (gorgeous) lump. So Ms J torments him quite a bit and he can't defend himself. I've been thinking about whether I should divvy them up a bit to stop this, but that would make them very hard to supervise, and ms J is getting an early start on separation anxiety and freaks out when I leave the room!

To be honest, my main concern is the 3yo getting enough one on one time with me. Her dad is much better at this than I am.

More often than not my babies will sleep at different times during the day. They are nearly 9 months old and it's always been like this - I reckon they do it on purpose so they get individual time with Mummy.

I can manipulate their sleeping times and make them sleep together but mostly I just leave it and let them do their own thing. It often means I have one baby or the other awake with me all day but I really don't mind. Once every few weeks I will take one of them out on their own while Daddy has time at home with the other. It's really nice!

I take mine out to do the groceries and things like that by themselves occasionally, but to be honest, it's not easy.

It breaks my heart because the one being left behind with dada is usually really upset as he/she is not going out.

But I do it. And I really enjoy the 1 on 1 time with each of them.

I love taking 1 out on their own, or 1 with eldest DD! The other day i took DD1 and one of the babies, and at the end she said 'why didn't anyone talk to us today Mummy?' clearly we get stopped quite often when it's all of them together LOL.

i didn't start sending individual time with them until they were much older, after 1y.o but still not that much. But now we regularly have individual time. It's important and it's nice.

I too didn't start individual time until they were older. Around 2 ish. One afternoon i'd take DD1 and DH would take DD2 then the next day we'd swap. Didn't have to be anything major. Might do craft or grab arvo tea and go to the park etc.... Still do now many years later the will take turns going to help Dad out at work or i'll organise separate play dates.

Good on you! It is so important for twins to be allowed to have their own time and I think equally as important for mum's and dad's.

We did this with our twins from the time I stopped breastfeeding and they are now 4 and still give them one on one time each weekend.

I love it and I believe it has strengthened my relationship with each of them.

Good luck and enjoy the ride!