Breastfeeding Twins:

Planning and Prioritizing

By Melissa Clark Vickers, IBCLC

Planning and Prioritizing
Once the initial shock of finding out you are carrying twins begins to wear off, it's time to do some serious planning. If you weren't organized before, now is a great time to develop new habits! Once those babies arrive, most of your time will revolve around seeing to their needs. Unfortunately, the rest of the world doesn't stop in the meantime!

Sit down with pencil and paper and list all the things you normally are involved in. Think about your outside commitments like work, school, church, community meetings, etc. What kind of family commitments do you have? Are there other children, or elderly parents/grandparents you normally take care of? What kinds of things do you normally do in a week -- grocery shopping, laundry, meal planning and preparation, time with your partner and family? What about your hobbies?

Once you've made that list, go back through it and assign each activity a number:

1.
These are top priority items that MUST be done, and can ONLY be done by you.
2. These are high priority items, but someone else CAN do them -- maybe not as well as you can, but someone else could get the job done.
3. These are mid-priority items that are high on your "I WANT to do these things" but not so high on "I HAVE to do these things." This is the category for those "time for myself" items.
4. These are low priority items that someone else can do.
5. These are low priority items that ONLY you can do.
6. Why are these even on that list?