# @thesharonmoms on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Dc1NalBRTR5
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/70087246-thesharonmoms-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-09-03T16:43:33.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Brit & Sydney Sharon (@thesharonmoms) — https://gondola.cc/thesharonmoms

## Caption

Five months in. Here’s what I know and won’t be moved on.

Scheduling twins is a beautiful idea that doesn’t survive contact with real life. Not when you have three other kids with school pickups and soccer and religious school and playdates. Not when your identical babies are, in fact, two separate people with two completely different hunger cues, wake windows, and opinions about everything. You cannot schedule two humans into being the same person. I never even bothered to try. 

Identical does not mean interchangeable. Same DNA. Completely different nervous systems, rhythms, and ways they want to be held. Benny is not Dash. Dash is not Benny. The moment I started treating them as individuals instead of a unit to manage, everything got easier.

Co-sleeping done safely is nothing to apologize for. Both boys are in our room — sometimes in our bed, sometimes on their floor bed. Always within reach. Proximity and responsiveness in the early months isn’t a habit to break. It’s biology doing exactly what it’s supposed to do.

If leaving the house with your babies still feels scary — that’s okay. I took the twins to the grocery store alone for the first time at four months and it was a genuine milestone. The pressure to “get back out there” before you’re ready is its own kind of harm. You go when you’re ready.

Self care doesn’t have to mean time away from your babies. Mine looks like my village coming to me. A meal made in my kitchen by someone else. Brit taking the big three so I can sit quietly with the boys. Leaving my exclusively breastfed twins for a massage isn’t the self care I’m choosing right now. That’s a complete sentence.

Five months in. Still learning. Dying on every single one of these hills. 🤍

Twin moms — what’s your hill? Drop it below. ↓

#twinmomlife #twinmom #momof5 #parentingwithpurpose #honestmotherhood

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twinmomlife, honestmotherhood, parentingwithpurpose, momof5, twinmom

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