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I finally put an end to one of the biggest dilemmas for expecting parents — to crib or not to crib.
For those of you who haven't joined the baby club yet, let me first tell you this: A crib is not just any piece of ordinary wooden furniture. Believe it or not, it's a potential lifesaver for moms and dads who'd much rather get a good night sleep than wake up every hour or two with a crying baby sleeping in the same bed.
So why don't all parents take the easy road and go with a crib?
Well, there's the whole attachment parenting philosophy where parents believe sleeping together creates a super tight parent-child connection that one can never again experience later in life.
There are supposedly about a dozen other arguable benefits, but I won't get into them since I am a crib believer.
Since when? Since last weekend.
After talking to all my mom friends and doing about a week's worth of online research, my husband and I decided that there's no way we're going to keep two sensitive infants in our not-big-enough-for-four-people queen size bed.
If I had a singleton, I'd probably consider co-sleeping, just like many other Asian parents. But that's not the case for us, so off to our local IKEA we went for an exciting day of crib shopping.
Boy, were there a lot of pregnant ladies out shopping that Saturday.
IKEA does have a good selection of economical children's merchandise — in other words, cheap baby stuff — so it was no surprise to see eager moms-to-be looking for bargain deals.
It was also the first day my husband and I got a reality check that we're having twins.
While other couples leisurely picked out a crib and mattress of their choice and carried the boxes in their cart with ease, here we were, or more accurately, here my husband was struggling with two cribs, two mattresses and two of basically everything else necessary to set up the beds.
Everything stuffed in the giant cart had to add up to at least 80 kilograms.
Unfortunately, I couldn't help due to doctor's orders not to carry heavy objects. So I just waited at the long check-out line to beat the crowd, watching my husband sweating to steer an overstuffed cart from afar.
I must say, it was interestingly an emotional moment. I thought to myself, "Ah, this is the beginning of twin parenthood."
On the way back home, our couple had a heated discussion on how to most efficiently arrange the beds in the nursery.
Of course, no agreement was met right away. So as of now, one crib is assembled and set up in a temporary spot, while the other one is still boxed up and shoved in the corner.
The nursery is still a big mess and there's tons of work left to do, but resolving the big crib question is a major item checked off from my long to-do list.
More details on how we resolved the crib arrangement situation will come in a later entry. Trust me, fitting two cribs in a small bedroom requires more than creativity.
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