PokerPeaker writes: How about a blog entry on how your twins interact with each other at their age now. Do they play together? Do they know each other? Are they anxious when they are apart?
As a picture is worth 1,000 sleep-deprived incoherent words, I offer this to answer you:
Not on Fire, responding to Multiples are NOT a Freakshow, asked:
I had two singletons, so I know that people want to acknowledge new babies. I read this and I want to know is there a correct response? Should we ignore new babies, single or otherwise? I mean, what could one say that would be appropriate?
For me, I know that I hate being asked about fertility treatments. Until such time as I can ask someone what position she was in when she conceived her children, I don’t see why it is OK to ask me how I conceived mine. I’m also not a big fan of “double trouble.” I mean, who wants a total stranger to announce that she considers one’s children “trouble”? Touchers bother me; I don’t know where their hands have been and it generally isn’t acceptable in our society to touch people. Finally, blocking the stroller and preventing me from doing whatever it is I am trying to do because someone “just has to see those babies” ju
Eva writes:
Do you really keep both of them in the bed all night? Does your husband wake up to help shuffle babies? Do you think they nurse more often because they’re in bed with you? Do you think they sleep as soundly with you as in the crib? Do they ever thrash or hit or kick or scratch each other in the night? Are you worried at all about eventually (say, by the teen years) transitioning them back out?
No, I don’t keep both in bed; we only have a queen and it is much too crowded for two adults, two babies and a cat. Who gets to be in bed alternates depending on who is being the fussiest. When we were on vacation they were both in the bed in the king sized bed in the hotel we stayed at one night, and it was grand. Lots of room made that ideal. However, we aren’t buying a new bed.
B is pretty much useless at night, so I let him sleep most of the time.
I do think that whoever is in bed with me ends up eating more often because I just feed that one at the sli
I cannot remember who asked what the current daily routine is like because I suck. No, really, my brain is like a sieve. Or, to continue the original metaphor, my brain is a vacuum. Sure, it may collect all sorts of crap, but it all gets jumbled together into a mess so you can’t find what you want, such as who asked what the daily routine is like these days.
This is, of course, a paradigm, a model, a sample. No day is ever actually like this. Something goes kaflooey (a technical term) somewhere along the line. That that changes from day to day is what provides variety in my life.
8:00 - Kids get up. I change their diapers, nurse them, and change them out of their PJs.
8:45 - I leave them in the childproofed-within-an-inch-of-their-lives-nursery and go downstairs to get breakfast. After I eat I go back upstairs and play with the kids, read my email, take photos, make the bed, fold the laundry, clean anything upstairs that has been bugging me and check my rss feeds.
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Casey writes:
What time do the babes go to bed? I’m wondering if I should make a cube of solids as an addition to bedtime routine.
The evening schedule, in theory, goes thus as we sit here at 8 months:
6:00 - B. gets home
6:30 - Dinner. The babies sit in their high chairs and eat with us. Right now they are up to 2 - 3 cubes (ounces) of solids each. F. also feeds herself slices of avocado and banana as well as her “teething biscuit”.
7:00 - B. takes the babies upstairs and plays with them in their nursery while I clean up dinner and get a baby break.
8:00 - One baby gets a bath. Then both are changed into PJs and a sleep sack and I nurse them down.
I don’t think the addition of the solids has really helped the sleeping issues (or hurt them), though I have heard that for some babies solids right before bed actually makes getting them down harder.
from Eva, my last unanswered twinny question*
How is the solid food thing going? What do the kids like/not like? Do you enjoy doing it? I confess I’m a bit torn because it just seems like one more thing to take up time during the day, but my husband thinks it’ll be fun. Are you making your own or doing jars?
I just added a second solid feeding during the day, so we are now up to two, one in the early afternoon and one with dinner. It seems to be going pretty well, though I do miss the mustardy breast milk poop. Breast milk poop looks rather like an expensive French mustard. Solid food poop is, umm, nothing like expensive mustard. Let’s just leave it at that.
At night we put them in the high chairs and each feed one baby. During the afternoon I have been sitting on the floor, holding F. on my lap and putting J. on the floor in front of me. I was going to feed them each seperately, but James crawled up and opened his mouth, so I went with it.
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Kat asked:
Don’t know if this has already been asked, but how many diapers do you go through a day? And what’s your diapering routine like?
I have 21 Kissaluvs and 2 Swaddlebees, and I usually still have about 6 clean diapers when the laundry is done. I have 8 Imse Vimse covers, and I am usually on the last clean one when the laundry is ready.
At night each baby goes into a Swaddlebee “one size” with an extra terry cloth insert. After much experimentation I discovered that that was the magic combination that prevented night leaks.
In the morning I change them out of the Swaddlebees and into a Kissavluv. I always use a new cover in the morning to start the day out. I put a flushable liner in the diapers so that poop can be lifted out and flushed; I cannot sing the praises of the flushable liner highly enough. Oh, glorious liner, you keep me from having to manhandle excrement. Oh, wonderous liner, you can be tossed in the wash if the baby has only peed.
