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Multiples Are NOT A Freakshow 2007-03-13 21:16:53 The way some people behave when they see twins or triplets boggles the mind. What happened to basic courtesy? People behaving like this is why I don’t make eye contact in public anymore.
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The Perfect Mother 2007-03-13 20:23:35 Somewhere out there is the perfect mother.
She never ate bacon, or hot dogs, or bagels with lox during her pregnancy. She birthed naturally - none of this c-section or epidural stuff for her - and it was an easy labor. Or maybe it was hard but she slogged through 49 hours of back labor at home in her tub.
She put her baby right to the breast and he latched on and began to suckle, no problem. Or her baby was in the NICU and she pumped every hour for 3 months to make sure he got milk.
Her babies slept through the night at 8 weeks without a fuss. Or, she tends to their needs during the night without a complaint, even when her child is up every hour on the hour for no apparent reason. No matter how many times she has been up at night, her hair and nails are done. After all, how can you feel your best when you don’t look put together?
Obviously, she cloth diapers, makes her own baby food, uses only organics, doesn’t own a television and plans educational yet fun activities Read more:Perfect
Friday Twinny Question - Bedtime 2007-03-16 10:00:24 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. Read more:Friday
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Poor Planning 2007-03-15 17:38:28 These are the things that would have made yesterday’s trip to the mall easier:
Remembering to bring clean cloth diapers.
Packing a spare outfit in case of blowouts.
Restocking my emergency spare disposable diaper stash more often so ensure that they aren’t size 1 when we are in size 3.
Bringing the Maya Wrap in from the car in case someone decided that he was going to scream in full meltdown mode unless I held him.
Bringing a water bottle.
Attaching some toys to the stoller.
Trying to try on swimsuits whie holding a crying child? Comedy gold, I tell you. Comedy gold. I am a little perlexed, however, that someone thought they were “cute” when J. was screaming his head off and F. was trying to climb, naked and screaming, off of the changing table. It was, I assure you, not their cutest moment.
Weekend Blog Round Up 2007-03-17 10:00:37 HAPPY ST. PATRICK’S DAY.
Melanie over at Catholic Mom muses on the futility of plans when you have small children and the sweetness of appreciating each day.
The cuteness at I Got Two, Babe actually hurts.
A.P. at Two Many Babies lists the GOOD things about a twin pregnancy, such as getting to eat all the ice cream you want.
Eva writes about the day her twins started daycare. Read more:Weekend Blog Round
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Things You Don’t Want to Hear Your Husband Say 2007-03-20 10:00:14 I’ll fill in the hole in the wall over the course of the week.
Hole. Hole! What hole? There isn’t a hole. When you went downstairs, there wasn’t a hole in the wall. Why is there a hole in the wall? Read more:Husband
My Love Affair with Co-Sleeping 2007-03-22 10:00:20 Co-sleeping and I didn’t get along at first. There was all the chuffing and gurgling that kept me awake, along with the hysterical worry on my part that silence meant death. After a brief, 6-week fling co-sleeping and I called it quits. The Arms-Reach Co-Sleeper never was that comfortable anyway, or so it seemed, and everyone was happier after our break up.
Then the four-month sleep regression came along. I turned back to co-sleeping, even though our earlier relationship had failed. I made some changes. I’d grown. I’d worked on myself and thought I was ready for a more serious commitment. Plus, I was desperate. Really, really desperate. So desperate I plopped a baby in the middle of the bed and just hauled her wakeful self down to my boob whenever she squalled.
If you can nurse lying on your side, co-sleeping may well be the most wonderful thing in the world. I can nurse sleeping. I can wake up just enough to pull a baby to the vague vicinity of my Read more:Affair
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What Color IS Her Hair? 2007-03-21 10:00:43 What color is her hair? Depending on the light it looks brown, sandy blond, red, reddish brown, reddish blond. All I can say for sure is that her hair isn’t black. Read more:Color
Question 2007-03-23 10:00:56 When does the “I want to eat the electrical cords” phase end? Anyone? Read more:Question
Weekend Blog Round Up 2007-03-25 23:27:27 I’ve been on vacation. All last week I was down in Florida on a family vacation with two babies, two grandmothers, a grandfather, an aunt, a husband, a stop to visit a great-grand mother and me. I am either crazy or brave. Or both. Once I get the laundry done, the blogs read, the mail sorted and so on I’ll espouse on the glorious adventure that is flying with infant twins.
I “pre-posted” stuff for the week, and am rather curious - did it all show up at once or did each post arrive on it’s own day, the way it was supposed to?
So…though I have not made it through all the blogs - there are over 100 posts in my reader so it’s going to take me a while - here is a brief smattering of last week in twin blogdom.
Cass over at Many a Mile to Go is trying to figure out what to do about night waking. This is a dilemna I know well; do you wake baby #2 to feed after baby #1 gets up, or go back to bed yourself and hope for a long stretch of sleep? Read more:Weekend
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We Have Standing 2007-03-27 11:00:49 I was really very tired. The kids didn’t sleep well on vacation because of the different routine and different beds. We had been on an airplane most of the day - at the kids bedtime we were still in Atlanta. J. screamed most of the drive from the airport to the house. I can’t say that I blame him; if I weren’t a civilized, mature adult I probably would have been crying from exhaustion too.
We get to the house, bring the kids inside, get their diapers changed, get them into PJs. It is about one in the morning. I put J., apparently asleep, to bed and nurse F. J. is not asleep, and starts crying a “don’t leave me alone in here, I’m tired and cranky and I WANT MY MOMMY NOW NOW NOW NOW NOW” cry. I finish with F. I put her in her crib. I turn to look at J. Sure enough, he is standing in his crib, holding on to the top railing, leaning forward, screaming.
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Vacation Videos 2007-03-26 16:59:44 F. shares her hatred of hats.
F. goes in the pool with Daddy.
F. and J. play on the beach (long). Read more:Vacation
Vacation Photos #1 2007-03-26 16:45:10 I mostly used film, so I have to wait to get those developed. However, here are two shots from the digital camera.
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Flying with Twins 2007-03-29 01:26:41 We checked 4 bags. We carried the car seats, two diaper bags (later consolidated into one), a purse and the babies. We brought a single stroller and a wrap. Have I ever told you that I am insane?
I discovered a major difference between New England and the South. In New England people watch you struggle with all that stuff. In the South they offer to help. However, all in all it wasn’t bad. We survived with sanity intact and with very few tears. We did follow Emmie’s advice at Better Make it a Double (which should be required reading for twin mothers flying with kids) on “cuting them up” and I made sure they looked matching and adorable for every flight. (She has more tips here.)
I did learn a number of things about how to make this easier next time. Next time I will use the double stroller. Sure, it is expensive and I will live in fear of the baggage handlers jumping up and down on it in vengeful glee, but being able to push both babies without the Read more:Flying
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Video Retrospective of January - March 2007-03-28 17:09:51 How’s that for a catchy title? I’ve put together video clips from January
through March
, including two clips you’ve never seen of J. trying to climb onto the landing and F. in the yard.
The Girl Knows What She Wants 2007-03-28 00:28:07 This afternoon F. was fussing, and I asked her, “Do you want tissy,” tissy being our cute word for breast-feeding.* She got a big grin on her face. I said and gestured “come here” and she scooted across the floor to me.
Now, I am sure they’ve both understood us for a while, but this was the first time either has clearly demonstrated comprehension via a specific response. I am so charmed that her first reaction to speech that can’t be attributed to random chance was regarding breast-feeding. That certainly makes those first weeks of breast-feeding hell worth it. This is a girl who likes nursing.
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* It’s kind of like titty only less awkward to have a child say in public. Read more:She Wants
“Better Than Mango, Even” 2007-03-29 20:16:15 I plan to do what is called “child-led weaning” in which you allow the child to nurse until they don’t want to anymore. I suspect this is going to weird people out. I’ve already gotten two “you’re STILL breastfeeding” comments, and it hasn’t even been a year yet. The woman in this video, who nursed her first for five years and is still nursing her second at seven, has, I suspect, heard more than two comments.
The American Academy of Pediatrics advises nursing until at least a year, and as long thereafter as is mutually desired. The World Health Organization recommends two years. The US Surgeon General has said it is a lucky baby who gets to nurse two years.
There are a lot of benefits to extended nursing.
Extended breastfeeding has been linked to higher IQs.
The immunological benefits of breastmilk continue; there is no magic age at which it “expires”. Available data shows that breastfeeding continues to be a sourc Read more:Mango
Contest 2007-03-31 22:38:05 Dyson is offering a free vacuum over at 5 Minutes for Mom. Go. Enter. Who doesn’t want a new vacuum.
Does the fact that I care about this even the tiniest little bit show that I am old and lame? Read more:Contest
Weekend Blog Round Up 2007-03-31 11:00:15 A.P. is under house arrest, otherwise known as “stop working you crazy woman and relax - you’re pregnant with twins for goodness sakes!”
Shannon at Stream of Consciousness has more gorgeous photos up.
Melanie at Our Lady of Tuscany Springs has survived the first 6 months.
Have you ever noticed that (some) men seem to get sick whenever anyone else is indisposed? Swistle has found the perfect loophole in her marriage vows after dealing with a sick husband while pregnant. How DO people manage to care for twins while being pregnant? When I was pregnant I could barely drag my tired self from the bed to the bathroom.
This one has nothing to do with multiples, but I thought everyone would enjoy these 75 Reasons to Have a Child. Read more:Weekend
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Bath Photos 2007-03-30 18:23:41 Yes, I promise not to show these to your prom dates. Of course, if they Google them I guess you’re screwed.
Can everyone tell which baby is which?
Friday Twinny Question - Routine 2007-03-30 17:03:31 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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