Gear for Babies and Twins, Part 2: For Them

All pregnant ladies want to know: What are the must-haves for babies? When expecting twins, that question is a little more daunting, because two babies are more daunting and more complicated! I've put together a list of the things that we use and like. Hope it will be helpful to anyone else expecting, no matter...

Gear for Babies and Twins, Part 1: For you

All pregnant ladies want to know: What are the must-haves for babies? When expecting twins, that question is a little more daunting, because two babies are more daunting and more complicated! I've put together a list of the things that we use and like. Hope it will be helpful to anyone else expecting, no matter...

Four Months Old!

My dear sweet babies, You're four months old now! I can't believe it. As usual. You're growing well: you both weigh about 14 1/2 pounds, and you're both over 24 inches long. That means in four months you've just about tripled your size! No wonder--you're eating 6 ounces every three hours. We just put you...

Tired.

I am tired today. I'm tired of being tired. I'm tired of staying up late to pump, even though I don't have to stay up as late as I used to. I am REALLY tired of pumping while feeding two babies simultaneously. I hate it, in fact. I'm tired of my butt feeling numb from...

Schedule update, v4 (3-4 months)

Well, just as I suspected, the babies did indeed change their own feeding schedule a few days ago. They happily took 6 ounces at each feeding and were able to wait for the whole three hours to eat again (we'd been giving them 5oz and they were getting hungry for snacks and wanting to eat...

A few practical baby tips

I hate the word 'tips'. (Almost as much as I hate the word 'strategies.') Tips are supposed to be NEW things, that you didn't already know, that can help you. And yet. Have you noticed? Every single article with tips (10 tips to a slimmer you! The 5 best pregnancy tips! 20 tips for teachers!)...

First Scare

Saturday night we were beginning our bedtime routine. Andy was changing E and I was getting M set up. He was laying on a boppy waiting for eating time. I happened to be standing in front of the couch and saw him spit up clear drool. He does that pretty often. But this time something...

Schedule update v3: Current schedule (3.5 months)

Babies already seem to be transitioning themselves yet again, so I wanted to document our recent schedule. It's been a little over two weeks since the babies spontaneously slept through the night. It wasn't a fluke--they are still sleeping well! (There have been two times when one baby woke up in the middle of the...

Assorted Things I’ve Worried About for the past Eleven Months

Vanishing twin syndrome Breaking their in-utero brains by jumping Cooking them improperly because I don't eat meat That they'll have bad teeth or bones later because I don't drink milk (though I eat a lot of other dairy) Messing up something in them because I used benzoyl peroxide That they'd come out with something wrong...

A View of a Room

At night, I creep into our bedroom after my husband and the babies are asleep. The Rock N Plays stand at the end of our bed, two large contraptions holding two small babies. Somehow that view slices into my heart--I spend all day near them and it's only after a few hours away that I...