What It Means to Have Two Babies at the Same Time

Only one pregnancy but two babies! One pregnancy but a lot more risk, worry, and monitoring. Both mom and dad get to hold and hug a baby. No jealousy. If multiple visitors come over, there are two babies to hold and snuggle. Babies all around! Every time I give one baby a big hug, I...

The Mama Matters

I'm in a lot of online groups, and many of them revolve around parenting or babies/kids. Often there are posts from moms who are exhausted and frazzled and emotional. I never have much actual advice, but I like to chime in and say something like, "Your mental health and sanity is really important. You matter...

Things I still think about, six months later

I wrote this over a year ago, when my babies were only a few months old. I never published it at the time partly because I wasn't sure how it would be received--I never read  about these kinds of opinions and experiences. And partly because after I wrote this, I realized that I felt a...

Things Right Now

I have mentioned the hugging in a couple other posts. But seriously. It is the best thing. Especially when I pick them up at daycare: when they see me, they get this big smile, walk over to me, and put their arms around me. * Babies have started getting into our trash cans. They know...

Life and schedule update v9 (25 months)

The Sunday before their first birthday (late November), the babies dropped their morning nap. They stayed up until 12 or 1230 and then crashed. I was like, okay, they're down to one nap a day now! It took a few weeks of being very cranky in the late afternoon, but only occasionally taking what we...

Merry Christmas!

Tons of photos - no words really necessary. 🙂  

First Birthday Party

At first we weren't going to do anything for the twins' first birthday. See, we still don't know that many people here, and their birthday falls near Thanksgiving, when a lot of people leave town, plus I didn't want to plan a "thing" or even have an official "to-do." Plus of course, the babies don't...

Second Haircuts

After the babies turned eleven months old, they had some seriously shagadelic hair going on. It was getting ridiculous, so I bit the bullet and booked for their second ever haircuts.  After the fiasco last time, I decided to do the haircuts on a day our nanny was here, so that she could go with...

Intentions

One of the great things about a very tiny baby is that you have explicit permission to do whatever works. Anything that gets you through the day, anything that gets that baby to sleep or stay calm, DO IT! Guilt-free! Safe in the knowledge that you are helping your baby be happy and healthy! It's...

Life Right Now (Schedule update v8) (11 months)

In a word: Tired. (That's us, though.) Around the end of October or so, I guess around when they turned 11 months old, the babies ended up changing their routine in an important way--they basically dropped two feedings. We've also changed their sleep routine a little. And naps are in the process of changing too,...