Life and Schedule update, v10 (26 months)

I realized that a few things have changed a lot since I last did one of these--over a year ago!--and I wanted to make note before I forget and before even more changes happen. First and most obvious, they walk and run and talk now, ALL THE TIME. 🙂 Their little voices are really cute,...

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...

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,...

Life with Babies Now: Schedule v6 and v7 (8 months)

I think it was around May or so, when the babies were around six months, that their nice schedule of 3-4 45 minute naps a day dissolved. What was good was they started occasionally taking longer naps, sometimes an hour, sometimes an hour and a half, and very occasionally two hours. What was bad was...

Nighttime Baby Playlist! (Schedule update v5) (4ish months)

This latest schedule is not too different from before, but a little more refined, and a lot more regular. Feels a little more settled and permanent. And I hope so, actually, I think it works quite nicely. 730ish--Andy gets babies up, first feeding 900am--nap for 45 minutes 1000am--feeding 1100am--nap for 45 mins 100pm--feeding 200pm--nap for...

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...

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...

Schedule update v2: What We’re Doing Now. (2.5 months)

Babies started sleeping longer at 8 weeks, so for the last three weeks our schedule has changed. They're 11 weeks old now and they eat every 3-4 hours (before, they were pretty regularly eating every 3.5 hours). We now actually look for their cues (rooting, eating their hands, sudden crying)--sometimes they're hungry in 3 hours,...

Feeding twins: Our daily grind. Schedule update v1: (6 weeks)

While in the hospital, the baby nurses made sure that the babies ate every three hours. However, since we depended on someone else coming in, the schedule was pretty fluid, changing times every day. When we first came home, that continued--every feeding every day was different. We were still figuring out how we wanted to...