no longer have internet so I am doing my catch up now.
Both babies are now over 10 pounds. They are such good babies. All my
friends and relatives seem amazed that I hold phone conversations and
cook and clean the house. Partly, because Duane lets me sleep for 5
hours when he gets home from work everyday, and partially because the
babies don't have colic.
As soon as we went to powdered formula, Lucas stopped having gas. I
guess the extra water helps him make poopies. :-P I now recognise that
the first week at home with them was so hard because I didn't
understand what their cries meant. I would hold them when they needed
a diaper change, change their diaper when they were hungry, and feed
them when they wanted to be cuddled! But now I speak "grunt" (Lucas)
and "Squirm" (Matilda) and it has made life with newborns much easier.
They stay on a 4 hour schedule, they don't cry without reason, and
are easy to soothe. My only worry is the swings. They are both
addicted to them!
Also, they aren't having any developmental delays for 35 weeks. They
both smiled on schedule and do everything the babycenter updates say
is appropriate for each week. Both smile, both hold their heads up and
like to sit on our laps. They track and follow objects, and they like
to see where sound comes from. We hold their hands, sit them up and
let them study the world.
My main issue now is that they are now alert for long periods of time
and I am a dullard with baby games! I sing only three songs- Old
MacDonald Farm, Itsy Bitsy spider, and The Brady Bunch theme song. Ha!
I am improvising on fairy tales. We just don't get out much to buy
baby things. I sleep as soon as Duane gets home, and he comes straight
home from work. We haven't used a sitter yet because I don't
particularly trust anyone with them. :-P
I think the first couple weeks I was home I screwed up my thyroid. I
only took my medication once or twice a week, and now I feel a bit
rundown and lethargic.
I am at Duanes work with the twins, and then we are going out to dinner as a family.
His boss just came in here, she looked at us and said "I can't believe
how good those babies are. I can't believe it".
OK, maybe they aren't *that* good... maybe I just know what they want
and take care of it. We are implementing attachment parenting as much
as possible, so they never do cry for long. They are never more than 3
feet from one of us 24 hours a day. Whatever it is, screw all those
hateful women who would hear I was pregnant with twins and apologize
and say "Double Trouble". My TWO babies are better than their one
babies ever were apparently, because I actually think I could of
handled triplets as easy as these babies have been. HMPFH!!! Sorry if
I seem like a braggart, but I really got sick of everyone telling me
to anticipate my life being "hell" with twins. Its not been anything
like that at all. Watch if we have a third one- she/he will have colic
for 6 months, LOL.
Lucas and Matilda 8 weeks 1 day
Anyone here doing attachment parenting?
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