Swaddles and Pterodactyls

It has been exactly one week since we decided to stop swaddling the twins. Just to explain, because they were so small and had problems with temperature control we had to swaddle them tightly for the first month and after that it was a habit that the little guys demanded prior to falling asleep. About 3 months ago we began to swaddle them with their arms out, we then noticed that they were spending first 15 minutes after lying them down to get out of the swaddle so we took the plunge. The first night they kicked their legs like crazy as if wondering how they had so much movement but then went on to sleep. The first nap, when they would nap, was a little bit more of a fight but they are now sleeping day and night WITHOUT being swaddled!!!! Our little munchkins are growing up.

Dylan has been working on new sounds. Some are normal baby sounds: da da, ba ba, ga ga etc. There is one that Todd and I lovingly (imagine a lot of sarcasm here) call the pterodactyl. It is a HIGH piercing screech that I am sure is destroying all of our hearing especially pour Kiera. As I have told some of you Dylan never developed different cries like Kiera did. He has the same cry for hungry, tired and bored. Now add in screeching/pterodactyl cry. He screeches when he is happy or upset. You can’t tell what is going on unless you are looking at facial expression.

Another development, jealousy! Until 3 weeks ago each baby was so into their own little world where they didn’t notice when one was being held and the other was not, now they know. If they are both on the floor and Dylan is crying, when I pick up Dylan, Kiera looks up at me with this terrible hurt look and immediately starts crying and vice verse. They also do not like to share being held. They know how it is supposed to feel when only one is being held and they DO NOT like being held at the same time by one parent. They want only one baby per adult. I consider myself to be a pretty good mother of multiples but I’m not that good! I have not been able to grow another pair of arms or figure out how to hold them both so that they think only one is being held at a time.