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started getting red again not quite sure why so we ve stopped cloth diapers on him for now until we can get the rash cleared up conrad got his first fever after his immunizations it was really heart breaking to see him so uncomfortable and feel the heat radiating from his body his temperature was over 100 tylenol seemed to help him though and he was back to his happy self the next day miles has reflux which means he spits up a lot it doesn t look like he s bothered too much by this so we haven t put him on any medications the doctor recommended rice cereal to help cut down on the spit up but my research shows that rice cereal this young may cause problems because miles seems to be doing okay we ve decided to hold off on the rice cereal for now we just have to make sure that there are spit rags strategically placed all around the house and we have to do laundry constantly growing up my babies are growing and changing so fast even though they have already started wearing 3 6 month clothes i didn t realize how big they were until i saw a newborn the other day when i asked how much he weighed he weighed a pound more than miles did at birth and this newborn looked soooo tiny compared to my boys i don t even remember my boys being that small at their 2 month appointment miles weighed over 10 pounds and conrad over 12 conrad has filled out and has the baby fat look big time miles is growing appropriately but is a lean skinny baby they look so different next to each other conrad is the spitting image of his father everyone comments on it miles looks more like me the boys have learned to smile and it just melts my heart every single time and i can actually make conrad smile on demand by singing the abc s to him conrad just loves kicking his feet especially against something like the back of the couch or my hands hmmm sounds familiar he was the one that kicked me most of the time in the womb miles will kick too but tends to move his arms around more he is quick to grab our fingers and hold on for dear life they love the play mat we have that lights up and plays music although they seemed just as enamored with it when the batteries wore out and the lights and music did not work but really their favorite thing is looking at our faces they want to be paid attention to and when they are given attention their faces just light up conrad is a beast when it comes to physical activity he lifted his head super early and actually rolled from his tummy to his back last week miles lags a bit behind in head activity because he has torticollis this is where his neck muscles are a little weak stiff likely due to crowding in the womb since birth he has always tilted his head one direction and while he can lift his head he only turns it so far before turning back at his two month appointment we asked about this obvious problem and the pediatrician recommended physical therapy we re on a waiting list to get an intake appointment because miles is a little behind we are so impressed anytime he lifts his head and turns it he gets lots of cheers from us when that happens they are sleeping longer at night and require less food they used to eat every three hours and have both breast milk and a bottle now their stretches between eating can go 4 5 hours and just a quick breast milk snack dream feed will get them through until the next feed they barely wake up and if they do they ll go right back asleep except sometimes lately conrad has been having a difficult time sleeping at 2 and 4 in the morning it s so nice not having to deal with bottles at night anymore while i desperately wanted them to be on a predictable schedule before i start back to work next week we haven t quite mastered that yet sometimes they wake up earlier than i expect and sometimes they sleep way later i can t predict what they ll do at night my biggest concern is timing their last afternoon feeding so that they can wait to take their evening feeding from me when i get home from work i sometimes get home from work as late as 6 30 and that s generally too late for them i guess we ll just see how it goes when i go back to work and adjust as necessary as far as their personalities they definitely are distinct when we re out and about conrad just has to look at everything he won t easily fall asleep in the stroller because he is so interested in the world around him he loves it when daddy holds him facing out so we re on the hunt for a baby carrier that has that option someone commented the other day that if conrad could walk he d be running around and getting into everything i think we re going to have our hands full with this boy miles on the other hand is much more chill he will quickly fall asleep anytime there is movement in the car or the stroller he s content with relaxing and observing the world around him when he smiles his dimple is highlighted and he looks almost mischievous he might just take over the world one day quietly while his brother is distracting everyone around him pictures the photographer that did our maternity pictures came to our house to do our newborn pictures when the boys were 12 days old i just love how they came out check out the pictures here https ashley vos squarespace com blog seattle twin newborn photography and here s a more recent shot of my happy babies miles left conrad right made with love and science leave a comment posted in uncategorized posted by katherine june 5 2014 no time i am so busy i don t even have time to write this post but i did write this late night email to my parents the other night while breast feeding thought i would copy it into here so that you know i m still alive barely and to try to understand my level of craziness right now twins are no freaking joke i cannot imagine how easy it would be to have just one newborn i do want to say that despite the craziness my boys are amazing i love them so much and i can t wait until i have some time to post pictures for you and descriptions of my ever growing loves my email i m not quite sure how to get sleep and get stuff done that has to get done laundry washing bottles look for and hire a nanny pay bills etc i have spent the last 5 hours holding babies as soon as one falls asleep the other one wakes up and let s not even talk about the 30 minutes of hearing both of them sob and i couldn t help because both just needed me it s 11 at night and i ve been up since 4 probably won t be able to sleep until after midnight because another feeding is about to happen i couldn t even empty the dishwasher today i started washing bottles hours ago but the sink is still full i eat crap and feel like it i eat a protein bar for breakfast get fast food for lunch most days and either skip dinner or eat a can of beefaroni i fill in the gaps with lactation cookies this is not good for me or my milk supply but i don t have time for anything else and don t tell me robb needs to help more because he is maxed out as well trust me we are both all in there is no time left i folded one basket of laundry today i left the other 2 baskets alone sent a message to only two potential nannies and picked up a nursing pillow that s it that s what i ve managed and i ve been up forever no point to this email i guess but when you tell me to sleep i am not exaggerating when i say i can t 1 comment posted in uncategorized posted by katherine april 21 2014 they re here birth story i went in to the hospital at the 38 week mark for my scheduled induction on 4 10 14 i took my last pregnant pictures that morning we checked in at 1pm we did four rounds of cytotek over the next several hours and through the night i felt an occasional small contraction but nothing ever really got going my most uncomfortable moments were when the babies were being monitored during the nsts i couldn t walk nearly as much as i would ve liked because of all the monitoring required and i hated lying in bed for so long and trying not to move too much so we wouldn t lose the babies positions in the early morning hours of 4 11 14 baby a s heart rate decelerated a few times so then i had to be on the monitors constantly and could only come off of them to go to the bathroom after the shift change around 7 00 am the doctor checked my cervix it was so far back and her checking it caused so much pain that she couldn t even really figure out if i had dilated at all because of the lack of cervix change we couldn t reach my water to break it she said that she didn t want to put me on pitocin yet because they were worried about how baby a might react to that stronger drug they said they would keep me on the monitors for a couple of hours to see how baby a was doing but i might need to prepare for a c section a few hours later i was told that baby a was looking good and there had been no decelerations by this time i was at the hospital for about 24 hours with no progress i was given the option to have a c section that afternoon if i wanted to be done with the process but i could also try pitocin and see how the babies tolerated it this was a really tough decision finally i decided i wanted to try pitocin my goal was a natural childbirth and i wanted to still give my body a chance to attempt it they got me started in the afternoon of 4 11 14 giving me higher and higher doses every 30 minutes or so i had to be on the monitors the whole time but changed position every 30 minutes when the nurse came in to administer the next round of pitocin in the early evening i did feel contractions and would moan a little through them but overall they weren t too bad as the evening wore on i still hadn t made much progress and it was decided to turn the pitocin level down some so i could try to get some sleep on 4 12 14 the next doctor on call came to speak with me he tried checking my cervix and i had the same problem that i did before it was so high that the cervix check was painful and i begged him to stop he told me that i had a couple of options at this point first option was to have a c section we d been trying to induce labor for two days and nothing was happening second option was to go home and come in again next week to try inducing labor again that option really surprised robb and i the doctor said the babies had tolerated the pitocin really well and that it would be perfectly reasonable to give my body a break and come back later if natural childbirth was that important to me robb and i agreed pretty quickly that it was time to do the c section we d been at the hospital for two days while it was important for me to try to get a natural childbirth i knew my chances with induction and with twins was smaller at that point i had done everything i could and tried the drugs that were available to get these children to come vaginally we were exhausted we couldn t imagine leaving the hospital without our children and we felt that it was very likely that if we came back the following week for another induction the results would probably be the same hours of induction with no progress after we decided on the c section everything started happening quickly we signed consents met with doctors got the low down from the nurses etc i walked to the surgery room and was given a spinal rather than an epidural the anesthesiologist was wonderful and was a real calming influencing and he generously took our camera from robb and took a ton of beautiful pictures during the procedure seriously wonderful pictures that i m so grateful to have during the procedure i was freaking out a little bit because of how surreal it all was and the strange way my body felt feeling numb to pain but feeling my body being tugged all of a sudden baby a was born at 12 14 pm and i heard them say it s a boy i remember thinking wow a boy everyone thought baby a was a girl then only 20 seconds later still at 12 14 they said it s another boy at that point i started crying my two children were safely born baby a and baby b were both here and were both boys i wasn t really aware of it at the time but baby a needed some oxygen so they brought baby b over to robb to hold first after baby a was deemed healthy robb got to hold him for awhile as well i got to look at my babies while they started piecing me back together first family photo robb and the babies went to the recovery room and i followed shortly after everyone knew how important skin to skin time and breastfeeding was for me so there was a team of nurses there to help bring the babies to me hold them up to my breasts and complete our first tandem feeding i was just in awe that they were there feeding from me and were such champs at it at some point i threw up and later in the day i threw up a couple of more times i guess i was pretty out of it because of the anti nausea and pain drugs they gave me i was told i passed out for awhile breastfeeding team i really don t remember much of their first 12 hours of life which bums me out but i do remember talking about names with robb in the early evening we had come to the hospital with a list of several names for each sex and wanted to see what the babies looked like before deciding on their final names robb and i are so glad that we did that because the boys do look so different from one another and their names would not fit on anyone other than themselves i put the punctuation in their names so they re not as searchable from now on i will only refer to them by their first names or first initials so i m pleased to introduce baby a mil es fran klin 4 12 14 at 12 14 pm 5 pounds 15 ounces miles middle name is to honor my dad frank miles baby b conr ad g eorge 4 12 14 at 12 14 pm 7 pounds 4 ounces conrad s middle name is to honor my grandfather george we spent the next couple of the days in the hospital as i recovered from my c section we checked out monday a little before noon almost 4 full days after we first checked in to be induced as of today they are 9 days old eventually i will post again about the cluster feeding throughout the first few nights the days where i was functioning on less than 2 hours of sleep due to the constant feeding the current days where i m getting a little more sleep but not nearly enough the challenges of breastfeeding their first doctor s appointments the joys of holding them in my arms and kissing them the excitement of their firsts their first tummy time session first walk around the block the love i feel when i witness their daddy fall completely and instantly in love with them over and over again but i have a feeling my posts will be a lot less frequent in the next few weeks because this is hard draining and completely rewarding work hopefully i can get on again soon because the world needs to see more pictures of my sweet boys i can t believe i m the mother of two boys i never thought of myself as a boy mom and now i am one going home outfits conrad left miles right five days old conrad left miles right first easter 8 days old conrad left miles right 5 comments 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