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― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Saturday, 11 November 2006 23:38 (nineteen years ago)

Rufus IS a lot of fun, and someday he will realize how AMAZINGLY FABULOUS it is to go to bed!

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Saturday, 11 November 2006 23:40 (nineteen years ago)

When DOES that happen? 16, 17?

― luna (luna.c), Sunday, 12 November 2006 00:03 (nineteen years ago)

It's never fabulous to go to bed, but they do find out how enjoyable it is to go to bed at 4 a.m. and then sleep 20 hours straight.

― Django Blowhardt (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 12 November 2006 00:09 (nineteen years ago)

I'll take it.

― luna (luna.c), Sunday, 12 November 2006 00:15 (nineteen years ago)

Except, you know, on a school night.

Crap.

― luna (luna.c), Sunday, 12 November 2006 00:16 (nineteen years ago)

I love my bed.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Sunday, 12 November 2006 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

scott, you have one cute kid! but i didn't need to say that, you already knew that and so does beth. but, yeah, beth, your kid is equally KAH YOUTH!

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Sunday, 12 November 2006 22:59 (nineteen years ago)

New dress, knitted by grandmother:

http://static.flickr.com/104/295257678_0154bedaa2.jpg

Proud dad:

http://static.flickr.com/115/295257680_69e65a2c5d.jpg

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Monday, 13 November 2006 08:34 (nineteen years ago)

those curls are INSANE. mr teeny has an arab-fro and we were both sure we'd have a curly-headed kid but no!

http://static.flickr.com/120/296435483_25113e874f.jpg

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 13 November 2006 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

hee!

― sunny successor agrees: gay dad always trumps slutty mom (katharine), Monday, 13 November 2006 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

Scary Halloween baby!

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Monday, 13 November 2006 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

oh teeny, that is now my favourite pic of him!

that knitted dress is supercute!

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Monday, 13 November 2006 16:40 (nineteen years ago)

What a lovely dress, and look at that face! She's just lovely.

Louis has such pretty eyes!

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 13 November 2006 16:54 (nineteen years ago)

Joining this thread... !!!

We just had twins! After 24 hours of labor, my wife had to get a C-section, which was a bummer. But, all disappointment evaporated when we saw these cute little guys. They are identical: Owen and Benjamin.

http://static.flickr.com/101/294171192_0be1af2c24.jpg

― schwantz (schwantz), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 18:36 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, bless 'em! Congratulations!

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 18:40 (nineteen years ago)

Congratulations! Heh, one of my nephews is named Benjamin Owen.

― Django Blowhardt (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 19:15 (nineteen years ago)

The one on the left looks like my brother. Who is 32. The one on the right looks like a Culkin. They both look adorable.

Edith is very much her father's daughter, I think.

Louis = BEST PHOTO EVER!

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

Teeny, it may or may not happen, but don't be too surprised if Louis hits puberty and his hair suddenly develops some curls.

― Django Blowhardt (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 19:21 (nineteen years ago)

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Thursday, 16 November 2006 08:07 (nineteen years ago)

shit O hit reply. :-) twins! yay!!!! :-)

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Thursday, 16 November 2006 08:07 (nineteen years ago)

Lovely twins.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Thursday, 16 November 2006 09:26 (nineteen years ago)

Lovely, lovely :)

I'm very envious - I would have loved to have had twins.

― C J (C J), Thursday, 16 November 2006 10:49 (nineteen years ago)

ilxors produce such cute offspring

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 16 November 2006 11:01 (nineteen years ago)

I just stopped breastfeeding. I do feel a *tinge* of guilt but on the other hand I just felt that I and Ophelia were ready. I breastfed for ten months (or rather juuuust under ten m) so it's not like I neglected her. ;-) (Note: I'm joking as I don't consider women giving bottles instead of the breast as neglecting one's baby... That sentence is badly constructed... Bah.)

Twins+breastfeeding: how does one do it? I couldn't imagine being able to breastfeed twins.

http://static.flickr.com/108/298059966_7864d6f3b2.jpg?v=1163598846

I love this picture.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Thursday, 16 November 2006 11:08 (nineteen years ago)

awwww...twinies! CONGRATS.

is there a history of twins in either of your families?

also, how are you going to tell them apart? get ready for teen twin switch hijinx!

O is so beautiful. lil arrow ears.

― sunny successor agrees: gay dad always trumps slutty mom (katharine), Thursday, 16 November 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

identical twins are totally random happenings, it's fraternal twins that run in families. also CONGRATS AND GOOD LUCK. I cannot imagine dealing with two at once. I can't imagine having a second, frankly, but then again I couldn't imagine having the first! :)

I don't see breastfeeding ending anytime soon for us, Lou is still nursing every couple of hours, which is fine by me.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 16 November 2006 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

Well, they are our first kids, so we don't really know anything "easier." I hear that twins get a bit easier as they get to be about 6-12 months, as they start to hang out together and entertain each other. My wife is breastfeeding them simultaneously with the help of this big pillow thing. We've had to supplement with a bit of formula while waiting for the milk to come in, but this period seems to be nearly over. Most of the doctors say we'll probably end up having to use some formula, if only to give my poor wife a break once in a while.

The Culkin comment is spot-on. Ben looks very Culkinian.

More photos here.

― schwantz (schwantz), Thursday, 16 November 2006 17:25 (nineteen years ago)

Beth, is that the car that had a tree on it?

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Thursday, 16 November 2006 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

Yep. I bashed the roof back up with a sledgehammer to the inside and drove it for a few more months until my kids' embarassment forced me to get a new car.
Speaking of embarassment, my older son demanded that I remove all baby pictures of him from my photobucket page. Hence the blanks upthread. Pretty silly, considering what HE posts on his MySpace page.
Twins!
My father's first wife, the mother of some of my half-sibs, had triplets—a set of identical twin girls AND a boy. One of the girls died shortly after birth. This was 58 years ago. These days that baby would probably have made it. My sister says "I wonder sometimes if I died and she's me."

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Thursday, 16 November 2006 19:23 (nineteen years ago)

Woha, David, I'm totally in AWE of your wife breastfeeding twins! I already nagged/complained and moaned (as you can see in the beginning of this thread) and I was only feeding ONE baby.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Thursday, 16 November 2006 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yeah, I added you as a contact on my flickr account. :-)

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Thursday, 16 November 2006 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

Ok, I'm gonna shut up after this (yeah right) but ah damn it those pictures are so... tear-inducingly fantastic. I love seeing them seeing together in a crib! I think it must be such a great thing to have a twinbrother (or sister) as you're never alone RIGHT from the start.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Thursday, 16 November 2006 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

I think right now their concept of each other is still very abstract, but it sure LOOKS cute when they are together.

If it wasn't for my wonderful mother-in-law who is staying with us for a few weeks, we'd be much more stressed and cranky, I think. Sadly, my mother, who lived much closer, passed away a week before the twins were born. So yeah, we're on a bit of an emotional rollercoaster...

― schwantz (schwantz), Thursday, 16 November 2006 20:13 (nineteen years ago)

Oh! David, I'm sorry about your mother! At least she knew the twins were coming. What a time for you!

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Friday, 17 November 2006 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

Oh David. :-(

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Friday, 17 November 2006 16:11 (nineteen years ago)

David, congrats and condolences.

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Friday, 17 November 2006 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry about your mother's passing, but congrats on your babies.

In the meantime, here's the world's happiest baby:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFHcFGKPMQ4

― Django Blowhardt (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 18 November 2006 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

It's so weird. I went to a wedding this weekend, and multiple people gave me this dual greeting of condolences and congratulations.

So I think the Vicodin was keeping those guys asleep at night. Sounds like the weekend was a bit roughnow that my wife is off of it. Any tips for getting newborns to fall asleep? We've got the whole quieting-them-down thing working, but the next step (getting them to fall asleep) is, of course, much trickier.

― schwantz (schwantz), Monday, 20 November 2006 02:51 (nineteen years ago)

Good luck with the sleeping. Maybe you should just resign yourself to being tired for the meantime—don't expect much of yourself.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Monday, 20 November 2006 02:58 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think I have ever put up pictures of my kids...and it probably won't work! here's one:
ihttp://www.flickr.com/photos/23984025@N00/301546959/

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Monday, 20 November 2006 03:24 (nineteen years ago)

yay!

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Monday, 20 November 2006 03:24 (nineteen years ago)

(If you want an embedded image to appear in a thread, select "All Sizes" above your Flickr pic, choose Medium or Small and then cut and paste the HTML that appears in box 2 below the pic; that way the image is clickable and people can go straight through to your photostream. Not that they can't do that from the above link!)

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 20 November 2006 08:00 (nineteen years ago)

David, I don't think there's much you can do when it comes to putting newborns asleep aside from carrying them around a lot. Well, that's what I did. Just, y'know, like Beth said, get used to being extremely tired. Go with their rhythm, that's what helped me a lot: not trying to *force* them to sleep. It gets easier after a while. Some sleep through the night from one month old but Ophelia only did this from about three/four months.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Monday, 20 November 2006 08:13 (nineteen years ago)

I remember trying a variety of 'tricks' to get my babies to sleep, including playing a CD of womb noises (not my own, it was something I bought from Mothercare I think), recording 'white noise' sounds of the washing machine and the vacuum cleaner to play them, and leaving a loudly-ticking clock in the cot (apparently some babies like the rhythmic tick-tock sound and find it soothing ... mine did not!). But I'm not sure there's anything much you can do apart from sticking to a good wind-down routine and letting them get into their own rhythm, as Nathalie said.

I do remember strapping the carrycot onto the back seat of the car and taking my baby daughter for a night-time drive on more than one occasion - that was something which always seemed to get her to fall asleep.

― C J (C J), Monday, 20 November 2006 09:47 (nineteen years ago)

As we don't (and didn't) have a car, we had a one hour walk one night. Walking through our town at 4 am (till 5 am): BEYOND classic! We only did it once (so it remained classic instead of a massive dud). She was crying and we had a guest. We didn't want to bother the guest with Ophelia's crying so went for a walk.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Monday, 20 November 2006 10:12 (nineteen years ago)

I don't want to tempt fate, but we seem to be being as fortunate with Tallulah as we were with Ava; although Tallulah is ill at the moment (congested thanks to Ava's snotty kisses [first heavy cold since May]), she's only waking for a feed once or twice a night so far. Though I had to tend to her at 1:45, 3:30 and 5am on Saturday morning, it's usually just 4am (in fact, you could set your watch by her for nights 4 through 9). So we haven't had to resort to the white noise or twilight-drive options with either baby so far.

Health visitor comes today, so fingers crossed...

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 20 November 2006 10:26 (nineteen years ago)

I just realised that Cyrus has stopped waking us up in the middle of the night lately. Rufus still gets me up at least once when he can't find his Curious George doll in his tangled blankets, but it's been minimal sleep-interruption. And they've both slept past 6 the past few days. Yay!

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Monday, 20 November 2006 11:51 (nineteen years ago)

Yay health visitor!

(Sorry, I'm not sure what the proper response is.)

On occasions I have resorted to letting Edith sleep on top of me, but a price there is to pay in keen and quivering exactitude, etc...

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Monday, 20 November 2006 12:04 (nineteen years ago)

my wife is drying up in the breast department. we'll be ending on the first birthday (one week away, WTF!!!!!!!!) That was a fast year.

anyway, we unfortunately have given in to societal pressure and let our other two kids into the Santa Claus lie (you know, that he actually exists.) Some holy roller at my kid's school recently admonished me for perpetuating the lie (the nerve of her, but that's another story) but I admit to not feeling all that comfortable perpetuating nonsense to a six year old. A big part of me wants to let him in on the truth.

When my parents sat me down and told me that there was no such thing as Santa Claus, I calmly told them, "If that's your attitude, you won't be getting any presents from him."

I'm pretty sure my six year old would throw down shit like that as well.

― don weiner (don weiner), Monday, 20 November 2006 12:54 (nineteen years ago)

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