I can’t believe my maternity leave is nearly over. I decided to take only 6 weeks off this time, but I’m going to start slow (0.5 FTE) and ramp back up to full-time over the next bunch of months.

Jordan and Casey are doing so well. They’re finally having some of that fabled “quiet alert” time, don’t appear to have colic (knock on wood), and maybe are starting to smile just a little bit? I finally got their day-night reversal corrected, and now they wake up only once or twice in the night. It’s pretty nice. We do have a fair bit of simultaneous crying (think “howling monkeys”) during the day, which is difficult for me to handle, but I do the best I can and hope the one I can’t comfort as well will forgive me eventually.

Mothering twins isn’t twice as much work as it was with a single baby, and in some ways, it is a little easier. But this is what I seem to spend nearly all of my time doing…

They are gaining weight impressively quickly – Jordan is 9 lbs, 4 oz, and Casey is 9 lbs, 12 oz – and I haven’t needed to give them any formula at all. “Normal” weight gain with breastmilk is 0.5 to 1 oz per day during the first month or so, but the girls each have been gaining 10+ oz per week for the past few weeks. It’s very cool.

Oops, gotta go, someone is crying…