Managing twins @ nearly 7 months

I am feeling much better nowadays as both the twins and I have adjusted to our daily routine. I could not do it without my Mom of course, who had been nothing but my pillar of strength the whole 7 months through. Thank you Mama you are the best!

I had just finished reading my past posts and have realised how melancholic all of them were. I have always been an emo blogger - it is time to let some sunshine pass through this blog, so that the next time when Rizq and Qays are old enough to read, they would feel excited to read up on what their Mama had been up to while they were growing up.

I have never felt exhausted yet contented at the same time but the last 7 months had been nothing but fun. I love being a mom to twins, despite the fact that they still wake me up every other hour or so at night! Especially if we are at my in laws place. Wonder why. Hehe. The thing about twins is, when they share the same bed, they also tend to wake each other up at night. We are still waking up 4 to 6 times at night, sometimes just to change their sleeping positions. They are good babies though, because when they wake up to nurse at night, they will usually go back to sleep after that. They also prefer to sleep on our bed rather than their own, and Rizq loves to sleep under his Papa's armpit! Hehe. Qays on the other hand, can be a little loud monster when it comes to bedtime. He can scream his lungs out - this one is sure a soprano if he ever joins the choir! There are some nights when I really do not know what to do to pacify him. I always tell myself not to give up though, and will try all methods, by book or by experience to help him fall asleep. It does not help that he is teething and starting to do all sorts of things such as turning and sitting up on his own - there you go, managing cranky babies at night is no easy task! Both of the babies also hate pacifiers and we have more or less give up on introducing the different kinds of pacifiers to them.

At nearly 6 months, we started giving Rizq and Qays solids (with their paed's consent due to their prematurity). We intro solids bit by bit starting with organic brown rice cereals (because I am one paranoid parent and I believe they should start eating organic food 1st). Then we slowly intro apple, pear, avocado, carrot and just recently, sweet potato.. they hated the sour taste of apples and pears so we had to make sure the apples and pears bought were the extra sweet ones. Both threw up a couple of times when the apple and pear they ate were a bit sour. They do not mind the bitter taste of avocados though. The twins are indeed high maintenance babies! The cost of avocados are 3 for S$5! Expensive right?

This is quite a long post and I still have so much to say hence will continue again soon! Till then!