Realizing I didn’t really answer your question in that rambling essay. One thing that’s been really hard is when they’re just inconsolably upset and I can’t figure out how to help, makes me feel like a failure of a mother. It can also get tricky when my husband and I disagree on why their upset...
@rrruff My twins are 5 weeks old so this is all fresh. They stayed in the NICU for 8 and 18 days so we didn’t have the typical first night experience but had that whole trauma instead. Our girl came home first and we slept about 30 minutes that first night because we just couldn’t figure out how...