Monday, January 14, 2008

Another Fun Day at the Edds Home in Stereo

It’s amazing how quickly total peace can become absolute chaos. The challenge of caring for twins is flow management. At six weeks old they are still on a three hour cycle around the clock, and it’s important to stagger their cycles. Trey generally wants to eat on the threes (3:00, 6:00, 9:00 & 12:00) and Benji eats in-between (1:30, 4:30, 7:30 and 10:30). This gives us about 90 minutes to change, feed, play and put-down each baby before the next one is ready. Getting off schedule can mean both babies are needy at the same time, which is difficult for a single caretaker. When this happens, you might as well pick up the camera.

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