December 15 2020 - 8.5 months actual/ 6 months 1 week corrected
😴 I could have gone to bed at 9pm tonight and been perfectly happy! BUT, there were bottles to clean, a dog to walk, and a niece blanket to work on...
Anyway.. November was a big month for the girls! They've started to recognize each other more, laugh at each other, and are excited to see each other.
Somewhere in the middle of the month, Delilah learned how to roll from her back to her belly and has been.. I'm not sure if I'd call it army crawling, basically pushing herself backwards to get around. They've outgrown hanging out on their name blankets, and we're starting to use the pack n play now as baby jail because they can get into stuff if they're left unattended! And now that we're in December and the tree is up with presents/xmas decorations out, even more reason to keep them contained lol
Here they are cooing at each other (so stinkin cute ðŸ˜)
Watching these two grow is so interesting - they go back and forth with who is in the lead developmentally. First, Delilah was the one ahead with vocalizations. She was waking me up with her crazy screeching every morning at 6am 😖 Now Madeline is the one doing all the talking (Delilah does too, but not as much - she's too busy advancing her physical skills!)
Now Delilah can't stop rolling, and she'll roll onto her belly during nap time which she HATES and then she'll cry and cry and cry 😑
So some limitations they have.. at 6 months old, a baby should be able to hold their weight on their legs like they're going to stand, should be able to sit up (with support I believe), roll over both ways. Neither girl can stand up too well (which, I've read that baby foot bones still aren't formed, so since they won't be walking any time soon, I'm not super worried about this), Delilah is a rolling machine, as long as it's back to belly. She COULD roll belly to back, but she doesn't do it as much any more since the vantage from being on your belly is much better! She does very well sitting up on her own once she gets her balance (I still put blankets all around her anyway). Madeline has yet to roll from back to belly, which might just be due to being the bigger baby. Then she either gets frustrated like in this video -
or she gives up and tries to find another toy she can reach in another direction.
Both girls are able to pivot on their hands while on their bellies, so I think Madeline also finds this a more efficient way to get toys, rather than rolling. Our NICU follow up team is a bit concerned about this and wants us to step up our physical therapy appointments (It's also a little concerning that she's not enticed to roll over without assistance. She LOVES pacifiers - she finds them wherever she is and pops them right into her mouth. You dangle that over her head and she'll reach her arms out, but once it's gone too far over to the side, she loses interest). Rolling (I've learned) is very important for building ab muscles which are necessary for sitting up straight, crawling and eventually walking. At one of our first PT appointments, we were told that that babies who started standing and walking before really crawling (like they just skipped over it) tended to have terrible handwriting. I was a big crawler as a baby, so I'm not sure what my handwriting excuse was!
I'll leave you with this video of me trying to get both girls to sit up (rolled up are their bear blankets I made for them!). I think this epitomizes what #twinmom life is like - you prop one baby up and the other flops. You prop that baby up, and the first one flops. I've definitely honed my ninja skills and can catch falling-over babies with my foot 😆
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