date: Sat 17 May 2025 05:48:51 PM PDT
subj: newborn twins interactions, detecting parents, diapers
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Its interesting to witness newborn twins in the same space. I
have a boy and a girl in the same room. Science says many things
about people and newborns, what they know, are aware of, all
sorts of things, watching them as a parent with my ego and
belief system I can't always reconcile what science says. 

When the twins are sleeping what is known as active sleep, a
type of sleep newborns do that almost seems like they are awake.
They kick their feet, throw their hands up, and make noise.
With my twins there seems to be a feed back between them. One
twin will make a noise, then the other will follow. They both
seem asleep to me. I think they are awake, or waking up, but
then I go to check on one of them; sure enough, asleep. I've
even touched them but see no response to my touch. They do this
for about an hour with each other. The baby eeeeh, a couple
seconds later the other baby says eeeeh. Back and forth they do
this with each other. 


Going in to check on them: My wife or myself will try and enter
the room quietly, certainly quite enough for an adult not to be
aware of someone entering the room, but the moment one of use
gets close to their crib, they say eeeeh or rrrrrah. 


*** Changing the baby: Here is something interesting. Newborns
from the NICU don't like having their clothes taken off. They
are fine until their legs get touched, then its bad. I wonder if
its just because its colder, or due to all the pokes on their
feet for blood glucose checks. They are usually upset when
changing them enough to make it difficult. They bring their legs
close to their body, then push them back. Funny if for any
reason they pause for a moment, this is a WARNING!!! they are
going to pee.  Be prepared for their subtle change in behavior.
As a parent you don't get but a moment to detect this. Have a
regular pile of wash clothes ready, and if your newborn is a
boy, always, always have that wash cloth over their private
parts because they are likely going to pee all over the clean
diaper, their clothes, and the changing table.