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This post isn’t for dooming. I specifically want to focus on a more positive perspective. Was anyone else relatively satisfied?

I haven’t finished the entire quest but I stopped after >!Irminsul burns and we get our goodbye scene!<.

Granted, some parts of the quest as a whole were a bit of a slog. I think we could have parsed down the participating cast a smidge and it still would have worked.

I’m okay with how everything turned out. But I’m also not of the opinion he was going to be playable without a lot of build-up and ahead of Snez, when we consider his Harbinger rank, among other things.

Maybe it’s just me having distance from the game, being too busy offline, whatever, but I like what we got. A lot of the beats were necessary for the rest of his arc (no, it’s not over, it’s obvious) and I’m okay with how it was executed.

B/G twins, 10 months but ~ 8 months adjusted (born 10 weeks early).

Prefacing with I’m not certain if a schedule or routine change is needed. I try to keep bedtime routine simple because both of us work and I cannot commit to bath time every night with two.

Wake for day: between 5:30-6, first bottle between 6 and 6:30am.

Wws: 2.5-3 hrs. Occasional 3-4 hours but not consistent atm. Roughly 3 naps a day, lasting from 30 minutes to an hour. Longest wake window is before dinner, somewhere between 2:30-3PM until they eat around 5:30. They’re usually in their cribs between 6:30 and 7PM at the latest.

We haven’t change their evening routine, which consists of bottles + offering solids in their bouncers (they use high chairs but the bouncers helped them relax since they had reflux, Twin B/Girl still struggles a bit with it.) They get bottles, some solids, we do story time for about 15-30 minutes, and usually Twin B will drift off and even if Twin A was awake, he’d go down in his crib *happy* and babble himself to sleep.

They always slept in a separate room together, with us checking up on them for major fussing or crying. Didn’t use a particular method so I’m not sure if they’re “sleep trained” but we fostered independent sleeping as much as possible.

**Current Dilemma:**

The past week or so has been a disaster for Twin A. Can’t pinpoint exact causes nor timing (could be right when he goes down, a half hour later, two hours later) but essentially he will scream awake. He’s a thumb sucker and in all other cases, like naps, he’s capable of finding his thumb and soothing himself. Outgrew his pacifier, doesn’t want anything near his mouth, music/sing or soft lights don’t work; once he’s in this “mode”, the only thing we’ve found to calm him down is holding/walking. And even that’s beginning to fail because he’s extending his body and fighting the hold.

Diaper gets changed, crying. Put down in crib a smidge the wrong way, crying. Burping, might burp and then putting him down sends him right back. We ruled out an ear infection. Pediatrician said his upper ridge is hard and I’ve no doubt he’s teething. Husband doesn’t want to use Motrin/Tylenol unnecessarily. Usually all of this crying isn’t accompanied by other teething signs, either.

Once asleep, he might last two minutes. He might sleep for four hours. At this point, he’s probably very happy with the comfort from me but that’s not sustainable nor good for him in the long term.

He’s also crawling now, so that’s probably also playing a part because all he wants to do after dinner is move and play.

I feel like there’s something I’m missing or need to adjust for him but I’m not sure what. With two, I want to keep *most* of their fundamental routines the same but I need to address the needs of the one struggling right now…