She documented her pregnancy journey with FLARE, and now Jessi Cruickshank is getting real about what it’s *really* like to be a mom of twins in her no-filter motherhood column, “Holy Crap.
I’m a Mom.” In her final installment, Jessi talks about how we’re conditioned to measure our babies against other babies—which is why any perceived setback feels intensely personalMy twins are 17 months old and they can’t walk. I’ll give you a moment to judge. I don’t blame you. Most babies walk around the one-year mark. According to the, it’s normal to walk between nine months and 15 months. But here are my boys, at 17 months, blissfully crawling around without a single attempt to take a step.
The therapist studied my guys from head to toe as they wiggled and writhed. She rotated their tiny legs in and out, pulled them to sit, lifted them to stand, then shook her head as their wobbly legs flopped under them like ramen noodles. “It’s their abs,” she concluded.“OK…” I replied, “and how did they get that?”We were prescribed immediate physical therapy sessions, two hours a week, for 16 weeks.
We’re conditioned to measure our children against others because that’s what our doctors do from the moment they arrive. They tell us where our kid falls on the “pediatric growth chart” and if they are hitting their “developmental milestones.” They use these tools because they’re an effective way to measure growth and development, I appreciate that.
So instead of judging and comparing, getting defensive and making excuses, allow me to brag. My babies can say “Mamma” and “Dada,” “dog” and “duck,” and when they say “frog” it sounds suspiciously like “f*ck.” They can dunk a mini basketball, play a toy piano with their feet and pick each other’s noses with finesse.
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