Our good babies who would eat, get their diaper changed and then drift peacefully back to sleep at night seem to have been replaced by babies who eat, get their diaper changed and then scream like banshees (what is a banshee anyway?) at the top of their lungs until someone picks them up. They then calm down until they get put down again - even if they appear to be in a deep sleep when put down. Luckily they seem to be taking turns screaming like banshees - one will sleep while the other screams. I've been dutifully picking the screaming one up, rocking her, calming her, putting her down and then repeating over and over again - and it doesn't seem to help matters. So, right now I'm trying to let Maya (she's the screamer right now) scream for 10 minutes to see if she calms down herself.
Update: after 9 minutes of top of her lungs screaming, Maya seems to have gone to sleep. The unbelievable thing is that Kate slept peacefully through the whole thing - twins have a remarkable talent for blocking out someone screaming in their ear.
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Here is the definition - Anthony
banshee |ˈban sh ē|
noun
(in Irish legend) a female spirit whose wailing warns of an impending death in a house : the little girl dropped her ice cream and began to howl like a banshee | [as adj. ] a horrible banshee wail.
ORIGIN late 17th cent.: from Irish bean sídhe, from Old Irish ben síde ‘woman of the fairies.’
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