My days

Here is a brief look at my new everyday.

10:00am – wake babies- change babies – feed babies – put babies to sleep

12:00pm – eat brunch

1:00pm - wake babies- change babies – feed babies – put babies to sleep

3:30pm(ish) - wake babies- change babies – feed babies – put babies to sleep

6:00pm(ish) - wake babies- change babies – feed babies – put babies to sleep

btwn 6:30 & 7:00pm – TH gets home from work – eat dinner

7:30pm – go to bed (TH takes care of babies)

12:30am – wakeup

btwn 1:00 & 1:30am – wake babies- change babies – feed babies – put babies to sleep

btwn 3:30 & 4:30am – wake babies- change babies – feed babies – put babies to sleep

btwn 7:30 & 8:00am - wake babies- change babies – feed babies – put babies to sleep

8:30am – nap

—- Repeat —- 

That’s my general day-to-day — for now. I’m sure it will change as the girls get older. The wake babies- change babies – feed babies – put babies to sleep part takes about 1.5 hours to complete. I can’t do 2 babies at once, so it’s one after the other (usually).  This doesn’t include the times we have to change the diapers that aren’t before feedings and when their diapers leak and they need a new change of clothes, soothing for fussiness and those random times when the babies get a hunger surge and wake themselves up and cry to be fed again.

We have 30+ bottles and we are constantly washing them all — keeping them all in rotation and at the ready as much as possible.

Everyone who has kids tells you that your life will completely change, and duh — it does. You really have to be ready for kids when you have them, b/c there is no going back to normal once they arrive.

The first 2 weeks were extremely difficult. You have no time to really prepare. If these are your first kids, how could you? Everything is new.

Sleep deprivation seems to be the #1 issue for most – but being pregnant with twins somewhat prepares you for that . The first 2 weeks were pretty rough for me b/c I was still in a lot of pain and healing from the c-section. I was also still learning their sounds so every noise they made was a get-up-from-bed-and-check-on-them kind of noise. And getting out of bed was no fun. *Ouch*

I’m still healing from the surgery. Anyone who says people who have c-sections are taking the EASY way out, has never had a c-section. I admit, I had a fear of natural birth, I also had a fear of having a c-section too. Having something so big come out of your body (one way or another) is SCARY. With labor there are risks. No matter which way you look at it.

My sister had a v-birth and she said it took a whole month for the pain to go away. Yeah, there is that fear of having a TEAR, and it seems these days it’s pretty common for that to happen. Just thinking of it makes me cringe. OUCH!!!

It’s been almost 4 weeks for me and I’m still in pain. It’s a different kind of pain, considering you have multiple layers of your body cut open then stitched back up. Each layer individually. Some areas by your bladder, your uterus, your skin etc… I didn’t get any staples, just stitches that are supposed to dissolve and some steri-strips to help keep the incision closed. I over did it a couple days ago and the incision started to open. That is NOT COOL, so now I’ll have to deal with that this week.

Getting out of the house with the kids, is an ordeal. It’s a two-person job. In the car, someone has to sit in the back with them, to make sure they keep their heads in the carseat properly. Summer’s head is so tiny it pops out of the carseat WITH the added cushions for tiny babies, and I have had to push it back while on the road. Otherwise she’d choke herself on the carseat belts

Life can be difficult some days, but we have it really GOOD. The girls sleep REALLY well and do not throw fits. They do not have to be held all day to stay happy. They love sleeping in their crib, can sleep in the day time with lots of light and in the dark. They don’t wake up when the dogs bark like mad and can tolerate loud noises. They do not have any signs of colic …yet.

There were one or two instances in the past almost  4 weeks where the 2 of them both woke up crying and trying to appease both by myself — well I haven’t figured that out. I don’t have a swing for them, so I can’t put one in it and hold the other. Luckily TH has been around to help when a situation like this arises.

Also we are very lucky to have family in-state to help us out. TH’s mom has been by to help during the days in the beginning, so there were always 2 people around to take care of the babes. And my mom came by everyday last week and spent the night a bunch of times to handle the over-night feedings for us. She will be doing the same this week also, and has also been cooking us dinner. It’s been really nice having an extra set of hands as we learn to adjust to life with 2 babies.

The girls are getting so much easier to handle b/c we don’t have to wake them and feed them as often as we did the first 2 weeks … I’m starting to think I’ll be able to handle taking care of them on my own

It is strange being up right now. It’s 4:40am, I just woke, changed, fed, and put down both of the girls. Everyone in the house is sleeping… so this is the time I find to blog and surf the web and just chill…

That’s all for now, I’m hoping I can sneak in a 1 hour nap now and that the girls stay asleep — if I get the time later in the day, I’ll post some pics from this past weekend.