Feed Break

Good morning! Er, it’s almost morning now. We’re now keeping a little bit of a different schedule now since the girls arrived. It’s now the time from the first ‘nap’ to the first pump/feeding, then we’ll go back to sleep around midnight and repeat in about 2 hours. Nate and I have been sleeping with the girls at night, each with one on the couch or chair. It works well to keep them sleeping for about 3 hours each time, and leaving me pretty functional, but it is early…

I am feeling really good after the arrival of the girls on Tuesday of last week. They are only 5 days old today, hard to believe, as it now feels to have been longer. I have more ‘time’ during the day that I’m home, more or less due to the fact that I’ve always worked, so being home just feels different. The time we do have goes by on a much different schedule, so it doesn’t feel like a long Sunday if we are just around the house.

We went to the doctor today to get Siena checked for her slight jaundice. The second child of twins seems to have this more as the bruising that can happen as she slides into place during birth. The midwives wait for the first to be born and then try to hold/guide to second into place from both sides of my belly so she didn’t turn and go breech, requiring a c-section. Siena did great and had gained 110gm in a day and the jaundice was almost gone. It wasn’t really noticeable in her color. She did almost poop on the doctor, which would have been great, she was not very nice and needed a good slap to the face.

Well, I suppose I should wake, change, and feed Névé so we can go back to sleep and repeat in about 3 hours. More pictures are always on the way, or you can check our Flickr sites at the right links. Nate is a little ahead of me in that, but I hope to get a few pictures up this week. As for now, I like to think of myself as a feeding machine, or a goat… sounds better than cow to me.


Coming home


Big brother Osu and 'My newborn clothes are WAY too big'

They're Here!

Dawn and I will write up the absolutely amazing experience that was yesterday, 31 January 2012, in the coming days.  Right now, I just wanted to provide a brief update for those that may not be able to see all of the updates on Facebook.  Be assured, all three girls are doing excellent!  Tomorrow, they should be allowed to leave the hospital around 11 am.  However, I also have to find someone to pull the stitches out of my back from last weeks surgery tomorrow, and I'm told it could be a long wait.  Once that is done and the girls are released, however, we'll finally all get to be together in our own house.  I can't wait.  My short visits to the hospital just haven't been enough and I really miss all of the girls.  It's hard not having them here, but going through and processing the pictures I've taken so far puts a huge smile on my face.  Here are a few of those pictures, along with a link to all that I have finished up to this point.  I actually still have quite a few pictures to go through from yesterday, and some that I took today too.  I'll share those as soon as I can!

Dawn with the girls minutes after giving birth

Siena says, "hello"

Névé (L) and Siena (R) at their four hour check-up

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The Final Countdown- Week 38

We are now counting down the DAYS until our little girls arrive. Monday, January 30th is the day they will be induced if they do not come sooner. I hope they wait, just to give us a few more days to get ready. One more vacuum of the house, a little more laundry, maybe another small project as well.

There isn't much new news as of today. I have another appointment for the girls tomorrow, so we'll see what the doctor says then.

As for now, I need to go to bed, and hopefully we have a new weekly picture of me to upload soon. We will post a before and after I'm sure.


Keeping my balance...


Last situps


Last workout before the babies

Week 37- It's still okay to work out

The German winter is continuing to disappoint this year. It’s raining today and melting our almost dusting of snow. So much for having winter babies. I was all set to have them wrapped up in fuzzy winter snowsuits, but it seems more like they will need ponchos and rain boots.

We’re halfway through week 37 now and everything still seems pretty normal. I am no longer working, but still doing a bit of my workout routine. I feel stopping that part will really throw my body off, and he girls seem to really enjoy the bouncing around.

We had our doctor visit today and the girls are doing great. They are weighing in around 5.5 and 6 pounds as calculated by the ultrasound machine. Siena was licking Névé’s foot in the ultrasound, so that show how close they really are. My doctor even laughed when I said I was still going to the gym.

And in other news, it looks like they will be here in the next week and a half, as my doctor doesn’t want them to hang out past 38 completed weeks. So, on January 30th I will be induced if the girls have not made an appearance yet.


Hanging out in the nursery


Osu saying hello

See the foot lick