hi shannon !
congrats to your baby girl! what a scary story, but still beautiful, hope your recovery will go smooth...just keep eating those painkillers, I remember, I had no choice because I had to be up and running when we got back from hospital.
how is your baby now? good luck with breastfeeding....how are the nights and all going?
Tracy - how about you? what's new with babies? do you still breastfeed and how often?
here all good....I still breastfeed, it's getting harder, they goof around a lot at the breast and often I have to combine the bottle with EBM, they eat about 5-6 oz now, sometimes hubby does full bottle feedings to give me a break, which is nice...babies never had nipple confusion.
needless to say, I pump a lot.
weights:
Kaden 10lbs 9oz
Liana 11lbs 4oz
so 2lbs every month, right on track
our feedings still take 1 1/2 hours, with breast included and play time...if we do bottle only, they get better and eat faster. we have to burp them after every 1-2 ounces, which slows it down, but it's better for them.
my milk supply is fine, I am taking fenugreek, that helps....
we are at 5 feedings during day and evening and one middle of the night feeding, so pretty good, they are going 5-6 hours now, that's the long stretch at night for sleep, then the 2nd stretch at night is about 3-4 hours, so we're lucky.
also, their day time naps seem to fall in place, they sleep pretty good, still swaddling them...they usually nap around 1 1/2 hours during day for each nap. if they miss a nap, we can tell, the feeding after won't go that well and their cranky. so we plan around the babies....
we do go out quite a lot, we went already to a wedding with them, at the beach, visit friends, twin club events, etc.
they are adorable and smile a lot now, and talk in their cute baby language, we are still sleep deprived but it's getting better. I was pretty overwhelmed for a while in their month 2, just not enough sleep and a hard time with their feedings, it's much better now.
I also have a helper twice a week for 2x 5hours, she helps me with feedings and household.
hubby is working mostly from home, still helps me with everything including night feeding, he's a trooper!
here our updated link with new pix in month 3 and 4 ! :
pics.livejournal.com
xoxo
alexa
They are eating cereal (rice or oat baby cereal), and sometimes sweet potatoes or peaches or applesauce. Tyler is an awesome eater, always enjoying it. Charlotte is interested in it sometimes, but not others. Tyler gets a bit of an upset tummy from either the oat cereal or peaches, so we are trying them one at a time again to see which one. He's a real momma's boy, always wanting to be with me. Charlotte has discovered her voice and loves chatting us up, at full volume if possible.It's so sweet to hear a little girl voice in the house.