Sunday, June 15, 2014

Happy 1 month my angels!

I cannot believe my babies are one month old!!  They are all home and happy as ever.  Right now we're on a 3 hour feeding schedule.  I get up to pump 30 mins before they eat.  Unfortunately since they're premies they don't latch very well for breastfeeding.  So they're bottle fed my milk until we get breastfeeding down.  To be honest, I'm not 100% positive that I want to exclusively breastfeed. Yeah sure pumping isn't the greatest thing in the whole wide world, but at least people can help bottle feed them!  So we'll see what we end up doing long term.  My goal is to pump/breastfeed for 1 year... So far I'm one month down!  Wooohoo! Haha.

Can I just say that my mom is a SAINT!  Oh my goodness, we are so so lucky to have her here helping us.  She's a HUGE help!  Right now the routine is I do all of the night feedings while she sleeps, then I wake her up at 8am while I sleep for a few hours.  I'm so so lucky that she's going to be here until mid August. Hopefully we can get them on a little longer sleeping schedule by then.  Because eating every 3 hours only leaves about an hour - an hour and a half of sleep/down time in between... Especially with me pumping 30 mins prior.  I'll tell you what though, it's totally worth it.  Yes, you can survive on pure adrenaline.  I did for 5 days before my mom got here!  Maybe got 3 hours of sleep total per day.  Motherhood is the greatest thing in the whole wide world.

One month stats... Aurora weighs 5 pounds 4 ounces (born at 3 pounds 12 ounces)!!  Gavin weighs 6 pounds 3 ounces (born at 4 pounds 6 ounces)!!  Madelyn weighs 5 pounds 2 ounces (born at 4 pounds 2 ounces)!!

These are the photos I took on their actually 1 month.  I thought before the feeding would be best that way they're awake.  HA - think again.  Three hungry fussy babies is what I got.

Gavin trying to eat Aurora's head

HA - it just makes me laugh

 The next day I tried again.  This time it was after the feeding.  Much happier babies!

Aurora


Gavin


 Madelyn









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