5 weeks and Thanksgiving

Babies are getting older, Mum an Dad more tired.  But  the same time we are coping.  I took the girls for a walk today, I'm a little sore but healing well.

The top picture is Isabel the other Abigail.  Both are gaining weight, starting to follow objects, and gripe about gas.  Oh and I've finally figured out how to breast feed them at the same time!  That has been so hard trying to get them latched and supported without having 2 sets of hands.  Breast feeding and getting them to sleep at night has been some of the most trying experiences of our lives.  I swear they are gassy in the evenings and can take forever to settle down.

Given I'm not working the way we are doing things right now is Jagr takes the least fussy child with him to bed and I take the problem child of the evening and try to settle them.  That way he gets some sleep and I'm not worrying about him falling asleep at the wheel on the way to work in the morning, I can always cat nap during the day.

I was surprised by a phone call today by my girlfriend, she got to Portland midnight last night had Thanksgiving with her husbands family and yet still called us today as she had been thinking about us.  I can honestly say at this point she has and her family have been a huge support to us, I can't thank her enough and we love their company!  I think our girls are going to be thoroughly spoiled rotten by them :)

When to sleep

Well I find myself most of the time sleeping now on the sofa or in the recliner with a baby or two in my arms...not the most comfortable but at least I can manage an hour or two at a time and it adds up.  I knew we were in for a trying time but I don't think anything could have prepared us for this.

We think we have finally figured out the sleeping problems at night tho...overheating of baby.  After we got the apartment cooled down a bit and the babies in a layer less it worked like a charm.

Found out some disturbing news a couple of days about my ex-mother in law.  I couldn't stop crying all night.  She has deserved better in life, I know a lot of it was her decision but I can't help thinking the last few years she has taken care of others and has little cared for herself.  Myself included in that list of people she has helped.  I wish she had had some true happiness tho instead of having people mooching off of her have some genuine happiness and contentedness.  /sigh

Our first successful night!

Finally! We actually managed to get the kids to sleep in the crib last night...and get a fair amount of rest ourselves! Not sure why I don't think we did anything different, other than maybe hold the kids a bit longer till we tried to put them down. Even with my snoring we still managed to get some sleep. Got to figure out how we are going to do this when Jagr goes back to work tho. Not sure he can sleep too well in the bedroom, and I'm still half afraid we are going to miss the kids fussing in the night. A lot of that is to do with how tired and just falling into a pure exhausted sleep from which it would be hard to wake even the dead.

Otherwise it's hard to imagine that the girls are now a week and 1 day old and I really would have spent today just fretting and thinking about tomorrow when I should have had a scheduled c section. I kind of miss the feeling of them moving in my stomach...

Oh and I jumped on our scales at home and was shocked! I was around 286 the last time I was weighed at the Dr's office would have been the Thursday before the birth. My scales are trying to tell me I'm 245lbs... now I know I didn't put on that much weight but damn that seems off...not that I'm going to complain if it isn't a complete lie but sheesh! My starting weight was 272 so em yeah. If the scales aren't lying that's a good start for me towards getting back into shape and some reasonable weight. I'm determined to loose a lot of the excess weight and I'm motivated. The girls are just so wonderful and I want them to be proud of their Mum and I want to be active with them and carrying this much weight now I know that's not possible.

Right now I'm just busying myself doing little bits of housework here and there. Not that I'm saying we are untidy we aren't particularly but we have the areas we don't clean as well as we should. So I'm actually trying to get into better habits, like emptying the draining tray of items and trying to let it dry properly, specially now as I have to worry about baby bottles and hygiene more.