A day in the life of this twin mom

Here's a typical day in the life of this twin mom. Around noon is when I typically get out of bed for the day. I change the babies diapers and dress them in a cute outfit. The babies are not quite out of newborn sizes and not quite into 0-3 month sizes. If I have stuff I need to do, like eat lunch or do chores around the house I'll put the girls in their bouncy chairs all bundled up and hope that they'll fall asleep. They sometimes like to have pacifiers but they also tend to pull them out of their mouths or push them out with their tongues and start crying about it. I have to continually put them back in their mouths until they nod off. Other times they won't go to sleep so I fix myself lunch or a snack and I eat with the babies in my lap. More often than not I eat while breastfeeding. I feed the babies every two hours during the day which means two hours from the beginning of the last feeding. I feed for 40 minutes which means I only get 1hour 20 minutes between feedings to do other stuff. Breastfeeding itself typically feels really good and relieving but there was about a week where I was in a ton of pain and I didn't know what to do about the blisters on my nipples. I figured out that instead of using disposable breast pads I use lily pads which are rubber and I put a dimes worth of pure lanolin and that keeps the blisters and chapping at bay. My bladder hasn't quite woken up from the c-section yet so I tend to forget to empty my bladder throughout the day. Every 2 days I have to wash the cloth diapers and I'm absolutely in love with cloth diapering; I have never been a fan of disposable diapers for some reason. In spite of the babies needing to be held so much I have been able to keep up on the housework and the laundry. Larry helps out a lot with cooking and grocery shopping and he holds the babies a lot when he gets home and it frees me up to catch up on chores when necessary. My bedtime varies every night but my last feeding is sometime around 11 or midnight. The babies wake me up anywhere from 3 to 5 hours after the last feeding. Thankfully there are actually some funny shows on in the middle of the night so I end up having a good laugh or playing a tetris-like game on my cell phone. Both babies sleep in the bed with us. Ruby sleeps on my right side with her head snuggled under my armpit, and Layla sleeps in my chest with her head nestled in my neck. I will have to stop this arrangement in the next couple days because this morning I found that Layla had rolled off of my chest between Larry and I. Larry sleeps very hard and isn't aware of the babies so we can't have the babies near him in bed.

Its hard to go out to anywhere other than someone's house because I have to feed so often. If we do go out I'll feed them a bottle of formula and try to get home or to someone's house before the next feeding. The babies typically fall right asleep when we put them in their car seats so driving places is never an issue. Both babies are pretty easy going and happy and just about every person who has been around us has said that I seem very relaxed as well. I definitely feel like I'm finally doing something I was created for but I also realize I wouldn't be so relaxed and happy if I didn't have such a helpful husband.

The girls are weighing somewhere in the 8 pound range and they are very long. I won't know where they're at until their appointment on the 28th. Both girls make lots of eye contact and occasionally they flirt with us.