One week old
I can't believe a week has gone by already. The first few days felt like months, but the last few days have flown by.
The girls had their carseat tests yesterday, Violet did great, Livi was borderline, but they passed her. I need to watch her closely in the car to make sure she doesn't flop too much. They have a baby bed they tell you to buy if they are borderline, but they think she will be ok with supervision.
The whole, having to fly the babies home started to dawn on us yesterday. I think the reality of having no nest here and a good 7-8 hour trains, planes and automobile journey with them, (2 hours to airport, train thru airport, 4hrs15mins on plane and then all the good stuff in between and after), and the cold rain, hit us both. Dustin's mom is unable to fly in to help, so it will just be D and I and the two kiddos. D felt they needed to get on the plane asap to get them home, i felt they needed a couple of nights here to get stronger before being exposed to the germs, so the sum of our differering opinions was... well not one of our finest hours:-)).. Alls well that ends well though, we both feel a lot better about it and decided to stay one night when they are discharged (we have to anyway because we can't possibly make a flight in time), and see how we feel from there. I just want to be super organized when we fly, rushing through airports barely making flights has not been uncommon practice for us, darling D has made a career of it, and i want to make sure this time we have plenty of time. The nurses told us to take some purell, so our plan is when we're going through security if and when they try to paw our babies with their filthy mits, shoot them in the hands with a wad of sanitizer. We'll be carrying them in slings on our chests with pieces of material covering their faces, very Michael Jackson of us.
As of yesterday Livi is weighing in just over 5lbs and Violet is a curvy 5lbs6oz.
We are sleeping in the hospital tonight, so if you dont hear a blog from me tomorrow, thats why!
Definitely need to write down feedings, i always thought there was no way i'd forget, but with your exhaustion you really do forget who ate what, and who did what. In fact, I was so tired yesterday i would pull the hat back to check which colour hair mid-feeding, because when they're feeding they look the same.
If you can tell personalities early on, i have a sweet sleepy angel with Livi and a tanty throwing fusser with Violet, i think thats mainly attributed to her reflux though, poor little thing.
The girls had their carseat tests yesterday, Violet did great, Livi was borderline, but they passed her. I need to watch her closely in the car to make sure she doesn't flop too much. They have a baby bed they tell you to buy if they are borderline, but they think she will be ok with supervision.
The whole, having to fly the babies home started to dawn on us yesterday. I think the reality of having no nest here and a good 7-8 hour trains, planes and automobile journey with them, (2 hours to airport, train thru airport, 4hrs15mins on plane and then all the good stuff in between and after), and the cold rain, hit us both. Dustin's mom is unable to fly in to help, so it will just be D and I and the two kiddos. D felt they needed to get on the plane asap to get them home, i felt they needed a couple of nights here to get stronger before being exposed to the germs, so the sum of our differering opinions was... well not one of our finest hours:-)).. Alls well that ends well though, we both feel a lot better about it and decided to stay one night when they are discharged (we have to anyway because we can't possibly make a flight in time), and see how we feel from there. I just want to be super organized when we fly, rushing through airports barely making flights has not been uncommon practice for us, darling D has made a career of it, and i want to make sure this time we have plenty of time. The nurses told us to take some purell, so our plan is when we're going through security if and when they try to paw our babies with their filthy mits, shoot them in the hands with a wad of sanitizer. We'll be carrying them in slings on our chests with pieces of material covering their faces, very Michael Jackson of us.
As of yesterday Livi is weighing in just over 5lbs and Violet is a curvy 5lbs6oz.
We are sleeping in the hospital tonight, so if you dont hear a blog from me tomorrow, thats why!
Definitely need to write down feedings, i always thought there was no way i'd forget, but with your exhaustion you really do forget who ate what, and who did what. In fact, I was so tired yesterday i would pull the hat back to check which colour hair mid-feeding, because when they're feeding they look the same.
If you can tell personalities early on, i have a sweet sleepy angel with Livi and a tanty throwing fusser with Violet, i think thats mainly attributed to her reflux though, poor little thing.
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