Breast is best......

but dang it all my boobs need a break! Thanks to Enfamil for making the newborn and infant formula. They have helped us to sleep more at night and enjoy quiet hours during the day. The girls are nursing great and some days I don't really have to use much formula and other days they just can't seem to get enough food in their tummies. The nighttime schedule is pretty good and will probably change once they start another growth spurt. They eat around 10pm, then again around 1:30am, then 4:30am and we start all over for the day at 7am. not too shabby. so we get a little bit of sleep. it works even better when they wake up together. doesn't always happen so those feeding sessions get long. It is all worth it especially now since they are starting to smile and focus on things around them.

7 Weeks!

can y'all believe it!
L-R:
Jane, Kitty

Tummy Time and Hold Me Time

So if you think that one baby is alot of work, well let me and all the other parents of multiples just laugh in your face. Right now i average about 3 hours of sleep a night and not all in a row or even one full hour at a time. More like little snatches of sleep here and there between nursing, bottles and comforting. And these kids poop alot and have major gas which makes me crack up and then snuggle them even more since i know it must have hurt there little tummys. I, unfortunatley, am a mother that doesn't produce enough milk for all of her babies. I never have even with my two older girls. They made it to 11 months and 9 months, but the twins have to share what little I have between them so we do supplement alot with formula. And even though it says for fussiness and gas it is still hard on their little bodies to digest. I am still nursing them first as much as they want and then when they are unsatisfied(and they always are) we have the bottle on hand for them. But at 6 weeks they are weighing 8 lbs and starting to hold their heads up and having a great time crying while we have tummy time. The best part about crying is if Jane starts up then Kitty has to get hers in too. So instead of one baby just needing to be comforted, I am alone 90% of the day with both crying and wanting to be held. It is very tricky but I do have a great twins nursing pillow that holds them both. Oi vey! This is gonna be a long year!!

My Hollywood Starlet

I can't get over these eyes. Emily looks like she is 5 going on 21!

8 days later

my siser in law came over with my MIL and took these pics. so precious.

How can they eat this much?

Guess who was up with the cutest twins in the world from midnight to 7am? if you said Celine Dion you are totally wrong. Yes i had a few snippets of sleep in my rocking chair but most of the night was breast on breast off and then the next baby was hungry. so one hour for each baby and then by the time one is done the other is ready and it just keeps on goin' round. so i was cranky and then my carpal tunney became the worst ever and i was a level ten pain and was bawling until i was able to pop some pills to deaden the pain but that was after the blessing. This is one tough recovery. The best part about the recovery is my incinsion is totally fine. no infection and very little pain. alright enough about me i am sure you just want to see pics of them. well they are much cuter than me for sure!

Hi Jane! Hi Kitty!

The twins have arrived! They debuted on January 5, 2011 at 2:45pm and 2:47pm. Jane came first weighing in at 6 lbs. 0.7 ounces followed by Kitty(Katherine) at 6lbs 6oz. I know, Kitty was hogging all the food! Jane was 18 inches long and Kitty was 18 1/2. Both are beautiful and totally identical at this point. I am having double vision for sure. There were no complications with the surgery and I am doing great. I feel great being at home and am nursing them on demand. I love their little cries and chin quivers. They sound exactly the same too. We are so excited to have these two little angels with us now. Also, Jeremy is super awesome.