My Life's Ingredients

Imagine that – my girls are already 5 weeks old!! And we haven’t killed them yet . Doing both well, although they have been kicking up some fuss last night and shortly before the first feeds on my own (i.e. once DH and his parents have left the house) yesterday and today. Wondering if there’s some growth spurt involved… Today the Health Visitor (Gillian) has been to do a quick check up, and to weigh the girls, and here are the stats: Kara – 3.11kg (6lb 13 oz) – up from 2.89kg (6lb 6oz) Megan – 3.68kg (8lb 1oz) – up from 3.45kg (7lb 9oz) Sounds good to me, and after being told last Friday by the staff nurse Louise (who’s helping/checking for the BFing) to go 4hrly feeds during night time we now get the ok to go 4hrly feeds during the day for Kara and Megan can go to feeding on demand. Still have to figure out how we’ll handle that as it could mean more interrupted time if they’re not on the same level, but you never know. I also have a “best buddy” who’s helping with BFing, b...

Just started watching "Once upon time...Man" again - with the girls. And in German ... makes sure that I speak to them in German, too. LOVE this series  and the other one ( Once upon a time ... Life ) and actually asked for the DVDs as Christmas presents before we even got pregnant. ;-) The "Once upon a time ... life" actually helped me a little with my Sports Therapies studies in a fun way. :-) The German title song of "Man" by Udo Juergens is soooo great and just shouts to be used in the future on a  layout about the girls!!! German lyrics are below. Weißt du wieviel Sterne stehen Und wohin die Flüsse gehen? Sag', warum der Regen fällt, Wo ist das Ende dieser Welt? Was war hier vor tausend Jahren? Warum können Räder fahren? Sind Wolken schneller als der Wind? So viele Fragen hat ein Kind... Ach Kind, komm' laß die Fragerei'n, Für sowas bist du noch zu klein, Du bist noch lange nicht soweit. Das hat noch Zeit... Refrai...

In Mothercare clothing that is. Today’s visit from the Health Visitor showed that Megan is now 2.99kgs (6.9lbs), and Kara (the wee older sister who’s weight has us worried because she’s soo tiny in comparison to big little sister Megan) is now 2.57kgs (5.11lbs). Which is incidentally Megan’s birth weight. So, whenever I find the time, I’ll have to sort out our “Early Baby” size clothes (i.e. anything up to 5lbs). Didn’t last long, but I’m glad both are putting on the weight. We’re still on 3hrly feeds, but I think we’re getting used to that routine, and somehow I think mothers tend to cope with less sleep once the routine comes into force. I’ll take a nap after the next feed, mind. We still have to work on the breast feeding, but we’ll get there. Don’t think I’ll BFing 100%, but planning on bottle feed EBM during the night feeds (currently SMA during nights). The health visitor will be coming around at a feed next time and then, hopefully, we’ll get things started. Sorry that t...

Unbelievable! Time really flies. And yet they're not officially "born" yet - funny thing with the adjusted birthdate, specially when it comes to the 6 weeks check up - I need to go after 6 weeks from c-section, while the girls have to go 6 weeks after official EDD (which was 24/8/11). Health visitor is coming today, hope to get some info - DH and I have accumulated lots of questions again. ;) List people!! Regarding yesterday's photos ... I thought "Peter Pan's Lost Boys" the minute I saw them. Don't you think???? ;)

Well.. ok, it doesn’t really count as a full day, as a) the inlaws stayed overnight and did the 1:30am and 4:30am feeds while I just had to express milk b) the inlaws were here until lunchtime and passed the girls to me for the feed and did the nappy changing and took the girls out for a walk so I could get quickly showered and settled in the living room. And DH was giving Kara the bottle while I was feeding Megan. Reason for that is that DH is back at work from today, 4 days per week for the next 6 weeks (I believe), before he’s back the full week. Quite daunting thought, with him only around for 1.5 weeks with me and we didn’t really establish a routine for me alone. I kinda envy my friends whose partners/hubbies stayed for longer, but on the other hand – I have to cope with things at some point. Recovery from c-section for myself is going well, but I think it’s just like after the laparoscopies – I might do too much too early, so this week I’ll just do the feeding (not tande...