I have been very naughty and have not done my blog for what I thought was a few weeks and turns out to be 2 months!! Times has gone so so quickly, the boys are now 13 weeks old and I am loving every minute with them, they are brilliant. They are just at the age now where they have started laughing at me and best of all when you sit them opposite each other they laugh at each other which is really cute! Isabella is being a brilliant big sister she really loves them and is always loving towards them. She does get a bit jealous sometimes and says I am not getting any cuddles which is of course not true! We do get stopped by people all the time which is nice but can be time consuming, for example when you are in a supermarket and you know you have limited time before a baby starts crying, yet everyone talks to you about twins, so you want to be polite but you want to go as well!! The usual things people say are...oh double trouble you've got your hands full...are they identical to which Isabella rolls her eyes and says why do people ask if they are idenkital!! ...do twins run in the family (yes I am a twin) ...bet you don't get any sleep... etc etc!


I can't believe people can't tell the difference between them as Percy is fair with piercing blue eyes and Roscoe is olive complexion with dark hair and dark brown eyes and they are facially very different too.

We are still demand feeding which is fine, often they do feed around the same time, however Roscoe usually has couple of extra bottles than Percy. If I am out I have to feed them in their double buggy side by side, if I am at home I sit on the sofa and lie one either side of me, If I am at a playgroup I sit on the floor with them lying either side of me. Next week I am taking the 3 of them away on my own to visit my parents so I shall share the experience of taking them away on my own next week! (Hopefully I won't be too harrassed!)

I have been very naughty and havae not done my blog for what I thought was a few weeks and turns out to be 2 months!!  Times has gone so so quickly, the boys are now 13 weeks old and I am loving every minute with them they are brilliant.  They are just at the age now where they have started laughing at me and best of all when you sit them opposite each other they laugh at each other which is really really cute!  Isabella is being a brilliant big sister she really loves them and is always loving towards them.  She does get a bit jealous sometimes and says I am not getting any cuddles which is ofcourse not true!  We do get stopped by people all the time which is nice but can be time consuming, for example when you are in a supermarket and you know you have limited time before a baby starts crying yet everyone talks to you about twins so you want to be polite but you want to go aswell!!  The usual things people say are...oh double trouble you've got your hands full...are they identical to which Isabella rolls her eyes and says why do people ask if they are idenkital!!  ...do twins run in the family (yes I am a twin) ...bet you don't get any sleep... etc etc! 

I can't believe people can't tell the difference between them as Percy is fair with piercing blue eyes and Roscoe is olive complexion with dark hair and dark brown eyes and they are facially very different too.

We are still demand feeding which is fine, often they do feed around the same time, however Roscoe usually has couple of extra bottles than Percy. If I am out I have to feed them in their double buggy side by side, if I am at home I sit on the sofa and lie one either side of me, If I am at a playgroup I sit on the floor with them lying either side of me.   Next week I am taking the 3 of them away on my own to visit my parents so I shall share the experience of taking them away on my own next week! (Hopefully I wont be too harrassed!)

 

To continue the story from last week...  After the recovery room I went to the ward.  The ward in hospital had 4 other people in it and has to be the noisest place on earth! You can hear everyone else and you are also closest to the nurses station so you can hear everything in outside aswell.  I'm not going to say much about my hospital experience as some of it was positive and some negative.  Some of the staff were outstanding however I found they were really busy so sometimes Roscoe was going 5 1/2 hours without a feed as I needed help to try and breast feed.  Percy just looked like he was never ever going to feed so I was expressing and syringe feeding whilst trying to get the boys to breastfeed.  In the first 3 days I counted I had 50 minutes sleep!  I just wanted to go home as Isabella was struggling with me being away, I wasn't getting any sleep and it is just so much more comfortable at home.  After 2 nights I came home.  If I had been in a side room I would have stayed longer to try and establish breastfeeding however I felt it was really crowded and I could get more help at home by having Roger there especially through the night.

It was nice to be home however then I was faced with a catelogue of disasters which I will write about in my next blog!  Needless to say in the end after all our disasters, I had to give up trying to breastfeed as I never seemed to have time to even express.  I would be just about to and some well meaning visitor would come round which meant that I would miss yet another feed so in the end with much regret I had to put the boys onto the bottle with formula as I was getting engorged and never having time to try them at the breast.