[Somewhat] Controlled Chaos

Friday, April 18, 2014

One Week!

I weigh 4lbs 12 ozs.

I like to eat every hour or two.

I am starting to get too long for preemie clothes.

I am in preemie diapers.

I like to sleep next to Lydia.

I love my binkies.

I weigh 4lbs 8ozs.

I am a sleepy girl.

I like to eat every 3 to 4 hours.

I wear preemie clothes.

I am in preemie diapers.

I'd rather sleep by myself.

Hospital Lifestyle Photography

Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Egg-tra Special !

Around the clock feedings and diaperings won't stop us from getting into the Easter spirit!

Hippity Hoppity Easter's on its way...

Sometimes coloring Easter eggs makes you a little silly!

And finally, our eggs!! Glitter and all!

I enjoyed my big girl time! I missed them so much the last few days.

Monday, April 14, 2014

First Doctor Visit

Three Days Old

Marshall 4lbs 12ozs

Lydia 4lbs 6ozs

Marshall is cleared to come back when he is two weeks old. Lydia will have to come back Thursday for a weight check.

Both babies will have their jaundice levels checked tomorrow at the hospital.

Both babies will be getting a little formula after each nursing session for a few days to a week until their jaundice levels are better and until their weight is up a bit. We had our first formula feeding this evening. It went pretty well. They both nursed. Then they both got a one ounce bottle. After both making awful faces at first, they drank 3/4 of it!

Sunday, April 13, 2014

Were Home!

Will try and do a full update tomorrow. :) But until then we are happy to be home with our girls! Getting settled in and enjoying our family of six!

Saturday, April 12, 2014

Seeing Double?! Or Triple?!

Left- Lydia

Right- Mommy

Coincidentally I was 4 1/2 lbs when I was born too! :)

Left- Marshall

Right- Daddy

Left- Lydia

Right- Alexis

Build A Bear

We started a tradition back with Alexis. And then Payton. We take a photo with a Build a Bear every week for the first year, then every year on birthday. Why a Build a Bear? Well, basically because it tends to be the size of a newborn baby. And why not? Who doesn't love Build a Bears?

The bears were made with extra special love...

Now it's Lydia and Marshall's turn to be apart of our little tradition.

They Are Here!!

Marshall Michael

Born at 307am

5lbs 1/2oz

Lydia Joy

Born at 308am

4lbs 12oz

I just can't get enough of taking pictures of the two of them laying together, if you couldn't tell! And they love each other, it's so wonderful to watch.

A condensed 'birth story'...

Started having contractions steadily Thursday evening at about 6. By 9, I decided to call the doctor. He asked us to wait until they were 4 minutes apart for an hour. Sure enough, I get off the phone with him and the next hour I have contractions 2-4 minutes apart. So off to the hospital we go. They monitored me and the babies for the next two hours. At this point the doctor on call, Dr. Andrew, talks with us about the pros and cons of delivering at 35 1/2 weeks. And we all agreed we felt safe going ahead with the csection. About an hour of prepping later and twenty minutes of surgery we had our babies, now Friday morning!

They both did so well. And health wise doing very well. Both had a little 'grunting', which is just a sign they are having trouble transitioning/breathing. Although Marshall nursed right away in the recovery room, we've still had some trouble with feedings and had to get creative. The lactation consultant coming to see us was enough to make me say screw it, formula feed them! Haha But I'm determined! Lydia has had some trouble keeping warm. But with all this, they have only been taken back to the nursery (away from us) three maybe four times for no more than an hour each time. We are very lucky! And we made great progress over night and today. And obviously this is all quite normal for babies born at 35 weeks! If they keep doing well, they will get to go home when we go home, even better news!

It's a lot of work and quite overwhelming so far, but we are so unbelievably blessed! We even had two special visitors...