Finally Coming Home

Matthew and Michael

Michael
Matthew

We finally got to bring home the babies today. Tim was a little nervous, he was a little touchy with the breaks which kinda of jerked me around in the car more than the babies.

Daddy dressing the babies to go home

We brought the babies inside and looked at each other and both said, "Now what?" We are so happy. I am sorry that you did not get this update yesterday. The babies were actually easy up until 10:30. The doctors said to feed them every 3 hours no more than 5 hours. Okay, I am used to that especially when in the hospital it the babies were brought in for a 3 o'clock feeding and didn't latch on until 4, the nurses still brought them back at 6.

They were so good when we first got home

They ate so good when we got home and had not problems latching on, Tim has to hold their but in place so they will calm down and start sucking. They are having no problems pooping at all. When we first got home Matthew needed his diaper changed so Tim did the dirty work, well when he was lifting his legs to wipe Matthew started peeing and it almost went in his own mouth. Later Tim was holding him while I was in the other room and he farted really loud. Tim said he felt the poop hit the diaper.

Now, last night or should I say this morning was a hell of a lot harder. Michael wouldn't wake up at all to eat and Matthew kept crying and crying. All I could think of was to feed him or burp him. Eventually he fell a sleep. No one told me that when you are feeding from one side you leak from the other. That was not fun I had to have a towel there all night. We have a Dr. appointment today at 1 to look at their levels of jaundice. If their levels are high we may have to start adding some formula, which is okay with us, that will be the very early morning feeding, like the 2am. I am trying to let them sleep so I can feed them right before we go. Hopefully waiting 4-41/2 hours doesn't make me a bad mom.