I can't believe my baby girls have been in this world for almost 2 weeks already!
They are now both in open cots and we are busy working on establishing breastfeeding, so they are officially known as "feeders and growers". Word on the street is that we may even be able to go home on Xmas eve! What an awesome xmas present that would be!
My beautiful girls continue to surprise and delight me with the funny faces they make, their squeaky noises, the bubbles they blow and their little gazey eyes. Just when I think I couldnt love them any more, I fall in love all over again and just that bit more. I especially love their "kissy kissy" faces - when they pout their little lips. Sooo cute! And they also do a Joshy face, where they wrinkle up their little foreheads as they try oh so hard to open their eyes. Love love love my baby girls.
Breastfeeding is amazing when it goes well, but we havent mastered tandem feeding. So it totally upsets the apple cart if one decides that she isnt ready for bed after all, and starts to give hungry cues whilst I already have another baby on the boob. So overwhelming! We do sometimes try to put both on at the same time, but then one will fall off, and as I'm trying to get her back on, the other falls off, and then I have to try and get both back on, and I feel like I'm watching a ping pong match as I go back and forth between both girls, trying to see who has their mouths open wide enough. I'm hoping tandem feeding will become easier as the girls latching gets better. Fingers crossed!
Nothing worse than a crying baby (or two crying babies eeeeek!), and I can't tell what she wants. Ava was crying yesterday after 2 goes on the boob, and she was doing hungry cues, opening her mouth and moving her head around. I couldn't believe she was still hungry though as she'd had a solid go at the breast. But we put her back on (tandem) and sure enough, she wouldn't latch on. She was screaming by this stage, but I found that once she got into the feeding position (lying on her side), it seemed to give her some relief, so I'm thinking that she had a sore tummy and lying on her side or tummy fixed it. We tried this again after another feed and it seemed to settle her pretty quickly.
Anyway, it's after 2am, so I should head back to bed. There is so much I want to write and remember about these early days, but the internet connection at the hospital is not the best. And when I do get to write it all down, I feel like my words are not sufficient to record these amazing days and moments. How do I capture these emotions I feel? I'm so scared of forgetting moments that I'd love to share with these girls when they are older. And time is flying by so quickly and lack of sleep is starting to make my mind fuzzy.
We played our baby playlist today as I breastfed and it was beautiful. I fed Ruby last and as she fell asleep in my arms, Joshy wrapped his arms around me and we swayed to the dulcet sounds of Ray Charles. And I thought, now this is what I always thought motherhood would feel like, only this is 100 times better. So lucky to have these two beautiful baby girls in my life x
I can't wait to meet our little girls, to give them the biggest hug and kisses.
ReplyDeleteYou are doing an amazing job Karina & Josh and hopefully it gets a little easier once they get the hang of feeding.
They are such pretty girls, they certainly take after their mother.
I cannot believe how much I love them already just from photos and chats that we have had.
I have documented all the texts that have come through starting from the Monday they were suppose to arrive, I hope to have some great stories to tell the girls when they are older.
Love you heaps and heaps Karina and kissy kissy to our girls and Josh xoxoxxo