So at the end of yesterday post i left off when the babies were born and we were back in recovery. We were there for an hour or so... i don't really remember. Then they moved me to my room. The C section was a breeze as I always stated was my first. Dr Lu does good work. While in the c-section i had the weirdest pains in my shoulders... they kind of chalked it up to needing to relax my shoulders but it was strange. Afterwards i of course had some of the shakes form the spinal and was very nauseous... i didn't have that with Kyler i don't think . The next day i had to get up and walk and all that jazz... it was no walk in the park but not as bad as anyone would expect after being cut open. My chest was a little soar and they said that was due to the dr pushing so hard... and that they did... as one time i thought his elbow as going to come through that curtain! But I recouped and was up in no time. By day 3 or so i was walking all the way down to the cafetiere! Can't keep this girl away from food! The cafeteria borough back lots of memories of my days there with Kyler. I would walk down there and set and eat just to get a few minuets out of the NICU!
Here was our first actual picture of both of the twins together on day 2. Looking back you can't really tell that Rylee had much more hair then Wyatt... of course hers kept growing and his thinned out and today they are complete opposites when it comes to hair. Rylee still have tons of dark dark hair, and Wyatt just has a little light brown hair.
Daddy trying out holding both at the same time:
Now Mommy trying out holding both:
Then we loaded up for our journey home:
Here was Rylee when we got home:
When we got home Dad and Nancy were there and Sheldon's mom had brought Kyler over and made us lunch. Then the circus began! We did really good. Kyler stayed with Sheldon's mom the first night as we was not sure what to expect. I was still nursing and that was a challenge let me tell ya! They wanted to 24-7 and I was no Holstein! We kept it up for about another week and decided 1 my boobs could not take it any more and 2 they were not getting enough to eat according to their weights! But no worries... they loved their bottles! We spend the next week or so sleeping in the living room... me, Sheldon and the babies. We were up about every 3 hours to feed and this just made it easier. We then moved them upstairs in their cribs. We have two cribs and planned to not put them together to get use to it... plus the SID's hazard we thought it would be best. But let me tell ya... you soon learn what you plan goes out the window must of the time. At about a month or a little over they kind of got a cold and slept better in a incline so we started sleeping downstairs again in their swings and bouncy seats. this continued for a couple weeks, then we had a Kirksville trip. They were sleeping so good in their swings that we decided to continue until we got home from that. They were to the point where they would for the most part sleep all night in their swings! It was hard to decided to go back to the crib with that going on! But I knew it would be best and the longer we waited the harder it might be. By this time though we were in hard core winter. Our house is old and the heat is just on the main floor. In the upstairs we just have baseboard heaters in each of the 3 bedrooms. SO to help on the heat bill we decided to close off the stairway and try not to heat but just the downstairs and the bedrooms upstairs as needed. So we pulled one of the two cribs downstairs in the spare room. Sheldon loves to sleep on the couch anyway so he sleeps on the couch while the babies share the one crib and i sleep in the bed in the spare room. So we transitioned them into that crib and the rest is history as 6 months later this is still our sleeping arrangements. Kyler took over our bed in our bedroom upstairs as there is a TV in there and he likes to watch a Cartoon each night before bed. But this helped tremendously over the winter only heating one bed room upstairs and being close to the kitchen for making bottles in the middle of the night.
The twins do really well in the same crib even through i am very on edge about their blankets and stuff getting up by their face! Any more then move around so much that it don't matter where you put them they get to the other side of the bed. One will be kicking the other in the head? Or hitting them with there swinging arms! It is also kind of funny because if you lay them beside each other or set them beside each other they always try to hold hands... it super cute. Anyway... today they are still in the same crib and sleep pretty good. It seems like one will wake up each night... never the same one. The night before last Rylee woke up at 4 and then Wyatt made it till 5:30, but last night Wyatt woke up about 4 and Rylee make it till 5:30. So doing pretty good there.
Ok.... I think i will end this post there and will have a few more to fill in the blanks between all that. See ya soon!!!
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