One Month Old

The trio sleeps while they were still in the hospital

Once again I slack tremendously on the blog updates, thanks to all have pushed and prodded me to update the blog.








Sophia and Gabbi play


Kim had the idea that we should stay the night with them one night and both get up for each feeding, to make sure we can handle the process. I don't recommend this to our faithful readers, as all it really did was wipe us both out the next day. We stayed the night Thursday and Jack and Gabrielle came home with us on Friday. But little Nate had to stay in the hospital till he could do better on his feeding.

Jack and Gabbi - profiles

The first night home we tried a new e strategy: one of us goes to bed at 10:00ish and the other would do the midnight feedings. Then the one who was sleeping earlier would get up at 3 and 6 and do those feedings. The idea here was that we both could get a chunk of solid sleep (5 hours) that could be remedied with a nap during the day to make it more conducive to living a normal, less sleep deprived life. The concept was good... but there were a few glitches the system. For this night, the main glitch was that no one told the babies that they are supposed to go to sleep afte their midnight feeding. So from 1:30 to 3:00 they squawked and squawked, which had me checking on them every 15 minutes or so. I got a little more sleep after the 3:00 feeding, and then after the 6:00 feeding I was already up, so I started on my household chores. Tired.... but productive :)


So here it is Tuesday, May 29th, and we are hanging out at the hospital with Nate on what is (so we are told) is his last day here. Tomorrow, we will be a complete family at home.. YAY!

Gabbi says "let the fun begin"

Our feeding system seems to be working pretty good for the most part... but we will need to convince the little ones that their awake time is during the day and not at 3 in the morning. Plus adding Nate to the whole mix may change things.


Jack and Gabbi seem like they have jumped leaps and bounds in just the 4 days they have been home, and Gabbi has already scored higher on the PSAT then 40% of the juniors in Washington State. Okay, so maybe that is a stretch, but they are doing quite well. When we first took them home, it would take 30 - 40 minutes to get them to drink their 2 ounces of their bottle. The first ounce would scream by, then the remaining ounce we would have to continually wake them up, and shove it in their mouth to get them to take it. Now... they it's about 12 minutes to finish a bottle, which means quicker turn around on our sleep, another YAY!