Life with Twins

So many people tells us how they have always wanted twins. Well, here is a small top 10 glimps into what having twins is like.

1. 140 diapers a week! It's a bit less now that they are sleeping through the night. They started that almost a week ago. They may still wake up around 4am, but after putting their binky back in a few times they are back to sleep until 7am. I'm sooooo EXCITED!

2. twice a day making up 8 bottles. That's 16 bottles a day to clean folks!

This is what it looked like to make the bottles up a few weeks ago. I only make enough breast milk to fill about a 1/3 of the bottle so then we have to add some 22 calorie formula. This was something the NICU asked us to use until the twins were 6 to 9 month old so they were certain to gain weight. Then the similac bottle is because we have spitter-upers as babies. The formula has rice in it to make it thicker and stay down. Since this photo was taken we now have a different approach to making bottles. We now make it in the blender ONCE a day and use this gel like substance called Simply Thick to thicken the milk that they drink--the rice formula was causing constipation. I've been able to start nursing them each twice a day (so four times a day for me and the rest pumping).

3. pumping, pumping and more pumping--I hate pumping!

4. go through 20+ burp rags a day--that and blankets, clothes and bibs makes for more wash each day! Thankfully that number has dropped since we started using the Simply Thick. Now we don't have to use as many burp rags and there are some times during the day that we don't have them wearing a bib any more because they aren't spitting up quite as much.

5. double the smiles

Not huge smiles here but they sure are cute!

6. crying in stereo surround sound (especially when the monitor is on)!

7. can't do it alone

This is two of the 7 women in our ward that consistantly came to help during the first month and a half that the twins were home. They would come at 10pm and stay until about 1:30 or 2:00am. That helped us out soooo much. We are also fortunate enough to have someone come and clean our home once a week and we have a nanny that is here during the day 4 days a week. My mom and dad come on Sundays and watch the twins while we go to Sunday School and Relief Society/YM. They also bring us dinner and leave the leftovers. We look forward to Sundays! Doug's parents will drop in when they can too. We really have great friends and family!

8. one pregnancy for two babies




9. a VERY stretched out stomach--will it ever go back to the size it was before?

This photo was taken about 2 months before the twins were born. So I got even bigger than this! Our camera broke in June and we didn't get another one until the day after the twins were born.

10. a boy and a girl, how perfect!