the Forest is growing!
Forest is in a growth spurt, eating every 2 hours and becoming noticeably bigger and stronger. His little cheeks are filling out with baby roundness and his back is growing larger. Pictures to come!
breastfeeding – 3 months
Three months of breastfeeding without any bottle supplements, except when I run out for of the a bit on weekends. We have started giving the boys one bottle feeding each weekend just to get them used to having a babysitter since Grandma Peggy and Grandpa Paul are watching them overnight for us next weekend. [...]
recent changes
There have been a few recent changes that are interesting.
They boys have started eating every 2 hours during the day, but then eating less often at night (yay more sleep!). This is tough on me during the day because it basically means feeding a baby every hour because the boys often end up on different [...]
digestion
Did you know that breastfed babies can go a whole week and poop only once?? And there is nothing wrong with them!
Poor guys, digestion is so painful for them. I read that 3 months is when their digestive system gets more relaxed and won’t hurt them so much. Since this is the cause [...]
past week
This week Brad’s Mom, Peggy, was in town to help us with the boys. Boy am I grateful! Brad and I got to get out to run errands, have dinner with friends, and just in general relax. I even got a much needed chair massage at Whole Foods yesterday afternoon. I can [...]
6 week growth spurt
The boys are going through the 6 week growth spurt right now, which means they are demanding to be fed any where between 1.5 and 3 hours. Usually together but a few times one has been sleeping and the other wanted to eat an hour or two after the last feeding so I’ve just [...]
Doing it and doing it and doing it well
Today I figured out how to feed both boys at the same time by myself! They were both awake and hungry and I am feeling finally able to try various things so… Now to figure out how to take care of both reflux babies after eating.
I kept track of the boys eating and sleeping all [...]
various things
Breastfeeding is going well. I have my moments when I worry that I’m not producing enough and such, just because I’m new to all of this, but the boy’s weight gain and some pumping experiments have proven that all is well.
Cloth diapers are not working out for us. I spend so much time doing laundry [...]
breastfeeding
Last week we attended the “Breastfeeding Multiples” class. It was 3 hours long, which is honestly way too long to ask a 3rd trimester multiples’ mother to sit, no matter how many breaks you have. That’s my only complaint. Otherwise it was very informative as one of the local lactation consultants concentrated [...]
