Phew, finally read through everything!
Mars, the website is great (first impressions, I'll go and look in more detail later)! Do you need more photos? I have been taking loads of the dts to try to get a 'better' one than the one I sent you. I also have some of me bfeeding the dts, but the one of hm is great! I got all teary eyed when I saw it.
I'm so glad your first class went well, you really deserve loads and loads of sucess with this, you are wonderful!
Mommalove, I bf ds1 until he was 9 months and really struggled with it, I was mixed feeding from 4 1/2 months, however with the dts (4 months today ) it is going really, really well ! The thing to do is to keep those dts inside you for long enough so they don't need special care for being premature and persist with the feeding. I was lucky that my dts came straight to the room with me, I had fantastic support in hospital with getting the bfeeding started (maternity nurses wanted to give them a bottle as they were losing too much weight, but a bfeeding consultant rescued us and since then I have had invaluable support and advice from Mars). I will say to you again though that it is really worth getting help so you can put energy into yourself, the dts (without neglecting your dd) and let someone else do everything else after they are born. I was quite immobile for the last few weeks before they were born and needed help then as well.
Estar, congratulations on a 4th boy ! Some people are just destined to be boys' mums! dh's sister also has 4 boys and I think felt something like you did in the beginning. I have 3 boys and am really, really happy to have boys. I have a lovely work collegue who has 3 boys and a fourth girl and I quote him 'if the girl had been the first i don't think we would have had anymore!'!!!!
Triplets, I'm just going say I am glad you are feeling better and send you a huge hug!
FG, you are using that word broody again !
Kelly???????
GB, thanks for the link to the Freya website, but I could only find bikinis and my belly is too hideous to do bikinis these days. Thinking again though, if I did turn up at the pool in a bikini everyone else would probably turn and run and I would have the pool to myself ! Its a bit crowded at the moment with the fantastic weather we are having.
Ooogs, yesterday was really not too bad. ds1 is being such a good boy at the moment it makes everything so much easier. I also dropped him off for lunch wiht dh as i was meeting work friends for lunch and wanted to be able to chat. I am thrilled that my only other female work colleague is pregnant , but devastated that she will go on maternity leave just before I go back to work (if I go back)!
Anyway.... I really admire you for putting all 3 to bed on your own, if one of us is not there at bedtime (although I haven't not been there yet)we have a babysitter to help. I've found a girl who is great with the dts, but so shy that ds1 has no interest in her at all. We have also found 2 half american sisters who we will be trying out, I am really pleased with this as ds1s English is really not developing, he needs more exposure and these girls may help!
From next week we are taking ds1 out of nursery for 4 weeks, next week dh has holiday, then we have a student (paid for by a charity) to come and help us for 2 weeks, then dh has another week holiday. I am half looking forward to having loads of time wiht ds1, but also half dreading it as it means no rest and a constant stream of activities planned for him. I just hope the student works out well!
Hm, how is it going?
Dingdong - how is the sleep thing going? I've been thinking more about this and think its funny that its coincided with the dts starting nursery, could be a long shot but what are they feeding them there???????
I've been a bit up and down over the past week (more down than up), I think its just overtiredness, but maybe the reality of having twins has hit me. I have suddenly realised that it is really hard work. Its not the things like double nappies, double feeding that I struggle with, its more the attention they need. They both want to see what is going on and be involved now (gone are the days they would sleep long hours in the pushchair), so I am always sitting with them both on my knees (when we are out, have bouncy chairs at home) or carrying them on my arms, doing that while trying to follow ds1 around is just exhausting (when I am already tired), and i can0t actually play with ds1 when I'm carrying them.... anyway, you allknow what its like. I expect the mood will pass once I have caught up on my sleep a bit more. On the other side they are so adorable, the are becoming more and more aware of each other and play with each others hands when they are close enough to each other, yesterday after i put them to bed dt1 started crying, I went back to them and dt2 was looking at dt1 with a really concerned expression (i'm sure I wasn't just imagining it) and holding onto his pyjamas as if to comfort him. They are also much more aware of ds1 now and like to watch him, he also likes to try ot play with them, it is so lovely! ... ah, feeling better already !
And another good thing, they seem to have started doing a 5 hour stretch at night now without feeding so things are improving!
Well, that's a long post and I could go on for pages.......!