Friday, November 17, 2006
Typical Triplet Day
I thought I would post about a typical triplet day here in our house hold. Lets start at Midnight....Mommy and Daddy wake and "dream feed" the triplets and quickly put them back to bed. Daddy goes to bed and Mommy then pumps to get milk for the next feeding. After pumping and watching a little Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Mommy finally goes to bed. Around 4am, Mommy usually has to get up and give someone a binki that has fallen out of someones mouth and then Mommy goes to bed. Between 6-7am babies start to wake and fuss. Mommy gets up and heats up the breastmilk bottles and wakes Daddy to inform "its time to feed babies". Daddy grumbles and slowwwwwly gets up and grabs a baby. Mommy gets 2 and we feed. After they eat, the babies and Mommy go into the other room so that Mommy can pump more milk for the next feeding. By the time Mommy is done the babies are ready to go back to sleep and off we all go back to bed. Daddy gets up and gets ready for work and leaves. Mommy then tries to get up before the babies wake for their next feeding around 11am. Mommy eats, maybe gets dressed and brushes her teeth and lets the dogs out potty (on a good day), then Mommy feeds all three at one time with the help of 2 boppys. Its playtime and getting dressed time. Then its once again time for Mommy to pump out more milk with my little triplet baby audience in attendance. The babies then go down for a nap and will sleep until the next feed, which is around 1pm. Now Mommy will try to get some things done around the house while also playing the binki game with the babies. The binki game involves Mommy going back and forth into the bed room about 100 times in 10 minutes to put binkis in babies mouths when they keep falling out. It never fails I go in there give a baby and binki, walk out of the room and make it back to the kitchen and guess what another baby is crying and its back to the bedroom I go. I do that all day long. The babies wake I feed them and they generally want to go right back to sleep. Mommy watches Days of our Lives while pumping for the next feeding then its off to do more household chores and play the binki game until 4pm. Mommy feeds again and then tries to take the babies and if its a good day a dog gets to go on a walk with us. Then its back down for a nap and mommy tries to get dinner done and pump more milk while Daddy plays the binki game. Babies are back up around 7-8pm, we feed and snuggle a bit and off to bed they go and we are at the midnight feeding time again. So that is a typical day, granted that is a summary with out all the crazyness and mishaps that happen all along the way such as me trying to pump milk, having babies screaming, dogs barking and the dogs puking on the floor all at the same time, or mommy not getting to eat because the babies all want to scream at the same time and everyone wants to be held by the mom at the same time, etc. Its a new adventure everyday and some are way worse than others, but for the most part we have some sort of system down for now and I am thankful that they are great sleepers!
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