7 weeks

Life is a lot of fun with newborn twins.  All my 4 other babies were pretty big from the beginning so I've never really had the chance to have a little baby for long.  I've also never really been a little newborn baby lover, I like it when they can interact with you better.  My mind and opinion have changed and I have loved being a mom to two little babies.  Jaxon is a pound lighter now than when Joseph was born.  No wonder so many people told me he was like having a 2 month old.  I never really understood that when people told me and now I know.  I even am considering when I go back to being a nurse to do NICU or nursery.  

Our days are kind of the same over and over again and I don't have much time to get out.  When the boys were about 5 weeks my friend Emily who had twins told me that if I wanted the boys to nurse that I should just take the plunge and make them learn.  At this point when I would nurse the boys, it would still hurt and the boys would be really fussy after nursing.  I thought that I would give it a try and so I spent almost the whole next week just concentrating on nursing.  By the end of the week it was going pretty good, but the boys weren't as happy as they had been.  My sister in law, Amber had come into town and was a huge help so that I could work on the nursing with the boys.  I was even only nursing and feeling pretty good about things, except for the more fussiness.  When we went to the 6 week old weight check up, the doctor didn't like that they boys were not gaining weight like they should be and so we had to reevaluate what we were doing with their feeding.  Well, long story short, the boys weren't getting enough food and we started feeding them bottles after being nursed and they gobbled all the bottles down.  This was very frustrating.  Now I am to nursing only once a day and bottle feeding what I pump the rest of the time (or formula if I don't have pumped milk).  The whole process takes about 1 1/2 hours to complete and sometimes 2 hours.  This includes changing their diaper, bottle / breast feeding, pumping, burping.  This is all that I do it seems.  

Stats for 7 weeks:  Jaxon 8 lbs 11 oz  & Jordan 7 lbs

Growing babies!