First week...

The girls are sleeping right now so I thought I would write down some feelings and laughable stories on things so far. On the day of discharge we discovered we couldn't find the alarm/beeper to our car. We had the keys but the alarm was never attached. Jeff went to dig out the car (snow storm while we were in the hospital) and warm it up to go home. Of course the alarm went off during both of these trips and continued to go off for a minute before it would shut off temporarily. I forewarned the nurses about our issue as they wheeled me down with Seren in my arms (she was too little for a car seat and needed use of a car bed which the hospital has loaned us) and Kendall in the car seat. We laughed about it a little as we came out the doors and the car alarm was going off. The nurses and Jeff got the girls settled in and the babies didn't seem to mind the alarm too much. Jeff thought it would stop going off after we got driving for a minute...it did and didn't with random alarming. I giggled about it and thought it was a funny story to tell them when they were older. About halfway home we got a call saying we'd forgotten some discharge papers and my pain med prescription. We continued home since we were so close and I returned to the hospital a little later in our other car (taking out/off the driver's side rear view mirror on the way out of the garage). Our cars were not having good days that day.

Anyway we have survived the first week. Both our parents and some family have been in the house to help out and been life savers. Nesting kicked in for me after they were born as I found myself unable to relax and sit down in between feedings. I had to clean and organize and put Christmas stuff away, etc. as it was driving me crazy to not. I hit the wall about 5 days into being home and had an emotional breakdown though and just crashed in bed for an hour or two in the middle of family being over for dinner. Things are a lot better now although I can still tell my hormones are adjusting.

Breast feeding has gone pretty well. Seren is our "baracuda" with it (the hospital pediatrician called her this due to her suck/bite being so strong). Kendall is a little less practiced at it. She didn't take to it as well and had issues with jaundice for a couple days and then with spitting up pretty bad and all this leading to some weight loss for concern. The pediatrician we saw for the jaundice had us get on a sensitive formula (we had tried a few different things prior to this suggestion) and that helped with the spitting up. She also told us that if Kendall wasn't eating and having diapering appropriately to call her on-call and they might need to re-admit Kendall to the hospital. Talk about heart ache. I felt so bad even though I knew we were doing everything we knew or could (I just don't think we realized her behavior with the jaundice was so off) that I just started crying in the office. We had Kendall on the lights for jaundice for most of a day and her level came back lower then they thought it would be and then the next one came back in normal range. Less then a week later I think Kendall has improved greatly. She hasn't been throwing up just rare times with small spit up, she's more alert and nursing better too and from what I can tell body wise and eating wise she has been putting on some weight. Both Kendall and Seren are to be fed every two hours and they have each been taking in about 1 1/2 to 2 oz at each feeding. So they both seem to be on the right track.