A week in the life of a triplet mummy – Day 4 – Thursday
Well after our eventful day yesterday, it should be a little calmer today! The boys awoke at 2.30am on the dot and I managed to get them down again by 4am. Harry and Lucas had terrible griping pains, poor little sausages!
They are up again at 7am and John and I do the feed together. They are wide awake this morning and ready for a little play so I spread them out across the bed whist blowing raspberries, kissing their chubby little faces and squeaking various bright toys in front of them. I can’t even be bothered to have a shower this morning, so I have what I like to call a ‘farm yard wash’ instead…it will do for mooching round the house all day!
Mum’s boss and her family come round at 10.30am and help me feed the boys. They are very sweet and ever so prim and proper…I mind my language and find myself putting on my posh telephone voice. Her little boy bounces around the living room exciting the dog and trying to use the baby toys as dog toys (I bite my lip and make a mental record of the toys in question so I can stick them in the wash).
Our posty arrives at 12 (quite early for him!) and delivers my new podee bottles. They are bottles that don’t have to be held when feeding and perfect for feeding multiples (so they claim). I bought them so that I could feed them out and about by myself and it will hopefully allow us to be a little more mobile. I know some people who like to use them at home, but I like the one on one time you get when bottle feeding them in your arms so I won’t be using them when I am in my house or someone else’s.
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| Podee bottle – I must get pictures of the boys using it. |
The boys are still totally zonked after their injections yesterday so I am able to get their mountains of bottles washed before the next feed and I quickly scoff down some chicken and veg soup (lovingly made and frozen by John’s mum) before they wake up. I think people making us food is one of the best things that’s been done for us, we have a whole freezer full of dinners…I don’t think we’ve ever eaten so well!
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| The bottles are breeding… |
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| If there’s one job I hate more than any other, it’s washing up! |
I order their compact cots from Kiddicare in the hope that they will all fit next to each other. I didn’t even measure the space because if they didn’t fit, I didn’t have a plan B…I decided that I would make them fit! My Dad’s partner comes over to help out at the 2.30pm feed. She comes baring gifts of washing powder, 3 tubs of baby milk and a nice fish cake dinner for us – nom! She kindly hangs about until 6pm so that I can get some sleep for an hour before the next session kicks off at 6.30pm.
John’s mum and dad are desperate to come round and see the babies again so they come over for the 6.30pm feed whilst I pop out to the shops to grab some much needed essentials (chocolate). They told me off saying that they could have picked the stuff up, but to be honest sometimes it is just nice to get out without the boys for half an hour (even if it is just to go to the shops!). We have a ritual whereby at 6pm every night we put ‘The Fresh Prince of Bel Air” on the telly and sing the theme tune whilst the boys stare at us in dismay – gotta love the cheesy lines and the horrific 90’s fashion.
I have a little read of my Gina Ford book (which also arrived today) after their feed…god this woman is strict isn’t she? I like the concept of her book and I will definitely be implementing some of the bedtime routine stuff, but I’m not going to be military about the rest of it otherwise I think it will be very easy to feel like I’ve failed. I think I will get cracking on the bedtime routine on Saturday once their new cots have arrived and they are over their injections.
John does the 10:30pm by himself and I snuggle up in bed at 10pm with my GF book…I manage about 2 pages before falling fast asleep.
Nappies: 20 (one of which didn’t even get done up before Harry peed all over it).
Nap time for me: 1 hour
Number of nightmares about GF routine: pending
The Triplet Diaries 