Category: Family

Things continue to improve, both babies are feeding well, the little boy’s blood sugars caught up and now they’re both doing really well. Last night was a tough one for us, though. They began ‘cluster feeding’ late last afternoon through this morning, so every hour they’d be hungry and feed for short bursts. I got my first hour+ sleep between 3 and 4:30 am. Woohoo!

Also, after all the chaos and exhaustion we finally managed to find names that match the personalities of our new kiddos.

Introducing: Lily (Lilian) & Ethan

Everything is going well so far. The babies are now over 10 hours old. The girl is doing fantastic. Feeding well, sleeping well, etc. The boy hasn’t been doing as well at feeding and as a result has had lower than ideal blood sugars.

Apparently this isn’t abnormal for a twin, delivered at 37 weeks, with some gestational diabetes from the mom thrown in the mix. Also it’s typically the kind of thing that corrects itself in a few days. The girl having been both larger (weight) and a better eater means she’s doing better, yet both are generally perfectly healthy in realm of twins.

And here’s a photo of them sleeping about an hour ago.

And here they are. The girl was born at exactly 11 am, weighing in at 5 lbs 11 oz, the boy was born 2 minutes later weighing in at 5 lbs 5 oz. everyone is healthy and happy so far, and Kelly is exhausted and resting in recovery.

Kelly and I just arrived at the hospital for the planned c-section of our twins. We got checked in and Kelly is now being hooked up to the various monitors so they can check in on the babies before surgery. If all goes smoothly I hope to be posting back in a few hours with a pic of the tiny little ones. Fingers crossed!

I’ve been pretty quiet about this, since K and I wanted to make sure everything was going well, but today we had our 18 week ultrasound for our TWINS! Holy crap am I scared, and yet super excited! They’re healthy, each weighing in at 8oz, and growing normally with no signs of any issues. We’d found out a while back they were fraternal, but today we found out the news we were both hoping for: one of each! Now Max gets both a little bro AND a little sis! So, with a little Dr. Seuss nod, the first photos of our new family members: