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Wednesday, August 20, 2008

In Realizing That I Have Big Boys...











I decided today would be a good day to blog about them as babies, and what life was like then. When we first brought "the twins" home, life was chaos...all the time! I wasn't working which helped, but here's the thing...Todd worked 12-15 hours a day and I had people to entertain. My parents stayed for about a week after the boys came home, after about a week, my grandma came and stayed for 2 weeks, a couple of days into her trip, my cousin came to stay for about a week, and soon after that Todd's parents came to see the boys and say good bye to him as he left for Iraq. It was a crazy time but I look at picutres like these, and all the chaos fades away, and all that's left are memories of babies. Lane was so content...as long as he was fed, he was happy. Ethan wanted held more, he was always moving, even then. But they were such good babies! Ethan needed mylacon drops with a lot of his feedings, he also needed tubes, but never really cried about anything. As early as they were, I got really lucky. They were fragile but they didn't have any complications! Todd was a big help to me then too, he got up through the night with Lane (Ethan was up all night every night) because he was rarely up...they each went through a phase of being up all night unless they were in thier car seats....but Ethan at 5 has just now started sleeping through the night. Both boys stayed on the same formula, so there was no need to keep track of who ate what, just who ate when and how much. We color coded bottles for that, but there's really only one picture that I can't tell them apart...but if I look close enough I think I can tell....they were just so different.

Can you tell I have babies on my mind? Everywhere I go it seems someone has a baby or is soon to have one. Yes I know I have two beautiful children at home, but I would like a third...I think of little else in my free time...it might be that my house is completely ready for a baby, we have a basinet in the living room, a high chair in the dining room, a boppy in the basement, a bathtub in the bathroom, and a bedroom with clothes, toys, a bed and all essentials waiting upstairs. Everywhere I go in my house, it's staring at me expectantly, waiting patiently, but can I leave it there for another two years, can I look at these things that long. Should I? So, I'm preparing, I'm writing a birth plan, and so far, my husband doesn't agree with any of it! LOL! I wouldn't mind laboring at home for as long as possible, walking at home, showering (a LONG shower) at home, letting the boys stay with me there for as long as possible, let them see and experience the not so scary...and not the shower part...but the rest, we have a finished basement that I would like to set up as a place for me to do this, and then when we get closer to time, head to the hospital, and try to avoid intervention and medication, just to try. Now if anything happens, rip me open and get the baby out with full intervention but this is just something I would like to happen. I would also like to not know the gender of the baby, I would love to be surprised, I saw on TV last night where one parent knew and the other didn't, I wouldn't mind doing that...we have everything we could possibly need for either gender, so it really would work for us, and anyone who wants to know, Todd can tell, as long as they don't tell me...of course little ones wouldn't be allowed to know, becuase they would definately blow it! LOL! I would like for the baby to be laid up on my belly, and left there until after we are able to breastfeed for the first time...the nurses will have plenty of time to do their thing after I hold the baby, and the biggest for me, is don't yell at me during delivery unless it's an emergency, I want to experience this, without all the yelling...I think all very easy. On the other side of it, I know that things never work out that way...I know that in the excitement there will be yelling, and someone would slip up and tell me the gender, I will get agitated and maybe want meds...but still, I love the idea of these things happening! It's a nice thought...

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