At the Hospital

We spent a total of 6 nights at the hospital. The boys were born on the Saturday morning, Tracie came out of the ICU on Sunday afternoon. She was still very sore and had not yet been out of bed. That night she got up and had a shower and went back to bed. We had some family and close friends visit that night. It was fun to show off our beautiful boys. The boys slept ok that night, and the next morning Sal had to leave very early as we were moving house. We had planned this move whilst Tracie and the boys were still in hospital as we thought it would be easier to do it then, rather than when they came home. Tracie's mum spent the day with her and the boys and helped a lot. Sal was away for almost 12 hours and it was an awful day for both of us. That night we were both very tired and exhausted and the boys were very unsettled. The boys (Benjamin in particular) only let us sleep for 2 hours...... we were exhausted to the point of tears.

The next few days were better.... The boys were upset because they were hungry and Tracie's milk had not yet come in due to the big bleed that she had. That next day (Tuesday) we started to feed them formula and they were much happier. We had a quiet day the next 2 days and had some more family and friends come visit. On the tuesday we gave the boys their first bath. It was fun!! Both boys enjoyed floating in the warm water, but hated getting undressed and redressed.

Sal bathing Benjamin

Ethan having his first bath.

The rest of the week went very quickly, we had many more visitors and went to visit Tracie's friends down stairs (she works one level below the maternity ward in the theatre complex of the same hospital). We took many photos of our beautiful boys and even had some professional photos taken.

BENJAMIN

ETHAN

Throughout the week we tried to breastfeed the boys, but for several days Tracie did not have any milk. Towards the end of the week the milk came in..... but breastfeeding is very difficult with twins! We want the boys to have breastmilk, so Tracie is now expressing and bottlefeeding both breastmilk and formula. We will keep trying with the breastfeeding when we get home.