Bailey and Blake with Aunty Christine.

Letter to Aunty Christine

Dear Aunty Christine,

Dear Aunty Christine,

We just wanted to write to let you know how much we enjoyed meeting you for the first time. Thank you for coming and helping mummy to look after us. 

We particularly liked the songs you sang and our favourite was the Good Morning Song. Thank you for being so patient with us when we where a little bit upset.  We really appreciated your loving and caring voice.

When we are a bit older it will be nice to look at the pictures that you took of us together and of our special walks around the lake. We promise to learn lots of things to show you before we see you next time. Mummy tells us that we will be able to see you And hear you through the computer screen, that will be nice. We are sad that we won't be able to have cuddles but we will save them all up for when we see you next.

Also thank you for helping to look after our mummy by making sure she had some nice food to eat and helping keep the house clean and tidy and giving her lots of good advice.

Mummy and Daddy say you can stay at our house whenever you like and we hope you do as we are going to get bigger and need to play games with our Aunty, uncle and cousins.

We love you lots and lots and can't wait to create even more special memories in the future. Cuddles and kisses Bailey and Blake. 

How Bailey and Blake sleep.

Twins delivered in a basket

First day on our own

First day on our own

After a fabulous few weeks as a new family it was time for Mike to go back to work and for me to attempt  looking after the twins solo. Having managed on my own on numerous occasions the last few weeks for up to 6 hours I had been led into a false sense of security.

Bailey and Blake had become slightly more demanding over the last week which had been partly due to a feeding issue with Bailey which meant I was feeding them both every 3 hrs and expressing for top up feeds in between every feed.

So right on cue just as the front door closed behind Mike we had simultaneous crying,  followed by Blake and then Bailey filling their pants within 10 seconds of each other. Changing their nappies didn't stop the screaming so I positioned them both on the bed where I could reach both of them. It then occurred to me that I hadn't heard Merlot the puppy since Mike had left the house. This was unusual as he normally follows me everywhere. I was concerned he may have got out. So In the middle of all the screams I quickly ran downstairs to check. I found Merlot sitting on the rug having a good chew of my breast pump. Disaster! It was ruined. This warranted a quick call to Mike who couldn't have left more than 15 minutes before to tell him how terrible everything was and how the breast pump issue needed to be sorted ASAP. At this point I still have 2 screaming babies and Blake was so red in the face I was concerned for his emotional stability later in life. So I decided to attempt the tandem feed. It was a success and finally we had restored silence if only temporarily. Wow this was going to be hard.

After the feed it was very difficult to settle Blake I was putting it down to his emotionally upsetting morning. Then he did another poo for me but this time it escaped his nappy, went  all over his baby grow and all over the nice white blanket he was wrapped in.

All of this had come after I had been awake since 1.45  and perhaps managed another 30minutes sleep before my day fully started.

A day like this had me considering my choice not to get any help and it was a serious topic of conversation when Mike finally returned from work that evening. At which time I was pacing the floors with 2 babies in arms and had been for 2 hours. My wrists where killing me and I could have fallen to sleep on the spot.

If your thinking it can't be that bad because she has time to write a blog post. I just want to make you aware that I began writing this 3 days ago whilst attempting another tandem feed.