Hellobee

I’ve been trying to write a “Day in the Life” post since the boys were about 3 weeks old.  It has taken me 5 weeks to actually successfully track what happened for a full 24 hours at our house.  The boys were exactly 8 weeks old on the day I did this, which is 4 [...]

Hindsight is 20/20, and I’ve learned a lot in the last 7 weeks that might have made my breastfeeding experience much more successful.  While I still occasionally try to nurse, we’re pretty much a pumping exclusively and formula feeding family due to a variety of reasons, but primarily: (1) low supply, (2) inefficient nursers, (3) [...]

The Babies Blue will be one month old in just a few days–time flies when you are living your life in three-hour repeating cycles! Having survived the first month of being first-time parents to twins, here is what we have deemed our “essentials.”  Yes, I’m sure we could have lived without some of these, but [...]

Before jumping into the meat of this birth story novella, let me be an absurdly proud mama and introduce you to the little boys who are making my world go round.  Meet Elliot & Finn. (L) Finn & (R) Elliot Love these little guys!  Now on to the details.

This post was written Wednesday, March 6, 2013.   So, the Babies Blue will be arriving next week at an undetermined time through an undetermined method of delivery.  Yeah, there’s a lot up in the air, and this little . . . ahem . . . gigantic mama is ready to have some decisions made.  Here’s [...]

There are so very many reasons that I love the hospital where we will be delivering, but very high on that list is this: they have a free doula program! We will be giving birth in a teaching hospital, which has advantages and disadvantages.  Our local teaching hospital is much more cutting edge than our [...]

Back when we bought furniture for the babies’ nursery, I fell in love with the idea of making the dresser something that would be unique. In the midst of our very Ikea-esque room, it would be the one thing that no other babies would have.  We bought an unfinished oak dresser from Ikea with plans [...]