nearly 7 weeks... it seems like forever

Wow, it has been nearly seven weeks since I gave birth to our girls. So much has happened in the meantime:

Emma has had a cold

Emma at one point wouldn't wake up or respond to stimuli. Went to the GP who immediately send us to the emergency department of the Ipswich hospital. He wanted her seen to within the next 15 minutes. We got there.. and 2.5 hours later we were still waiting. We got so shitted off with it all that we packed up the girls and went to the Wesley emergency and she was seen to straight away. Luckely she had woke up a while before and was fine. They don't know what caused it.

Emma got her brace taken off on Monday. She is now trying to catch up on 5 weeks of wriggling. I think moving hurts her a bit because she is very fussy and that is very unlike her.

Caitlin developed a fever during the week. She now has a snotty nose and a cough.

I got really sick about two days later. We ended up getting a nanny in for two days to help out. I'm still not 100% but atleast I'm not having high fevers any longer.

Normal day-to-day stuff:
We're working hard at establishing a routine and mostly this is going well. An average day looks something like this:

5:30-6:00 am – Babies wake up, play/cuddle time until it is 6:00 am. I try not to feed before that because that throws everything else out.
6:00 am – feeding time
6:30 am – 8:40 am Playtime & tummy time in the playpen. They often have a 30 minute nap in this period.
8:40 am – feeding time
9:10 am – 11:20: - dress babies in their day-clothes. Then playtime
11:20 am – feeding time
11:50 am – 2:00 pm: naptime for babies. I sleep too during this period
2:00 pm – feeding time
2:30 pm – 4:40 pm : playtime/walks/shopping etc
4:40 pm – feeding time
4:40 pm – 5:30 pm playtime in playpen, they sometimes snooze for a bit.
5:30 pm - we eat dinner.
6:45 pm – 7:15 pm Bath time and change into bedclothes
7:20 pm – feeding time
7:50-ish - bed-time for babies.
8:00 pm - bedtime for mum & dad

We let them sleep until they wake for their next feed, usually about 10pm-ish but can be as late as 11:00 pm.

10:00 pm - Feeding time

We let them sleep until they wake for their next feed, usually about 2 am-ish but can be as late as 3 am.

2:00 am – Night feed .
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The girls are growing well. What is classed as 'good' weight gain is 20gr a day. This comes to 140-160 gr/wk. The last 4 weeks the girls have each gained well over 200 gr with one week Caitlin putting on a staggering 500gr.

Caitlin now weighs 3.8 kg and Emma just under 3.5kg.

Well they are awake again so I better get the day started. Maybe i'll have time to post more tomorrow....