Life on a Schedule

So all those years of scheduling our crazy training for different races and adapting to the elements come what may have started to pay off now. The girls were placed on an 8, 11, 2, 5 schedule while at the hospital. 11pm to 2am was a hard on for us seeing as how pre-babies we were in bed around 10pm and up at 5-5am. Now that they have been home for 2 weeks we have been able to successfully move the late night feedings to better match our own sleeping patterns. We have bumped the 11pm to 10pm and and the 5am to 6am. This gets us an extra hour in the overnight sessions.

The girls are adapting well to the schedule change. To them it is just about being fed the right amount to keep them asleep long enough. Many have asked us if we are waking them to feed them on the schedule. The answer to that is Yes. Reason being is that they still need to gain weight and missing a feeding just means calories lost to sleep. We are hoping that we will be able to start doing having them sleep closer to 5-6hours by Thanksgiving... the peditrician will probably have some say-so in that one once we go back on Nov 5th for the 2month checkup.

Speaking of the pediatrician, we really have lucked out with Dr Arkin. He has been willing to go to bat for us with the insurance company to get the girls the Synagis shot. Synagis is a medication that helps babies born prematurely have less severe RSV (aka: common baby colds) if they were to contract a viral strain of some kind. The reason premmies need something like this is because a common cold to them can become extremely severe brochialitis that could put them at greater risk for having to go to the hospital for treatment. Seeing as how we have had a trip to AZ on the books since last November the shot is high up on the priority list IF the insurance company will foot the bill for it.

Outside of the baby-bubble things are going well. Kevin and I are alternating days of tiredness. Kevin's training for Ironman is going accordingly with some minor tweeking to accommodate feeding schedules. I just started running with Titan on a leash and cycling indoors on my trainer this week. The only issue with that is that I do not remember by bike saddle being THAT small before... or maybe its just me being bigger than I remember. HAHA!