Saturday, October 2, 2010

Is it time to eat?

I have been a lazy blogger lately. That is because my day goes something like this:

  • Somewhere between 2 and 6am- Jillian wakes up and comes into my room to crawl into bed with us. Sometimes I let her, sometimes I send her back to bed. It depends what time it is and how much fight I have in me.
  • 7-8am Chloe gets up. I nurse her, take care of her tube, change her diaper, etc. Get Jillian breakfast.
  • 8:30am Feed Chloe cereal and some fruit.
  • 9am Wash Chloe's hair and helmet. Let helmet and hair dry. Get Chloe dressed
  • 9:30am Realize I haven't had breakfast yet. Drink a green smoothie.
  • 10:00am Put helmet back on Chloe, put her down for a nap. Take a shower. Get ready for the day, play with Jillian and get her dressed.
  • 11:30am Chloe wakes up, nurse her. Get lunch ready.
  • 12:30pm Feed Chloe baby food.
  • 1pm Put Jillian down for a nap. Sometimes this works, sometimes it doesn't. Play with Chloe
  • 2:30 Put Chloe down for a nap, if I'm lucky both girls will sleep at the same same time for an hour or two. Most days I'm not so lucky.
  • By 3-4pm both girls are awake. Have a snack. Pray for Sean to come home soon because by this time Jillian is driving me crazy.
  • 4pm Nurse Chloe
  • 4:30pm Start dinner
  • 5:30-6pm Eat dinner, feed Chloe. Remember I have a spouse. Talk to him in between Jillian yelling, "Mom, talk to me!"
  • 6pm Do dishes
  • 6:30pm Make formula to go into the feeding pump for Chloe.
  • 7-7:30pm Place tube. This can take 5 to 30 minutes. Chloe is sometimes cooperative, sometimes not.
  • 7:30pm Nurse Chloe
  • 8pm Put Chloe to bed. Attempt to put Jillian to bed. This usually fails. Give up and let her sit by me while I play on the computer for a few minutes.
  • 8:30pm Attempt to put Jillian to bed. Success! At least for 5 minutes. She's up and down until 9-9:30.
  • 10pm Pump
  • 10:30-11pm Go to bed.
  • 2am Start all over again.

Does it seem like I am always feeding someone? Because that's what it feels like to me. And this is why I don't get much blogging in these days. I will be happy when Miss Chloe can drink from a cup because then hopefully we can get rid of the tube! She refuses to drink formula (which I can't really blame her, that stuff is nasty compared to breast milk) and I can't pump enough to replace what she's getting at night. I know that the helmet and tube are just short term fixes but sometimes it feels like my day revolves around taking care of medical stuff. I'm not meaning to complain but I wanted to document what my days are like so when I'm done I can be thankful that this was just a short crazy time in my life!

2 comments:

Sheila C. said...

Wow! what a day (or day's you have) Call me and I will come and tend and let you take a nap!!

Melissa said...

Wow! Seriously, mothers are amazing people. You should be proud of yourself for the way you serve your two little girls (I'm thinking of Elder Holland's talk, by the way).