The Twinkies

The past day’s schedule:

6:00 PM: B. home. I tell him he needs to take over, it’s been a rough day.

6:30 PM: dinner. Take turns eating while one person attends to whomever is crying.

7:00 PM: Go upstairs to shower. Breasts leaking. Pump. Bring milk down. Both babies are crying. Sit and feed J. while B. feeds F.

8:00 PM: Take 2 on the shower

9:00 PM: Go to bed.

10:30 PM: Pump

12:30 PM: Wake up to pump. Turn off air conditioner downstairs and in spare bedroom (which B. had turned on for reasons that I am sure made sense at the time.) Let cat out of storage room, which she managed to get locked in since 2.

1:30 AM: Feed, burp, change F.

1:45 AM: Pump

2:00 AM: Feed, burp, change J. Pees while changing him. I am so tired I stare at arc of urine in utter perlexity.

3:00 AM: turn out lights, go to “sleep”

3:45 AM: Feed F.

4:00 AM: Pump

4:30 AM: Feed J. Have meltdown. Leave babies in bassinet and go to basement for 15 minutes. They are quiet when I get back. This lasts until I get into bed.

5:00 AM: put J. on chest in hopes that will soothe him. Alternate between patting and rubbing back for 45 minutes.

5:45 AM: Get up. Feed J. Change J.

6:00 AM: Feed and change F.

6:15 AM: Suspicious sound causes me to change J. again. Poops twice and pees once while I am changing him.

7:00 AM: Doula arrives. God is good. She takes over.

7:05 AM: Breasts leaking prolifically. Pump.

7:30 AM: Go to sleep

9:30 AM: Pump

9:45 AM: Go to sleep

12:00 Noon: Nurse F.

1:00 PM: Feed J.

2:00 PM: Feed J. and F., alternating as they cry. Change when done.

3:00 PM: Change sheets on bed.

4:00 PM: same as 2:00, with a bath thrown in (for them, not me)

4:45 PM: B. home early. Watches babies while on conference call.

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