Skip to main content

{the Glenn twins: 8 months}

8 months!

 

My boys are finally BOTH sitting up, hooray!  That’s such a game changer for being able to play, etc.  We are working on having them both hold their own bottles, whew! That’ll be nice when that happens consistently, they are doing better.  G and T are growing like weeds and eating us out of house and home.  SERIOUSLY, y’all.  Feeding two boys is going to be NUTS.    They are becoming very good eaters and have now tried sweet potatoes, broccoli, green beans, peas, bananas, oatmeal, applesauce, mashed potatoes, the list goes on. At first, Thomas wasn’t that interested in food, but he has slowly come around and will eat anything now. Graham will make himself gag on food if he doesn’t like it, it’s quite hilarious. 

 

Typical schedule:

 

WAKE: somewhere between 7 and 7:30…  even Graham is sleeping till then now, no more putting a paci in between 5:30-7…so proud of my little guy!

7:30: 6 oz

WAKE and PLAY

9: fruit/oatmeal

10:30: 6 oz.

NAP (typically 1.5-2 hours)

12:30:  fruit/veggie

1:00:  6 oz.

WAKE and PLAY

NAP  (typically 1.5/2 hours)

4:00/4:30: depending on how long nap is: 6 oz.

6:00/6:30: veggie and 3 oz.

8:00: BATH and 4 oz. and 

8:30: BED

 

In the BIGGEST news of all for this month, I nursed my baby boys for the VERY LAST time on Sunday March 1….the day they turned 8 months.   Man oh man…why do us mamas have to question this decision so much and worry about it?!  SO MANY emotions, but ultimately I decided it was time to be done.   On one hand, I’m super proud of myself for breastfeeding twins for 8 months, on the other…I know I could have gone longer and put more effort into pumping/keeping my supply up if I had truly tried.  BUT, you know what…I was over it, and I always told myself when I got to that point I would stop.  Although they both had to have formula in the hospital, I would say they got 95% breast milk the first three months of their lives…. Probably 80% breast milk in month 4…..75% breast milk in month 5 and then 50% breast milk in month 6.  (Those boys eat a lot!  And I only produce so much!)  Months 7 and 8 I began to wean…I went from pumping or nursing 6 times a day to 4 to 2 and then the last week I just did it once per day.  It was at the point where even if I did nurse them we would have to give them a bottle too because I wasn’t producing enough.   But, goodness gracious…the emotions and thoughts that come along with this decision….should I have pumped more and tried to keep my supply up?  ….stayed on fenugreek longer?  ….the list goes on.  But, ultimately, I felt the time was good…even though I was sad because this will be the last time I breastfeed ever, how weird?!  So, I’m sad the journey is over, but proud that we did it for as long as we did.  

 

Now, on to some cute pictures of my favorite boys!











Comments

  1. you are such a champ! Can not believe you nursed twins for 8 months. You go mama!! That's amaze to me. I only lasted one measly month with Cade but I definitely want to try for much longer with this one since I think I will have a better idea of what the hell I'm doing. I hope to invest in my own pump (borrowed last time and this time I can pass along this new one to my sister next...eventually...hopefully...so we get our money's worth) Any recommendations? I'm looking into the Medela Freestyle? You're the pro, I need recs! :)

    ReplyDelete
  2. So proud of you! I remember having the same feelings and thoughts when I weaned Evans at 6 months. You are a champ!

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

2019 family Village Creek trip

Our 2019 summer family vacation was everything I could have asked for, and more!  This year, my parents and nephew joined us for the week so we had extra fun!  (and extra chaos of course, too!)  We did ALL the things, but yet also did ALL the relaxing.  We arrived on G and T's actual, bday so we started our trip with a special birthday lunch in downtown Beaufort with just the boys since Collins rode down with my mom.  We also finally experienced the drive in movie that night for Toy Story 4 and it was AWESOME!  We only had one day of cloudy weather so that was awesome!  We ventured to Bohicket Marina, Harbor Town, Harbor Island, Edisto Island, Botany Bay, our favorite sandbar AND downtown Beaufort by boat, we had a ball!   My dad got some AMAZING fireworks and we had a little show for the culdesac, so much fun!!  Mikey and I even got to sneak out one night for a date night, headed to our fav, Sal

These are the days.

Goodness gracious, I LOVE summer.  I talk it to death every year, but it is especially important to me during this season of life where the school year brings homework/schedules/strict bed times/extra curricular craziness- I appreciate the LAZY days of summer EVEN MORE. I've tried to be intentional about taking a half day here and there to soak up TIME with my babies.  Because Lord knows, they aren't babies for long.  (Yes, I'm referring to my 7 and 5 year olds as babies- #cantstopwontstop ) When we returned from our anniversary trip, we got back early on a Tuesday and used the rest of the day to spend quality family time together.  We took the kids to a local water park, this was all of our first time visiting- and we had a ball!   That same week, my girl and I dressed up and attended her very first company banquet for dance, too much fun!  Lake days with friends are sooooo good for me- we've so enjoyed many of them this summer

My Pinterest inspired master bedroom makeover part one.

The BEFORE pictures. I've been itching to re-do my master bedroom for quite some time now. I am one of those people that likes to re decorate quite often...unfortunately for my bank account. Mikey's mom bought him a full queen sized bedroom suite when he graduated college, which was wonderful. It is very nice furniture and has served us well. But, I am SOOO sick of all the dark matchy-matchy look it brings. I will use this furniture again in a guest bedroom one day...but for now, it's time to retire it from my master. All of my bedding and rug I had previously...I've now had this zebra/brown/green theme for almost 4 years...so over it! Fortunately for us...my brother and SIL got a new bed...so what do we get?? Their old KING size bed!! Woohoo. I do NOT like for people to touch me when I sleep, I need my space...I've been wanting a king for so long. Even though our room isn't the biggest the king is working out okay...we aren't going to be in this h