Our Triplets Journey

I've mentioned this in a couple of posts, but I'm really starting to see the three boys sync up in amazing ways now. I was hoping to experience one or two things over the years, but little things keep amazing me already, at the tender age of not even 10 weeks.  1. Firstly is the hospital visits. The night James was in hospital with Sam, Sam was very unsettled as was Rob. We put it down to the hospital trip with Sam, and being home with us and it being a new house and environment for Robin.  2. When I took Robin to hospital a couple of weeks ago, Sam was very unsettled for those few hours we were away.  At the time of these trips, we thought Will and Sam were the twins, and that this was a triplet connection more than anything else, and also, being unsettled is a baby thing, so possibly no link at all.  3. They are in the middle of cluster feeding on and off. The way we are working it is that if just one wants feeding early, we delay and put them off until feed time. ...

The pram struggle is real! I have a good friend, Mary, who goes to town every Tuesday and always offers to pick things up for us. I needed to get the babies birth certificates into the bank to set them up an account, so I thought I would make the most of knowing someone was around to help me. I knew there was a step into the bank, so I gave her a call and met up with her with the plan that she would help me up the step and into the bank. She was then free to go. A nice simple plan and a huge help for me. However, when we got to the bank, the pram wouldn't fit through the door. Mary and Gillian (her mum) had about 10 minutes before they had to leave so they told me to go into the bank and they would stay outside with the pram. Angels!!! So I joined the queue and watched the circus take place just outside the door. Haha! They had so many people approaching them to ask all the same questions and it was comical watching from a distance.  That pram is like bees around a honey pot. Peopl...

At birth, we were told that Robin and Sam were twins because they had been sharing a placenta. When I was pregnant, it was T2 and T3. Rob and Sam. (Their numbers are different to their birth numbers). But when they were born, Robin was so wonky, and Sam and William looked so alike, it was decided that maybe it was Sam and Will.  Robin was born with a very squashed head. It was long and flat and his forhead was quite pointy. Because of this, he is very jowly too. He has been a very unusual looking baby! Sam and William however, have had perfectly round little tennis ball heads, and it has been very difficult to tell the difference between them. Wills chin is slightly less rounded, his nose ever so slightly smaller and turned up and his ears are very slightly pointier, altogether very elegant features. His complexion is also a little paler and James sees a difference in their eye angle when they are closed. Overall, he has always been very slightly more angular than Sam. All incredib...

Our little litter have passed 8 weeks now! They have also hit their first 'leap'. When Jack was born, I was told about an app called Wonder Weeks. It was a lifeline! I'm not one to follow apps and things because I think parenting is more spontaneous than following something somebody else has written, so I was dubious about it. The way it works is started from the babies due date of 40 weeks. It then indicates when a 'leap' is expected. Babies develop so quickly and go through huge changes in stages. According to this app, it advises us when to expect a few changes in their personality and it explains what is happening with regards to the babies current development. It also gives a vague timeline. It was the timeline that was my saviour as I could see an end through difficult days. The changes in their personality are things like being clingy, cluster feeding, grumpy, sleep regressions, feeding less, etc. We didn't really have many bad phases with Jack, but at le...

I resigned myself, quite some time ago now, that I will never have a clean outfit on, ever again. They didn't stay clean long with a toddler, but now it's impossible. I was burping a baby a couple of days ago, wearing a (nearly) clean top, and I had carefully placed a muslin to avoid the inevitable. But he managed to aim the vom right down my collar. I changed my jumper and put on a new, clean hoodie. I then picked up a baby, possibly even the same one, and within minutes, I had milky dribble down my back and on my shoulder. Screw it, this one is staying on. James and I have matching smears on our shoulders, and patches on our legs from dribble during back patting burps on our knees.  If the babies puke, spit-up and dribble isn't enough, I am a fairly good contributor. Another clean t-shirt this morning was soiled by non other than myself. But, in my defence, I was eating a bowl of cereal, a messy one at the best of times. I was also eating this bowl of cereal with my left ...

The babies had their 6 week health visitor check this week, and she had to weigh Will a second time to double check that she hadn't got it wrong. They have all piled on the pounds and jumped 2-3 centiles each, both in weight and the circumference of their heads! It's apparently not uncommon in pre term babies, but it clearly came as a bit of a surprise for her.  Will and Sam both weigh 8lb9 and Robin is 9lb4. We thought Sam would be closer in weight to Robin, so we were surprised with the result. William is still the smallest, and we thought he was a lot lighter than Sam, but Sam is a bit stronger than Will. Will still feels very floppy in comparison to his brothers, so this will probably make us handle him slightly differently, and therefore he probably feels lighter and more fragile. Robin is solid now and supports his head and back really well, Sam isn't far behind in his strength, but Will still needs quite a bit more support. Out and about challenges I've been look...