Wednesday, July 30, 2008

twins!

so Angela (tristan's bio mama) gave birth to twins about 3 1/2 weeks ago. they were only 31 weeks gestation, and 2 and 3 pounds each, so they have been in the NICU up until now. this situation has actually been ting a vast majority of my thoughts, prayers and time. why , you ask?
well, when god had it in mind that we should pray for our enemies, he had a great idea. most "step moms" don't get along well with the "biomom" especially in a strange situation like ours. but after years of struggling and finally praying about the situation, i would say that her and i are good friends.
how cool is that. GO GOD!
anyhow, i have been doing the whole breasstfeeding promotion thing for like 6 months. she didn't have a good time at trying BF tristan. but, due to my natural lactavist tendencies, and my post partum doula training, i gave a million pep talks. so for the last 3 1/2 weeks she has faithfully pumped (exclusively!) for those two beautiful little s. and now the big one is coming home tomorrow, and i went down to the hospital from 8-11pm last night to help her latch her on for the first time!! the baby latched PERFECTLY both times, first try both times!
it was better than i had prayed for. so i am seriously praying that she will keep t up , for those babies and herself!!!
i will post a pict of them, if i can ever remember to take my camera!!

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