Owen & Ava: Feeding

Let me start by saying, intellectually I knew that infants had to eat, this is pretty obvious. I am sure that someone told me prior to having kids that when they are really little they have to eat something like 8 times a day and I am sure that I thought something like, I eat 8 times a day, that ain't no thing. And maybe even with one baby that would be doable, the issue is with twins it is 16 times per day (at a minimum - look out for when they go through a growth-spirt), so lets say best case each feeding currently take about 30 mins (actually baby holding time, between convincing them that it is time to eat, doing the pre-burp, feeding them some, burping them (this is REALLY important we found out today, much to Ava's outrage :-( ). Doing the math that is 8 feedings per day, times 2 kids, oh! that is the aforementioned 16 feedings, now at 30 min per that is 8 hours! WOW that is a lot of time feeding something (s). I guess that is also bonding time - right?

Now all of this is well and good if the other baby is sleeping or the other 'adult' is around; however if both of these conditions are not meet it is all about triage and for Tracy and I this is happening sometime between 8pm and 1am (for me) and 1am and 7am for her (looks like I should either get-up earlier or stay up later). Which you can imagine is not when we are at our best. Last night I tried to write down what happened during a feed, needless to say that I am now doing this off of memory:

9:35 Start feeding Owen - 2 oz formula
9:36 Owen decides he is not hungry
9:36/ 15 sec some how he has manged to pee out of his diaper
9:37 Change daiaper
9:38 Put owen on bed to put on new onesy
9:39 Owen desides to spit-up on bed, of course i put his head off the protective water super cloth, luckily tracy thought ahead and put an washable blankrt on the bed, over the dry clean only
9:58 Just over 1 oz in owen gets the hick-up poor kid
9:59 Try 'normal' ways to get rid of hick-ups: scare the baby - (that was not a good idea - please don't tell Tracy); drinking upside from a glass (would that work with a bottle? - no is the answer); honey on spoon (I had this vague recollection of honey being fatel to infants so we are going to skip this one. I am out of ideas
10:00 Ian does research on hick-ups:
First off I realized that hicks-ups are actually spelled hiccup (huh)
If you are interested in what I found check it out (http://www.burpingbaby.net/baby_hiccups.htm)
Basically it is normal and they don't mind
10:14 Start again
10:15 Finish 2 oz still hungry, but his sis is fussing now

That is the last thing that I wrote. I have this vague recollection of sitting on the floor with one half burped Owen (who can not hold his head-up) propped up against my leg while I am holding Ava trying to feed her and wanting to ensure that her brother's head does not snap-off. I think that I got everything 'back under control' around midnight.

As bad as I have it Tracy has it worse, she has the added pressure of trying to express (this is such an odd word for this) her milk on top of dealing with the same stuff I have been doing. She is so great - I love her so much!

Feeding Pictures (mostly)
(Just because they are so stinkin' cute)