Quads Being Raised As Triplets

Monday, January 19, 2009

Bottle Feedings

What do we do when we have no volunteers to keep the babies on schedule here are a couple of examples.

The 5AM Feed

The keen observer may notice the pink bib on Teddy, yes it does say "Little Princess". Teddy says "Real Men Wear Pink." :)

The Daddy Feed

Alexis wanted to be in the pictures, she does not really suck her thumb she was being silly. :)

Sunday, January 18, 2009

I feel like the whole feeding and changing is a never ending process with 3 babies and of course a toddler (in diapers) and a 5 year old who needs to be fed. So I thought it would be fun to share some photos of how many diapers and formula we go through, and here they are.

Okay so here are the diapers we go through in a day, sometimes 30 for the babies and 7 for the toddler, so up 37 diapers a day wow!!!

Here are the bottles we go through in a day!!!

And the approximate amount of formula in a week!!!

The reason for it all!!

So Well worth it all!!!! :)

Saturday, January 17, 2009

The Nursery

I thought I would share some pictures of the nursery.

Here is Teddy's crib.

Another view of Teddy's crib by doorway.

Bridgette's crib, the lovely closet turned into changing station. Samantha's crib right next to her.

Bridgette & Samantha's cribs next to each other.

Samantha's crib next to large dresser.

The window, you can see the dresser that is next to Samantha and the chair next to Teddy.

We just did a complete circle around the room. All of this squeezed into a nice 10X12 sized room. The cribs are Mini cribs.

Meet The Gang!!

My first born Alexis just turned 5. She is a huge help. Alexis weighed 6 pounds 5 ounces at birth.

Then Olivia she turned 2 just 11 days after the babies were born. She loves to snuggle babies. Olivia weighed 6 pounds 13 ounces at birth.

Samantha the first of the Quads. Weighed 2 pounds 9 ounces at birth.

Bridgette number 2, she weighed 2 pounds 5 ounces at birth.

Theodore "Teddy" - Our little Man, he arrived weighing 2 pounds 9 ounces.

Madeline - this is her at 3 days old she lived for 9 days. She died from NEC (Necrotizing Enterocolitis) She weighed 2 pounds 1 ounce at birth.

Madeline

Our sweet Madeline Jean, had 8 very good days in the NICU. By day 3 Maddie had moved to high flow nasal cannulas for breathing, she was taking feeds and as spunky as ever. On day 8 she became ill, her stomac became enlarged, she was critcal, on day 9 the Doctors took a look inside and found all of her intestines and half of her stomac had died. We had her baptised and held her, as soon as she was in my arms skin to skin with me, we removed her breathing assistance and let her go very quickly and peacefully. We would later find that the cause of her death was NEC (Necrotizing Entrocolitis). We feel blessed to have had her for 9 days.