Fly me to the moon

A bit of trivia for you. Today, Sara identified the song that was playing on the stereo in the op theatre when the girls were being born. None other than Frank Sinatra's rendition of "Fly me to the moon".



nice :-) Looks like that is now a song for life girls. (tips to any future boyfriends! :-)

Sleeping habits of the pink and cuddly

Cie often decides the position to sleep in.

Obviously this shows she was not all comfortable in under the blanket.

Tired days

We are tired. The girls are great, it's still a 3 - 4 hour sleeping cycle. Last night was particularly bad. We put the girls down by 10, and were in bed by 11. Then we were up at 1am. That was fine, put them down by 2:30, but Willow destroyed the cot; managed to pull a leg out of the cloth waste receptacle and it just went everywhere, so sometime around 3am, I changed the cot but Willow would not go down.

I sent Sara to bed (girls fed the rest was a blokes task) but of course, Willow cried and fussed and turned and kicked for 2 hours. Guthy-Renker tried to sell me someting stupid for a few hours and I was going crazy. Once my job sorts out, where ever we live, I am getting pay tv. (or a subscription with JB hi-fi).

.. so 2 - 3 hours sleep. It was hard core.

They are good though.

Big days!

My how things change quickly. On Sunday afternoon, Sara and I were chilling at Naomi and Tracey's waiting for the "opening hours" back at the nursery. (parents kicked out between 1 - 3pm), and the hospital called. .. We had been invited to stay at Possum Corner, which is the room / bed where parents "stay" at the hopital for 24/48 hours before they go home.. yes that's right. Go home.

Sara and I stayed at the hospital 2 nights, Sunday, then Monday night. We didn't tell many people, but kept it a small secret unless it impacted plans of others. We wanted our own special 2 days with them. It was amazing, that first night rooming in with the girls was great.

Sara and I did the round the clock breast feeds, no bottles or tubes, and then we did it again Monday night .. and guess where I am now. At the faithful kitchen bench, girls asleep and will be waking for the 12am feed, .. at HOME.

Tuesday (today) we got all the bits ready, discharge papers, clothes for the home trip, head bumpers for the car seats, (cradles really), and off we drove, at about 11am (ish) and to Manly, where we lugged them and luggage up the stairs and into home.

So far, it's been good. Mum and Brian were here, they flew in Monday night and we were not expecting to be out, so we told them when I picked them up at the airport that we would be coming home tomorrow... lots of fun.

The day shifted their routine a little as we had a few doctor interruptions which moved feeding time back an hour (or fwd) but Sara has readjusted that by comping with a bottle feed for Willow at 7pm, then feeds at 8pm.
yay!

Anyways .. see photos for more luscious fun with our girls.

Amazing!

We have survived a week. To be honest, it is pretty easy for blokes. We worry about the finance and house and car and stuff, but Sara the sheer exhaustion and physical demands she has to put up with are way beyond my current input.

Sara has been amazing. She has managed to have our girls only on breast milk, no formula, and even I know how important that is if you can obtain it. Sara has been on a 3 hour / 24 hour rhythm. 1 for sleep, 1 for eat, 1 for feeding. Cie and Willow are fed by both tube (expressed breast milk) and breast feeding, but this is taking them some to get used to.

We bathed them for the first time on Monday. They loved it, fell asleep after, and now their hair is(are) all fuzzy.

I have just come from the hospital to work. That is hard, I could spend all day with them, but it's that tug of knowing you have to work to make sure they have what they need. But my cuddle this morning with both of them and each individually for over an hour was just magic.

We will be doing this trip for a few weeks yet. Up at 5/5:30, to the hospital by 7:30/7:45 and go home later in the evening. Sara will stay at hospital all day, and I duck off to a cafe to work.

My girls are just beautiful.
r.

Welcome Cie & Willow

Starting with a swim at Fairy Bower, 5am in the morning, we were
prepared as we could ever be.

We arrived at the hospital, ready for a big day we knew for sure.

At 10am we were ferried around to theatre, myself in scrubs, and Sara ready.

With much process and procedures in place for good measure and care of us ...

we welcomed into the world

Cie Ella Rain Buckland - Born @ 11:47am 29/01/2008 - 1865g
Willow Sky Grace Buckland - Born @ 11:49am 29/01/2008 - 2000g

The girls are well, we have just come back from the special care
nursery where they are located, having spent 45 mins there with Sara
and the girls.

We are going to lay low at hospital while our gorgeous daughters put
on some weight in the special care nursery, as we can't take them home
until they are a little bigger and stronger.

We are at the Royal Hospital for Women, some people have asked, but we
do ask for no visitors at this early stage. Certainly, we are on email
and by phone if it's on.

Thank you all for your prayers and support. We shall talk soon.

(and the all anticipated pictures)

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love Ramon and Sara.