Flashback Friday: Sometimes Nobody’s Happy

Brina was watching Karlie cry.

On this Flashback Friday we go to May 2005.  The girls were still itty bitty and in preemie clothes.  Some days all it took was for one of them to start crying which would cause the next one to start crying.  There were times when I knew exactly why they were crying and could help them (diaper change, food, etc…) while other times I had no clue.

I didn’t always get everything done on time or necessary in the right order during those days on little sleep.  With the help and encouragement from family and friends we made it through.  Jake was a huge help!  Due to them being preemies and having the occasional apnea they had to wear apnea monitors at home.  It was nice having the monitors go off whenever they had apneas and we never had to worry when they were sleeping if they stopped breathing.

They also had some caffeine in their first morning bottle every day.  The caffeine was prescription based and helped with their apneas.  The amount of caffeine they received would be the equivalent to my husband drinking several large amount of mountain dews back to back.  Needless to say as soon as they stopped taking the caffeine in their morning bottle they started sleeping through the night.  It was really nice once they started sleeping through the night.  It felt wonderful being able to function on a full nights sleep.

Brina decided that if Karlie was crying she should probably start crying too!  The joys of parenthood.