Hospital Life

I am going to post a bunch of entries that I have written over the past 5 months about life as a new mom and all the new things with the twins but wasn't able to publish because of our Internet access.

Believe it or not I really liked being in the hospital. I thought it was great with the exception of one day when I had a lazy nurse. I liked being waited on, having my food brought to me, never having to clean up, having free baby supplies, always having help with the babies, lying around in bed all day, and the list goes on. Brian on the other hand felt like he never left work for a whole week and was so ready to go home and sleep in his own bed. He said the fold out chair felt like sleeping on a gym floor mat. On the 5th day we were there I was discharged around noon but didn't actually leave until 5:30pm and Pat was like are we ever going home. I just wanted to milk it for as long as I could because I knew once I got home the to do list would be never ending.  One thing that was a tremendous help and made my time more enjoyable was that Lindsey came every morning around 6am to help me for the day when Brian left for work. If I didn't have help I would not have been able to always keep the babies in the room because for the first 24 hours I wasn't even allowed to get out of bed. I'm not sure Lindsey thought she would change so many poopy diapers on her spring break but I'm so glad she did. I didn't even change their diaper for the first time until they were 4 days old because I had so much help but it was also really hard to bend over because of the c-section. Since pregnancy was not that enjoyable for me I was glad that the hospital experience was. That is probably the only part I am looking forward to again if or when we have another baby.

My two precious peanuts

 Aunt Lindsey hard at work. This is the chair that folded into a bed for Brian to sleep on. 

A view of our crazy hospital room where we lived for a week. In NYC it is not common to get a private room unless you want to pay like $1,000/night but since Brian works at Columbia we were able to get a private room for free as an employee perk :)

Lots of visitors

 First Time holding my babies

 Twins

 Hadley Rose & Hudson Michael

 The diapers were so sad they were as big as their whole body

 Family Picture

 Their first bottles with Daddy

Tired Daddy

Pretty Flowers