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I love my children.

Everyday I wake up, I'm thankful for the little blessings God has gave me. My son Jacob is my mini me, he's so much like me. It may be hard at times, but its all worth it. I'm molding them with my love and attention so they can grow up to be healthy adults. My favorite word is Mommy, there is so much behind that one word.

The twins are almost a month old!

I get no sleep, and its not the babies fault. Its social media's fault. I need to take naps when they sleep but I turn to facebook or twitter.

My twins are breastfeed and formula feed. I have Zola on Neosure but I'm going to switch to enfacare. I've used Enfamil with Jacob and it's easy to mix and the smell isn't that bad. Nursing the twins is hard! My boobs hurt and the pain is sometimes unbearable. Zev latches on perfectly but Zola doesn't. I think its cause she so small and she can't open her mouth as wide as Zev does, or it can be nipple confusion. Idk but I'm so happy Zev latches on good cause I hate pumping and I rather just have him nurse. I have the Medela pump and I have a good amount of milk stored so far but I feel like a cow being milked. I barely pump with Jacob, plus it was easier cause it was only one baby and he nursed well. When Jacob was about 3 months he started latching on wrong, and OMG the pain! I had to stop nursing him for a few weeks so I can heal and we had him on formula. He seemed to like formula after that so I kept giving him formula plus the breastmilk. Jacob was a very chubby baby, chubby and happy. So I just bought a Medela nipple shield online and I'm going to use that when I nurse Zola. But other than that everything is going great.

TWINS!

My twin pregnancy and their birth

THE TWINS ARE HERE!

Zola Clair and Zev Carter were born on September 11th 2014. Zola was born at 12:50pm and Zev was born at 1:04pm, I think I got the time right, everything was a blur that day. On September 10th I came in for a ultrasound, and things changed fast. Zola was much smaller than Zev and she was in distress. The doctor told me that I should go to Labor and Delivery right away. They were all very serious and it kinda made me panic. I wasn't expecting to have the babies that day, I was hoping maybe they will give me a induction date for that following week. So me and my mom rushed over to the labor and delivery floor with no hospital bag or birthing plan.
Everything moved so fast, I couldn't believe they were going to be born. So they gave me a room and hooked me up to iv's and stuff and gave me pitocin. When I came to the hospital I was already 4 cm dilated so that made things even faster. The pitocin didn't work for about 5 hours. Then around midnight I started to feel a little cramping. It wasn't anything bad till that next morning. I woke up with an oxygen mask on, and I have no idea when that happened, my mom said something about my oxygen levels were low when I was sleeping. But that next morning was hell. I was so close to getting an epidural, but I didn't. The real contraction pains came that morning. I couldn't think, breathe or move!
I felt Zola coming down, It was like something dropped "down there."  So my mother rushed out to get a doctor cause I wanted to epidural and the nurse had a nerve to tell me it will take about 2 hours till I can get the epidural. TWO HOURS, so I broke down after that, I was in shock and I now knew that I'm going to push twins out with no epidural. So my doctor came in to check me and he said I was fully dilated. Everyone was shocked cause it all happened fast. So they rolled me over to the o.r. to deliver. They were about 2 doctors and 8 nurses in the room with me. I hate the operation room, it was so bright. Everyone was shocked that I had no epidural and I think my mom almost fainted. She never saw a live birth (she missed Jacob's by a few minutes). Zola was only 3.9 pounds when she was born and didn't have to go to the nicu. Zev flipped after Zola came out. So he came out breech (butt first) and was a lot easier than pushing out Zola. Zev was a lot bigger than his big sister, he was 5.3 pounds. They didn't cry much, they were very calm babies. The whole process was pretty fast and unexpected, but.I would't want to go though it again!