1 Month Check Up

Well, AleVit is really 5 weeks and 2 days but today is when we went for this doctor's visit. It was a gorgeous day, so we walked and I peeled layers off until I was in a sleeveless shirt. A is now 8 lbs even (she gained 1 lb 1 oz) and V is a whopping 9 lbs 3 oz (up 1 lb 7 oz). My pediatrician has 5 month old twins of her own so it is nice to chat with her. She told me I was her "hero" for solely breastfeeding these babies and for being able to to tandem (not the bike, think two babies attached simultaneously). At this moment in my life that is one of the best compliments I can receive- that I am an efficient feeding machine. It helps ease the occasional monotony of it and the feeling that my babies look at me and see a huge breast with milk or a milkshake (like in cartoons when an animal is shown as a dish as imagined by the hungry person). I may spend most of my time feeding babies, but at least I am doing well with it. Feeding them out of the womb is definitely more time and calorie consuming that in utero. Off to sleep!