8 Step Program

When I hear a baby, in the middle of the night, I like to break it down into 8 steps. I need to feed, burp, and change each one (6 ticks total), go to the bathroom, and pump (my least favorite) so as to b ready for the next feeding and to not explode. During the day I nurse as much as possible as it is more pleasant than bottles. I am pretty good at double nursing now but not great. At night, it is bottles all the way. In theory so others could help, but in reality so I can go faster because I have not noticed anyone but me feeding them in the middle of the night. A just did a 5 hour stretch, I wrote everything above in the time it took me to pump two bottles and type with one hand, and now I am feeding V with one and typing with the other. One more hand would be nifty. The other day I was nursing one baby and trying to put M's hair up in a bun, e definite two hand job. I tried to make M use her free hands to help but it was not working, so I had her hold the baby attached to me as he (or she?) nursed, while I quickly put her hair up. We both noted that if she dropped the baby it would have been really bad, so I do not think we will try that trick again.  My 8 step program, when all goes smoothly by the way, can be executed in 50-60 minutes. Not bad. Especially if you get to sleep 5 hours in an uninterrupted fashion right before, like I just did. If the time were not changing, I could probably sleep another 3-4 hours. But I woke up at 3:21 on my watch, and the computer tells me that is it 4:55am, so I see that I lost an hour, but also, that I am getting faster, because  i am at step 7with V, so if he goes back to burp and then sleep in .5 ounces, I am all set in record time!