How to balance twins in NICU
My modi twin girls were born at 29+1 after a few bleeding episodes with placenta previa and vasa previa. Generally we’ve been very fortunate that our stay has been uneventful so far. They are 30+4 today.
I had a pretty traumatic c section and I have a 2 year old son at home. I’m still struggling to be up and active all day long so long days at the hospital are hard. I also cannot drive right now and my husband is already back to work (saving his leave for when they come home). My husband and I also decided to try to keep our sons routine exactly the same so we do daycare pick up and dinner/bath/bed as usual.
I’m struggling right now between managing pumping and trying to help with both girls care times plus skin to skin. I’ve only really been able to manage doing 1 baby skin to skin per day which makes me feel awful. I want to give both girls equal attention but it feels like between random tests, changes to care, etc it makes it impossible. I just need some advice to help with the guilt. I know once I’m more healed I’ll be able to do longer days at the hospital and it’ll be easier but for now it’s hard.