by Amanda Trumpower | Feb 25, 2019 | Twin Mom
“Sleep when they baby sleeps.” “It will pass.” “They’re only this age once. Enjoy it.” “If you get frustrated, put the baby down and take a break.” This is some of the advice we’ve heard in the last month. Well-intentioned. Factually correct. Spoken by people who have...
by Amanda Trumpower | Feb 12, 2019 | Twin Mom
Our first picture as a family of four Jayce has been home for about two weeks. Justine, a week longer. I am shocked to see how many days the calendar thinks it’s been. With as little as we are sleeping, we live about three days for every set of 24 hours. We have...
by Amanda Trumpower | Jan 28, 2019 | From Hospital to Home
This is a picture of Josiah looking at Justine as she sits in her swing. Let me tell you about it. The days have been hard in the Trumpower house. On Justine’s first night here, she slept in the Pack’n’Play in our room. Rotating through her care schedule every three...
by Amanda Trumpower | Jan 6, 2019 | From Hospital to Home
I am not a fan of today’s news. We received a phone call yesterday evening from the nurse practitioner. Jayce has a urinary tract infection. To treat it quickly with antibiotics, they had to put his IV back in. He should immediately feel better once the...
by Amanda Trumpower | Jan 5, 2019 | From Hospital to Home
Jayce had a liver ultrasound yesterday. We have more information than before. We need additional time and tests to see what the future holds. The good news: Nothing they saw indicated a need for immediate surgery. The liver was the correct size and appeared to be...