Thursday, May 25, 2006

I went to Holyrood today

The last feed went really well. Elbereth took a good feed but unfortunately she did not take much of the formula. She took about 20ml though which is at least something. I will try again tonight.

Malach though took a good feed and he guzzled all of his formula. They settled off really nicely and while I did not get up at 4 I managed to give them a feed from around 5.30 after Wolfie woke up.

I managed to get a bit more sleep and get up at around 8am. The skirt that I ordered last week online arrived today. It is really funky and because it is a smaller size than I normally wear it fits really well even though it is a maternity skirt.

I then got myself some breakfast and got the twins ready for going out. My health visitor collected me to join the rest of the group going into Edinburgh. I did not take Wolfie, as we unfortunately did not have a car seat for him.

The journey into Edinburgh went smoothly and we arrived at the parliament on time. It looks like a really funky building. We went in and some of the women left their babies at the crèche. There was not room for the twins art that point so I fed them and took them around with me.

We then went to get out lunch and the health Minster Andy Kerr came and had a chat with us before giving us a tour of the parliament. We got to sit in the debating chamber and I sat in the first minister’s chair. IU thought that was really funky. We also got to sit in one of the meditation pods and have a really nice tour.

I really enjoyed the day trip. Andy Kerr is really nice and you could tell that he genuinely really liked children. Hopefully we will get the chance to do that again.

The journey back also went really well and when I got back I was able to change and feed the twins again. They have been really good today but for some reason Elbereth bolted her feed when we first got in and it took me a long time to get all of the wind out of her.

I was about to sort out the bottle feeds for the twins. I had cleaned and sterilised the bottles and I opened the formula box when I noticed that the scoop was not there. I had a quick look around before I then went to sort out Wolfie in his bath and put him to bed.



Once I had read to him I continued my search. I was really annoyed with myself. Why did I not put the scoop back in the box? After a while I had an idea and I phoned the number on the box. The woman on the phone was able to tell me how to measure out a scoop and is going to send me out a new scoop.

I then fed Malach before going to sort out their bottles. I will give them those with the last feed of the night. I then managed to reply to my friends E-Mails (I was feeling too down to do so yesterday)

The only good thing that came from looking for the scoop was that I was able to get the kitchen cleaned up a little and clear some of the sides clear. This means that all I have to do is hae another quick clean up before giving the twins their last feed of the day. We will see how well Elbereth manages with it tonight.

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