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-- jay

    So the last few weeks have been quite interesting but it's safe to say that everyone has come out of it fine. 3 weeks after my kids were born we began noticing an issue with my son, everything he ate came right back up 15-20min later. At first it was a little but as the time progressed so did the amount. We first thought it was the formula which at the time was isomil the soy variant of similac, we dropped that. Switched over to Enfamil Prosobee a milk based formula, gave that a try for a bit and still the same 15min after eating right back up. During this whole time about 1.5 weeks of it we were in constant consult with my sons doctor. He kept suggesting new formula's and we blindly listened, after all doc knows best. At the end of this run my son was projectile vomiting, loosing color in his face and eyes actually looked sunken in. I had enough, I called my doctor and he suggested since the last formula was not working we should switch to pedialyte and see if that would be kept down. I asked my doctor and if it does not? He told me we will see him in the morning and go from there.
   
     I told him how my son was looking and asked to please give me an alternative I wanted to get a resolution as we were getting more distraught by the second. He mentioned we can go to Robert Wood Johnson hospital rather than our local hospital because the doctors were much better at what they did, regarding pediatrics there.

     The hospital was about 30min from us we jumped in the car and headed down there, we arrived at about 3am. The nurses took him in to do a ultrasound of his stomach, a little while after we arrived. They took my wife along with him I hung back in the room they had given us. After a long wait they arrived and gave a diagnosis my son had something called Pyloric Stenosis (click the link for more info) the only way to fix this was surgery. We couldn't fathom surgery at 3 weeks of age but what could we do, we agreed and it was scheduled. I will keep this short but the surgery was done and my son is now drinking all the formula he can (probably making up for lost time).

    Since then other than crying, feedings every 2hrs the most we have seen is a chest cold for my son (which I now have, thanks Joshua) and crying, crying, crying... Here is the little champ today...

Wow what a month it's been. The misses and I have not napped correctly since bringing the twins home. It's been a struggle getting them on a schedule for the eat, sleep and poop cycles. Being awake at all hours has caused a few tense moments between the wife and I but we attribute that to lack of sleep. Folks tell us when they sleep you sleep, someone tell the twins that, they obviously did not get the memo. I will keep this post short because I am hearing my little girl arise from her slumber. I need to trip my way to her.

It gets easier right? RIGHT?

So the misses and I have had someone to help us with the twins since day 1. Whether it was the nurses at the hospital who were available 24/7 or grandma who moved in with us from the first day we came home. Someone was always there. Well it is now 5/25 approximately 19 days after birth and the misses and I are alone. No nurses and no grandma, its just the twins and us. Its time to play. Wish us luck.

We as we know it are entering No Ma`am's Land... Sorry at 1:17am with a crying twin this is as funny as I can get :).

Take care internet.

-- Jay

So here I am 10 days into fatherhood, I sit here scraggily beard, no sleep and waiting for my next turn to feed a twin... Yet it doesn't bother me, in the past being this tired would have made me VERY cranky, quite the person to NOT want to be around. But this time it's different. Looking into my son/daughters eyes and seeing the words "i need you" make it all worthwhile. It appears that both my son and daughter have some form of colic and yet not even THAT bothers me. My wife is still adjusting to motherhood, and I know ladies it's tougher on you guys with all those hormoneys and things but I digress. Parenthood is here and I couldn't be happier. The kids are asleep I should get some to before the next feeding.

-- Jay

Ok folks well the end of the road to parenthood has arrived. As of 5/6/2009 at 9:42 the misses and I became parent's.

Emilia Katherine Martinez born at 9:42 am weighing in at 5lbs 8oz and 19in long.

Joshua Michael Martinez born at 9:44am weighing in at 8lbs 6oz and 21in long.

The wifey and I could not be happier, we got home from the hospital on Mother's Day, how appropriate :), and have not slept since. From this point forward we will be blogging about the kids and parenting on another website, www.joshuanemilia.com :) so stay tuned.

OK folks a quickie post for today before I run off. At week 33 the twins were 6lbs 6oz and 4lbs 15oz respectively. The misses and I head off to a growth check today, what do you think the new weight will be considering they have entered week 37. Remember there is 1 boy and 1 girl. Leave a comment below.

It's been a long road. More to come stay tuned!

Hey Folks,

See blogs not dead yet, but over the last 2 months with the lack of sleep I have been getting and the coming babies, something has got to give. I have chosen to give up on wordpress rather than the other option which in this case was my sanity. I chose to move from a self hosted wordpress solution and hand over my blog to the all powerful google. I wanted to avoid the updating and maintaining of my blog, yes I could have gone with a hosted wordpress solution but I would have been obligated to transfer all my old wordpress posts to that, I did try but failed miserably. Wordpress export does its job half a**ed at least for me. So I opted to start clean, backed up my old stuff from wordpress, exported my posts, backed up mysql and even saved the folders from the 2.7.1 install. I did go ahead and save my last 3 posts to the blog and put them in the new home. So the blog is not dead just in a new home.

I am focusing on my wife for the next 3 weeks that we have left before the twins arrive so this blog will gather some dust in the meantime. But please do keep after me on twitter. I will return soon enough, with twins in tow...

By the way the feedburner feed stays the same so if I am in your rss reader then you will still receive the lemony scented goodness that is my blog. Also my domain is in the process of making itself forward to its new home, so give me 24-48hrs to adjust and next time you type jaymartinez.com it will be forward you to here.

-- jay