Q. Do you nurse them or do formula?
A. I definitely nurse them... Breast milk is liquid gold for babies and it is worth the time and effort. Also we could not afford to feed them formula! A small can of formula is about $20 and would only provide 15 bottles.. I don't want to do the math but hi...that's expensive.
Q. Do you nurse them at the same time?
A. Yes!! If I did not feed them at the same time I would be nursing for like 20 hours a day. Sometimes I do have to wake one of them up to eat with the hungry one but they actually usually get hungry at the same time.
Q. How do you nurse them at the same time?
A. I use this nifty little gadget I named my "baby tray" but it is legitimately called the "My Breast Friend" my dad referred to it once as my "breastie" haha that works too dad, that works too. 
I wear it like a pool floaty around my waste and it is somewhat humiliating. The first time Jordan saw me wearing it he said,"You ready to jump in??" To which I replied with a helpless smile. Anyway, when I am alone, I lay the babies next to each other on the couch/floor/bed beside me while I strap in to my baby tray. Then I lean over and pick one of them up at a time and put one baby on each side with their feet to the back of me and I hold them like little footballs. Once they latch I sit patiently in the same position for about ten minutes and listen to their gulping (so cute!) I have a long torso so I end up hunched over :( my back is really taking a beating. They both usually need to be burped at the same time so I secure my hands around their necks and support their heads, lean completely forward so my body is pressing against theirs and heave them up so they are both in burping position.
I used to be able to pat their backs at the same time but as they are getting bigger I have to hold one and pat the other and then switch. Once I am thuroughly soaked in spit up, I lay them back down and they are both sound asleep. So I set them to the side of me, unstrap, and change their diapers. Once I am thuroughly soaked in pee and/or poop I start the process over again. This results in babies who are either wide awake and ready for entertainment or a murder scene... Like these..
I prefer the murder scene.. Because that means I get go to back to sleep!
Sometimes I do burp them one at a time as they need it. That is always fun trying to keep the other latched on and happy while holding and patting the other. One time I was doing that and drinking from a water bottle! I felt like an octopus..
Q. How long does it take to feed them?
A. About an hour :/. When they burp fast and I can change them quickly it can be as fast as 40 minutes. Can I get a sarcastic "yay"? Yaaaaaaaaay
Q. How often do they eat?
A. Every 2 and 1/2 to 3 hours. Even at night. So if you have thought through that correctly, you realize I only get about an hour and a half or two hours of sleep at a time.
Yes. I am tired.
Q: Do you enjoy nursing?
A: Yes and no. No for a few reasons... It makes me sore, I have to do it so often, it is too much of a process to do anywhere public so I am at home way too much and honestly I just want to sleep :(
But yes because I love doing what is best for them, the alone time to just sit and enjoy them is priceless, and they look up at me and smile now which will melt any mothers heart no matter how tired they are. Also I am burning calories like crazy! Win-win!
So now back to Jordan to taking the whole thing for granted...
One day I opened up a package of my favorite vanilla sandwich cookies that my mom so graciously bought for me and basically went to town on them. I ate some at every meal and at snack time and just all day.... By the end of the day my babies were in so much pain from throwing up and pooping green slime that I knew something in my milk was bothering them. I didn't know what to do so I said one of my millions of prayers I say a day and asked Heavenly Father to please help me know what to do. The sandwich cookies instantly came to my mind and a prompting to immediately stop eating them so I knew that had to be it. Not wanting to poison our babies further, Jordan and I decided it would be best if for the next few feedings we gave them formula while I pumped the bad milk out. It was about 1:00 am when we decided this and Raylee woke up at 1:30 wanting food so Jordan made her a bottle and gave it to her while I pumped and then woke Wake up to feed him. We all went back to bed, no big deal. At 4:42 both babies woke up crying and wanting food so I turned on the light and nudged Jordan to wake him up. ( he isn't used to waking up with them because I let him sleep and I can handle it by myself) he tiredly looked at me and said, "what? Right now?" I laughed because it was obvious with the crying babies and all... Eventually I got him awake and I started to get the pump ready. I was very excited to just pump for a while and let Jordan handle the feeding for once! Well, he got up and ogred over to the babies co-sleeper and picked up Raylee and the bottle and went back to his side of the bed. With one crying baby still in the bed I was like, "umm babe? Are you going to feed Wake too??" To which he angrily responded like I was a crazy person with, "feed both of them at once???"
Ummmm I didn't know how to respond to that. Was he really not going to feed them at once? It made me mad, actually, that he didn't think it was possible to give two babies two BOTTLES at once while I go through the struggle of breast-feeding and what I described above every three hours!! I would love to just place two bottles in my children's mouths and hold them there.. So easy.
I angrily asked him to explain himself and he went on about how if one has to burp or of one starts coughing what would he do with the other one? I honestly don't remember all that he said because it made no sense to me. Well I ended up feeding Wake and pumping while he tended to Raylee. We also argued the whole feeding about whether nursing or bottle feeding was harder... So much for not arguing I front of the kids. In the end I realized I asked a man to multitask... They cannot do that. So we wen to bed laughing and agreeing to disagree. Since then I have convinced him he can feed two babies at once and he is asking for a re-do. We shall see.
At least he can hold the babies at the same time. 
