Coffee or things that make us go.

One of the first things you need to understand about triplets especially newborn triplets is that you can kiss good by to sleep. Oh sure you hear the jokes about the lack of sleep you have with a newborn. I am here to set that myth straight. If you only have one baby you can take turns with you spouse feeding the child, the only person I think may be able to understand the struggle would be the single parent doing it all on their own, since they would have no one to share the load with. As it was thankfully we had family come in for the first week and help us transition from the NICU to home life. The wife and I actually got to sleep a little that first week but after that all bets were off. Lets talk about why we didn't sleep for the first four months. We kept the schedule and color codes that were assigned in the NICU blue for Bobby, Purple for Iris, and green for Cooper. this will come into play later, we feed the kids ever two hours starting with two ounces and working our way up to larger portions over time. Now with three babies and only two parents you have to get creative and only more so as they get bigger and bigger. In the early days it was easy to hold two in your arms while you held the bottles. Lets take a moment to talk about bottles and formula. We went through 64 ounces of formula a day. I would grab a big pitcher and make a days worth in advance. We had trays that I would line with the day's bottles and pour the servings of the day for the kids into color coded bottles. That was the only thing that made sense was to have all the food ready for the day in one of the brief times that the children slept. Truth be told I have a hard time recollecting the first four months of the kids life seeing as I was working full time as a sales trainer around 40 to 50 hours a week then coming home to a tired wife and then fall right back into the every two hours feeding schedule. As tough as it was we decided that they only way to live through this was to live or die by the schedule. Ergo we never needed to sleep train our kids or to this day have no problems with them sleeping through the night. We did this by keeping them on the schedule regardless of their personal desire to sleep. We made them all get up at the same time to eat and change diapers and kept them on the schedule until all wanted to sleep longer then three hours and over time we just kept expanding the time till all of us gradually got to sleep through the night. it only took us four months of utter sleep hell for the adults, but we survived. And Coffee lots of lots of coffee.