My daily routine in hosptial :)

Just so you can get a feel for what a day is like for me being in hospital and the events that are now part of being in here..
This is if I don't have any special tests or scans  :)

6.45 - get delivered a fresh jug of water (always wakes me up)

7.10am - check my blood sugars before breakfast arrives

7.15am - breakfast arrives and menu plan for lunch, tea and next morning

7.30am/8.00am - get my morning obs done (blood pressure, temperature, heart rate, and babies heart beats)... then get my morning hepron injection in my upper thigh (blood thinner to prevent blood clots while im on bed rest)

8.15ish - Doctors Visit (check my progress feel my belly ask lots of questions)

8.30-10.00am - morning rest sometimes read or play games or have a wee sleep

9.15am - check blood sugars 2 hours after I have started to eat breakfast

10.00am - morning tea time

10.30- 1.00 - more rest time usually get up and walk around the ward see whats going on.
Get next set of obs done again by the nurse/midwife

1.00pm - lunch time

1.30-3.00 - rest time, read, relax

3.00pm - check after lunch time sugars

3.15pm - afternoon tea time

3.30-5.00 - rest time again :) :)

5.00ish - Kane arrives once he has finished work

5.45pm - tea time

6.00-7.30 - spend time with kane until he goes home

7.45pm -  check my blood sugars from dinner

8.00pm- time to get my obs done again, and my night time medication. another Hepron injection, iron, vitamin C and Metamucil ...

8.30pm- if Im still a little hungry have a late snack before settling in for the night, and usually go and visit the other lady on the ward who is also having triplets and in for the same reasons as me.

9.00pm - set up my dvd player watch some tv series

10.30pm - Sleep time


How much am I eating???

Breakfast - bowl of porridge, banana, small juice (110ml), hot option (eggs, baked beans, pancakes, omelets, or what ever else is on the menu)

morning tea time - flavoured milk, crackers and cheese/peanuts/sandwiches/fruit/yoghurt one or 2 of those things

Lunch - Soup, Hot option (fish, chicken meal, roast, omelet, many other options as well depends of the menu), sandwiches (sometimes can eat some or all of these), fruit, and small desert

afternoon tea - same as morning tea

Dinner - Hot option (can also ask for 2x the amount if im feeling really hungry :).), sandwiches, and desert which changes daily

Late snack - milo, toast, fruit or crackers etc

I eat lots and often I am always hungry the dietician says my weight gain is good so far am on around 13-14 KG since falling pregnant they are expecting me to put on around 25 KG so have to keep eating to fuel the babies!!