A family Life

Chapter 1

(In Virgil's point a view

It had been 24 hours now since the babies arrived, I have barely had any sleep the last couple of days and its starting to show. It didn't help that I was worried about Jo and our babies, it took me almost a couple of hours to talk Jo into coming with me to see our babies. I think Jo was scared to go and see them, which is why it took me a long time to be able to take her up.

"I can't do it Virgil, I don't want to see my babies hooked up to goodness knows what. What if they don't make it?"

"Hey, come here, I want you to forget about the what if's and come with me to see them. Rebecca and Scotty just need help with their breathing plus they are keeping a close eye on Scotty because of the Downs.

"I still can't believe that Joshua didn't need a lot of help and I have been feeding him from the start, what can I do for my other babies nothing much?"

"Trust me there is a lot that you can do for them Jo, you need to feed these two as well" said Lisa who called in to check on everyone.

"there is?"

"We can feed them your breast milk through a drip, you will have to give that to us every morning. Are you still feeding Joshua okay?"

"Yeah, he is fine with it, but how am I meant to feed Rebecca and Scotty if I can't get anywhere near them?"

"Now this is the good part, we can lend you an electric breast pump to help you with this. The only down side is that you would have to express 8-10 times a day to keep your milk supply up. I know it sounds like a lot to take in Jo, but your breast milk is best for your babies." Said Lisa

"I don't know Lisa, its really starting to scare me now"

"Jo I will talk you through on how to use the breast pump, you will be fine with it. Believe it\z or not but your other two babies are doing great, they are both responding to treatment. As Virgil said we are going to keep on good eye on Scotty, anyway I will leave you two to chat about things. I am around if you have any questions"

"You know I feel really bad about you doing all this feeding on your own, I have been doing a bit of research and there is a tablet that I can take so I can give you a hand"

"I'd rather not, what if it hurts you?"

"Okay why don't you at least let me look into it? I really want to help you in any way I can Jo"

It had been a couple of days since we had talked about it. Jo had agreed to let me investigate it to see what it can do. While we were getting something to eat Scott walks in with his morning coffee and headed out to refuel TB1 for taking Robyn to the island for a couple of days. We knew that Robyn was missing everyone on the island. So, I went to see how Scott was getting on with refuelling one.

"Hey Scott, did you enjoy your coffee this morning?"

"Not really it seems a bit off, did you not buy fresh milk before I came?"

"We did but did you ever think about reading the label? Before putting the milk in your coffee. Scott I really hate to tell you this but that was breast milk" I really felt bad for Scott so I told him to come back to the kitchen and I would make him another one. As we walked back into the kitchen Jo could tell that there was something going on.

"Okay what happened with you two down there?"

"Well let's just say Scott had a very interesting coffee this morning" I reply while trying not to laugh at my older brother.

"Oh, Scott you didn't mistake my breast milk for actual milk, did you?" asked Jo while trying not to laugh.

"I did but Virgil here is going to make me another one aren't you Virg? Asked Scott as I put the kettle on, you know I think this has cheered Jo up a bit today. She seems down but she is getting there. After we had something to eat, we headed back to the hospital again. Once we got there Lisa had just come on duty, she told us that by the end of the week the doctors are going to try and see if the babies could breathe on their own.

Scott had decided to fly Robyn over to the island for a couple of days and Dad had wanted to come out to meet his Grandchildren. It had been a couple of days since Scott took Robyn for us, during our time at the hospital both Mum and Grandma came to see our babies. Jo has now got the hang of using the breast pump that Lisa gave her, and I still feel awful that I can't help Jo with feeding.