Hi Kelly,
My standard treatment routine is nebs twice a day and vest once a day. Of course when I get sick, the nebs and vest increase.
When the twins were real small I found that I was feeding them a lot and I usualy found time for my nebs while I was breastfeeding or pumping. (and/or bottle feeding) Now that they are older, I typically do my morning treatment while they watch TV with me in bed for an hour (I have xopenex, plumozyme, HTS and Tobi plus the vest) My evening treatment gets done about 12 hours later, once the twins are in bed at 7pm. Most days (for the last year) I sneak in an afternoon treatment before our nap. Yes, OUR nap! I nap when the twins nap, that's the rule. It doesn't matter how many dirty dishes are in the sink or how badly the laundry needs to get done. I am "resting" when the twins are resting. That's how I try and stay healthy.
I think the hardest part for me was the newborn stage. It's just a 24x7 cycle that starts over 3 hours after you started it the first time! (not 3 hours after you finish) Diapering, feeding, burping, swaddling.... Once they started sleeping longer periods at night it got much better. I love sleep!
I couldn't do ANY of this without a hands on husband. He barely gets in the door most days and he is all over taking care of the kids with me. We don't have "jobs" around the house, we just do what needs to be done. He helps out a lot! It's whoever has their hands free!
I've been much sicker in the last year, than ever before (for me). So my husband has done a lot for me and the kids. He works outside the home, I'm on social security disability. If you think you qualify for disability now, before pg, get that app going! Once you are pregnant there is a bias not to award the status. It sucks, but it's true. I applied when I was 20 weeks. I just hit a wall and my doctor always said, when you're ready, we need to pull you out of work. Unfortunately for me it coincided with my pregnancy, so it looked like I just wanted to "get paid" to stay at home. I wish! I made much more money before I quit working, thank you very much! LOL! It's just smarter for me to not be exposed to those germs right now. And daycare. What a breeding ground for germs! For a normal family it wouldn't be such a big deal, my kids will get over the colds, but in my current state of health the smallest cold seems to send me into pneumonia. My twins are fairly healthy, from not going to daycare. But that is also a choice we made. Wether I was sick or not, I was not going to work when we had kids. Both DH and I come from SAHM families. It just made sense to us.
Sorry for the ramble. I could go on for days. I just love talking about myself. LOL!
Tara