AN exhausted mum-of-five has revealed what a normal night for her involves – with newborn triplets AND two toddlers.
Crystal Milutinovic, 29, from Ohio and her husband Marco welcomed miracle triplets for the second time in September after losing two of three babies in 2018.
Now, with two-year-old Lana – who survived her two siblings – and her three-year-old brother Demitirje, three, Crystal certainly has her hands full.
But between constant feeds and soothing unsettled babies, the busy mum is lucky to get an hour of sleep a night.
Posting on TikTok where she details life as a mum-of-five, Crystal shared a run down of her nightly routine.
She said: “It’s 11.30pm and the toddlers are sleeping, I’ve been cleaning and pumping and now I’m going to go to bed, or try and sleep for a little, and my husband is going to do another feeding and wake the babies up in probably an hour or two.”
She explained that her older two are normally in bed by about 8.30pm, but that’s when she gets to work on pumping her boobs for the triplets.
She revealed that her husband usually does the 1am feed while she attempts to get some sleep, but it doesn’t always pan out that way.
By 3am the tired mum is up again to pump her breasts once more. She’ll also feed all three babies, nurse them for a while and change each of their dirty nappies.
By the time 4.30am comes around, she’s fed all three, pumped some extra milk and cleaned the pump ready for next use just two hours later.
In one clip shared online, she says: “It’s 4.38am, the toddlers did wake up a little early but they fell back asleep. they just wanted to lay in my bed.
“I got the pump washed, babies are fed and my husband’s alarm is going to go off.”
The mum explained that she’ll try to get an hour’s rest before her toddlers wake up at 6am, which is when her busy day typically starts.
The mum-of-five shares clips on her TikTok account to raise awareness about what’s called a transabdominal cerclage procedure – a surgery which helps prevent premature labour.
Crystal and her husband fell pregnant with twins after having their first son, but sadly suffered a miscarriage and an ectopic pregnancy, according to MailOnline.
They were thrilled to be pregnant again the following year, this time with triplets.
But after birth, only one survived, Lana, who spent 109-days in NICU.
Now content with five healthy children – Demitirje, three, Lana, two, and triplets Malina, Kostadin and Aleksija, two months – Crystal is sharing her story online.
Meanwhile, a mum-of-11 says people are constantly judging her for having 11 kids but now she’s pregnant again and hoping it’ll be TRIPLETS again.
n other real-life news, a mum-of-14 says she’s lucky she can afford it because they spend £2.5k a MONTH on food & go through 20 loo rolls a week.
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