Due late March, 2009. Still surprised.

Thursday, April 23, 2009


day one....liking her bath....

so tired

and i should sleep when she does. but that's not when i'm tired. my fine motor skills are in appalling shape. my hope is that she gets big and fat quickly so that nursing fills her up for longer. last nite with an urpup, and didie and gas it was a 2 hour middle of the night letsdealwithallthis....some of this is a growth spurt diagnosed by the lactation consultant which seems, of course, obvious now.

Saturday, April 18, 2009

8lb9 oz

2 weeks after her post-natal checkup at which she weighed 7lb 3 (down from 7.12). So she's surpassed birthwt, and when I look at my son's timeline of stuff, he was at 9.7 at 2 wk checkup. (up frmo birthwt of 7.13)

She is sleeping, so I'm making stuff. Quietly....

Monday, April 13, 2009

April 13

2 weeks plus one. I shampooed V's hair today which she loved and spongebathed the rest of her which she didn't. I have a round patch of instanteczema on the finger on which I have worn a silver ring with a gold inlay for years. It happened instantly. Fortunately, the wedding ring finger is fine, which means that hardware is real gold...

We've had visitors and guesets from Friday noon until late last nite and I've spent as much time in a rocking chair with V as possible. I had some surprising bleeding on Saturday. at the hospital they told me that 2 weeks post partum is a time of renewed and accelerated bleeding, which was reassuring, though still kind of disturbing.

She slept from 1 to 5:30 and then 6:30 to 10:30 am today. Excellent little baby! Now if we could only deal w/the gas...

Thursday, April 9, 2009

space shuttle, antarctica...

places where the 24-hour clock doesn't make any sense is where we are. If you are pregnant and hoping to breast feed (for first time or again) GET AN ELECTRIC PUMP. V. had difficulty sucking b/c of an extended frenulum, which was snipped on day 2, but we still had time to make up while my milk came in. It took about a week to get the classic breast milk -- what I produced hitherto was more in the colostrum range, but I think it was frustrating for her. On day 5 we got an electric breast pump and I went from .25 oz. per breast per pump to, last night, no joke, 4 oz. per breast. needless to say, I'm sore but we have plenty of food for her now. I'm really proud that the last time she had ANY formula (3 doses in her life) was March 31. I think it made her constipated. This is not to say that formula = bad parenting, just that an electric breast pump could get milk out of the venus de milo. Still sleeping in 3 hour shifts. I haven't had 8/9 hours continuous sleep for about 3 months thanx to illnesses and bladder pressure from 3rd tri.

I plan to stay home as long as possible. Fortunately, I work at home so it's just a case of saying nocan'tsorrynexttimeanother time to the myriad other things I do that I'm expected at. . .