Friday morning, the nice nurse, came to our house early in the morning to do the follow up check that the hospital provides. The nurse did a great job of answering our lactation questions and generally easing our minds.
No, you don't have to alternate breasts if one is really hurting.
Yes, you really need to slather on the Lansinoh.
No, she can't poop too much.
In addition, the nurse weighed little Grace, and we realized something kind of cool. When Grace was born she was 6 lbs. 4 oz. A little math, she weighed 100 oz. at birth. This makes calculating her percentages so easy!
When we left the hospital she was down 7% (5 lbs. 13oz), and on Friday morning (drum roll please) she was only down 5.5%. She gained 1.5 oz.
This great news put us both at ease and the rest of the day was fairly uneventful.
May 8th
Saturday was a just the three of us day. We are still learning our new routines, but one thing we've started to do, is take Grace out into the morning air. We feel it's important that she get some fresh air in her lungs each day.
One thing new we tried on Saturday, was giving Grace a bath. She was super well behaved, and we think it was because the cloths were warm. We're hoping it means she'll enjoy real baths once her umbilical cord stump falls off.
During diaper changes, we are using wipes, and she makes quite a fuss once we start using them. The bath made us realize that maybe it's just because they are cold. Reusable wipes are coming in the mail, so hopefully that will make changes less dramatic/traumatic.
There's no pretense here that these are going up on the days they claim, so here's a sneak peak: Mother's Day was full of visitors and there should be some nice pictures and words to narrate that day soon.
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