Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Totally in love

Obviously I haven't had a ton of time to update this thing, but I feel like I should note a few things going on!

Natalie is an absolute angel. She is becoming more and more beautiful every day! We have another weight check on Monday, but we aren't concerned. She's definitely gaining weight and eating like a champ. She is also sleeping longer stretches and is awake much more often. She is so alert, looking around, and learning about her world. She is the best thing I've ever done with my life.

We are exclusively  pumping and bottle feeding breastmilk now. It's not what I wanted at all, but at least she's getting the good stuff. I've pretty much healed up from her bad latching early on, but it's honestly been a few days since I've attempted to breastfeed her. I guess I'm a little traumatized from earlier on.

We got our labor and delivery pictures back a few days ago... they're amazing! Our slideshow brought tears to our eyes. We also have about 14 previews from Natalie's newborn session. They're also amazing. It's crazy how much she's changed.

By day 5 I had lost all of the baby weight... all 19 pounds of it. Things still don't look like they did, of course, but I'm happy to see my feet again! I'm also happy to be back in my normal jeans!

It's also crazy how you adjust to not sleeping... I'm running on about 4-5 hours right now and I'm not completely sure how I'm functioning. I'm sure half of what I've been writing doesn't even make sense haha

Baby is getting fussy, so I'll leave this post with a few pictures of my gorgeous girl!