What, you thought these posts would end with delivery? Psh.

She’s awesome. Of course. 🙂 She has gained ten ounces in the past seven days which means that apparently my milk supply is quite sufficient. 🙂 She is at 8 lbs 6 oz. She has already changed appearance fairly dramatically in my opinion. She’s plumping out all over the place. Her hands/fingers no longer remind me of Gollum. She is getting a double chin. Sleep is still going fairly well. She’s getting in at least one 3-4 hour sleep cycle a night and she gets a second every other night so I’m feeling alright. Because I do actually listen to people every so often I stopped trying to orient her towards my preference for day/night…. for now. We will come back to that after it is no longer biologically necessary for her to eat so often. 🙂

She does fuss a bit, but it is pretty clear that it is mostly because she’s a pre-verbal infant. Overall she seems to be pretty cheerful. She is starting to interact more and it’s really interesting. If you talk to her about stuff she reacts, sometimes by grinning sometimes with funny faces. I really wonder how much she understands. We have continued good luck with asking her to respond to specific things in specific ways.

At 16 days I must say that I’m still convinced this was absolutely the right thing for me to do. We’ll see how long that lasts. 🙂

And on for my body healing tmi…

At the maybe unintended suggestion of my midwife I got a mirror and some good lighting and checked out the state of the bits. Wow. That’s… different… Not as alarming as I anticipated though, which is nice. Things are not quite all back to normal positioning (holy crap… I didn’t know the urethra did that…) but I do seem to be healing really well. I no longer have the weird cramping or stomachy sorts of aches. My neck is still sore from looking down. 🙂 I am still spotting a little bit, but that is pretty awesome considering bleeding can last 2-6 weeks. My boobs keep feeling kind of bizarre. While just sitting around my nipples will feel tight and kind of tingly/achey. It’s odd, but not actually painful. And wow do I not have milk production evened out yet. Some days I’m full to bursting all day, some days not so much. It’s annoying mostly because when I’m overfull Shanna doesn’t latch as easily so I have to squeeze the boob. Not really a big deal, but an extra step. When she has decided that a boob should have appeared in front of her like three minutes ago sometimes that extra step is irritating to her. Oh well. 🙂

I’m noticing more mood swings. Still not anything like depression, but the euphoria is wearing off a bit. I think the hot weather is going to be unfun for everyone in our household. We all seem to get rather irritated in the heat. Suckage.

Uhm… I think that’s it.