I’m totally babbling. You don’t need to read this if you are not interested in baby squee.
We are all doing quite well. We are sleeping well, eating well, and apparently… excreting well. There is more attention being paid to these processes for me and Shanna, but I guess Noah is still having no troubles as well. 😉 That lucky bastard is sleeping more than he has slept in a long time actually. Amusingly, so am I. Shanna needs food less often than I needed to empty my bladder during pregnancy. 🙂
She cries when her diaper is being changed and when she is being dressed. Other than that she fusses a little but not with extreme enthusiasm. She doesn’t sleep very well if she is set down on the bed. She sleeps solidly for three to four hour blocks if you leave her on you though, so I’ve been sitting still a lot. 🙂 It’s really awesome to just watch her sleep. I’m starting to get bored and I am extremely grateful that I already borrowed a bunch of movies from people. 🙂 Bedrest was mostly just a West Wing marathon and now I am actually getting to the movies. We are actually starting to wear her because that makes it a lot easier to let her sleep for long periods without being entirely trapped in one place. Noah wore her for a few hours yesterday and I have her on today. As I was hoping, she seems to love the Moby. (Thanks Angela!)
Looks like despite my mother’s dire predictions I’m not going to have any milk production problems at all. Good grief am I producing. And my boobs swelled, again. At this point the 36 E bras are almost painfully tight but I hear that this swelling will go down. Please God, let the swelling go down. I’m surprised by how easy of a time I am having with feeding her. We both just seemed to figure it out instantly. I was told that I would probably be up in the middle of the night crying because she wouldn’t feed and so far the only time she won’t latch is when she needs to burp–which seems quite reasonable to me.
I was good and scheduled an introductory appointment with my family medicine doctor so she can meet Shanna. See, I’m not so anti-Western medicine that I am completely skipping all convention. 🙂
I was really worried about postpartum depression. It’s been this little warning flag in the back of my brain since before I got pregnant. I can’t believe how cheerful I am. My midwife told me that when my milk came in I should expect to spend the day crying, but I haven’t had even vaguely sad thoughts. I feel better emotionally than I have ever felt in my life. I’m still taking my placenta capsules (hey–maybe they are working?) because I’m not interested in playing with that fire. I can get a little misty eyed thinking about how incredibly lucky I am. Although, as Amy says–my life isn’t this good because of luck. I worked for this. I would say that having such a cheerful ridiculously easy baby is luck though. 🙂 But Noah being such an amazing partner isn’t pure luck. We’ve worked hard at figuring out what we each need to do to meet the needs of the other. I’m not as good at it as he is at this point, but luckily he is a lot more easy going. 🙂 Shanna is bringing full circle how good and wonderful our relationship is. I feel like maybe she is my reward for working so hard at being a good person. I’m not always a good person and I’m far from a perfect person, but I work really really hard at being the best person I can be. I like to believe karma sees that.
Ack. The schmoop. It overwhelms me. 🙂
So we are getting to the point where visitors are more ok. Probably by this weekend I will be feeling better enough that being a little social won’t be too hard. Which is my code way of saying that I’m probably not going to be hunting people down yet, but if you are really bursting at the seems it’s perfectly fine to ask if you can come over this weekend. 🙂 Keep in mind previously stated rules. 🙂
Yay!
I’m glad she likes the Moby – it’s really nice to have the baby with you and have your hands free for something else.
I’m way behind on my LJ f-list, so this is the first I’ve heard that the spawn has, errr, spawned :-). Huge congrats to all three of you!
Your experience gives me a lot of hope.
Sounds like lucky parents and a lucky baby–and deserving, too. Yay!
I am off to Taiwan this weekend so can’t come visit, but want to come over (I’ll bring lunch) asap when I get back.
Pics cute!
“I feel better emotionally than I have ever felt in my life.”
🙂
Well, you take the placenta and dry it out then make it into powder. Then you put it in capsules and take them. Basically I’m eating the placenta with a small gel barrier.
*hugs* redeemable in person
I’m so, so happy for you. 😀
Awesome baby squee! 🙂
I am so happy for you! And once again, she is a beauty…but hey, she has good genes!
As the proud parent of a daughter widely known as “the best baby ever” (at least here in Portland) I’d like to believe that I’ve had a LITTLE to do with it. 😉 But yes, every baby is different, and I do feel VERY VERY lucky to have a baby who has a charming, easygoing personality. I’m so so so happy for you that you seem to have an equally awesome lizard. Makes the world a WHOLE lot easier.
Babywearing is KEY. Even at nearly a year old, she’s quite content to be snuggled into the Ergo and toted around for hours. (AND she’s likely to hold her pee and go in the potty when I let her off! Yaaaaaay EC!) Many a good nap was accomplished with her in the Moby in the first months. It wasn’t until after 6 months that we made much progress in getting her to nap on her own. I still got plenty done.
I’m also super happy that you and Noah have such a great relationship. It’s good for you, it’s good for him, and it’s a beautiful thing for Shanna.
*HUGS*
Continued joy to you.
Yay, it’s so wonderful that you are all so happy and doing so well. Rebecca and I had a ridiculously hard time getting started nursing. She was a really heavy sleeper, but we were on midwife’s orders that we had to wake her up every couple hours all night to try to get her to nurse, and so that I could pump. It was really pretty hellish for the first couple weeks, and in retrospect doesn’t really seem like that great an idea, but sleep deprivation doesn’t make you really smart either. I don’t know if I would trade your labor for my breast feeding experience, but I’d consider it.
Honestly, considering that it was two days of suck but then it was over… it’s not that bad. I’m glad that all the following stuff has been easy. 🙂
Yay, happy babyness!
I hadn’t bothered with the James Bond collection because you were inundated with things to watch (according to the lovely miss dangerpudding), but if you’re at the point where you might want it, let us know. I still have it set out in a bag to take to you.