Aw I LOVE the title of this thread! Little Miss Coconut!
So cute!
Everything is going fantastic! I expected to struggle a lot more than this. I know it's only been a week and DH is still at home helping out big time... but I am just so happy and having so much fun! I feel like I'm getting plenty of sleep and nursing is going SO well, and we just have such a happy little bug!
I can't believe she's a week old already and I already feel like she's growing up entirely too fast though! I don't want this phase to end... I just want to stay on the couch and snuggle her forever!
Ben has been off all week and goes back to work starting Monday, which is actually his birthday. I'm loving all of our time together and will definitely miss him when he's back working full time again.
He has been such a big help... I'm still really sore and so he is still waiting on me and refilling my big water bottle from the hospital (that's like my new best friend) all the time and changing all of her diapers pretty much. He's just totally in love with our little Lilybug.
Funny story... the other night he got up and changed her diaper, and I could hear him in her nursery grumbling about how baby clothes should all have zippers and no snaps
Then he comes back and puts her down and we sleep longer, and then she's crying so he goes to bring her to me and she is SOAKING WET. Yeah... he totally changed her dirty diaper, and then clothed her and put her back to bed but never put a new clean diaper on her!
Ahh, the things you do in the middle of the night, right?
She hasn't had any real bath yet since her cord is still on... so we just filled a bowl with baby soap suds and I held her while DH wiped her down with a wash cloth. Nothing photo worthy - plus our hands were full
She had her first pedi appt yesterday. Her pedi is actually my pedi from the time I was 2 until I was too old to go there anymore, so that's kind of fun. Nothing interested to report... she is back up to her birth weight at 6 days old, so I'm pretty proud of that. Mama's milk is doing its job!
She's doing great nursing. I haven't had any soreness or any issues at all so I guess her latch is just how it should be. The night my milk came in we struggled a bit because she would not wake up for ANYTHING. I was stripping her down to her diaper and tickling her feet and doing everything I could to try to wake her up to nurse and she was just out. I was trying to offer the breast every 2 hours to help establish my supply, etc. and it was taking forever to wake her up. Then by the time she was ready to nurse my boobs were so engorged she was getting frustrated trying to latch. But that was literally just that one night and things have been completely perfect since then. I feel very very fortunate and I hope I can keep up this 'good luck.'
During my pregnancy I was really worried about baby blues or PPD. I have a history of depression and had my fair share of ups and downs during my pregnancy and found myself totally isolating from people. But so far I feel like my mood has improved greatly compared to being pregnant. Maybe the pregnancy hormones just didn't jive as well with me. Hopefully I'm not speaking too soon! But I haven't even cried yet. I've been really careful though to not think about anything too sad or overwhelming because I'm afraid once it starts it won't stop. Like I've gotten comments about Lily's features being just like my dad's, etc. and that gets me weepy so I change the topic quickly.
I had my dr appt today to check my blood pressure. Last night when I checked it at home it was 156/100 - but my MIL was also here.
At my appt today it was 138/80 which is great and they said it should keep coming down, so fingers crossed! I've lost 26 pounds according to my doctor's scale, and that was with my shoes and everything on - so I'm happy with that. So I only have 11 more to go.
We took some pictures of Lily the other day that I've been needing to put online, but they're loaded on the computer in the office and I haven't been in there, I'll do that tonight or tomorrow and share them.
Thanks for thinking of us! Feels good!
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