This is one of them there update thingies... and some pictures!!!

07/19/2010

Squish... AKA Elora Grey McMarlin

I'm still in shock. For real.
I'm someone's mother. Like I have my daughter laying on a pillow next to me on the couch as I'm typing up this entry.
It's surreal.
Everyone says it but I really never thought I could love someone so much.
Kind of feels like if I blink I'll have dreamed it all up... to the point where sometimes I'll wake up on the couch (we're in the living room until I'm well enough to climb my ladder to get into bed again) and I have to reach over and touch her just to make sure she's real.

And by the way.... I hit the baby lottery.
She's amazing.
Quite a calm little baby, but alert at the same time.
She hardly cried when she was first born. They plunked her down on my belly and we just stared at each other. the nurses got her cleaned off and warmed up in a few minutes but I didn't announce her name until my family was in the room with us.
I'm kind of sentimental like that.

It still makes me cry thinking about it.
I'll share the whole labor story in a later entry... She's waking up a little and is due for a feed. So you guys will just have to settle for pictures for now.


After they cleaned her up and got her into her first baby burrito.
It's so cute.

Guess what happens when you pull that little hat off her noggin.


My daughter rocks the fauxhawk.


After our first successful feeding... I look tired as hell and she takes a nap lol
That's still pretty much the routine except it doesn't take nearly as long to get her to latch on now that she knows what's up.
The girl loves to eat. For real.
She's already made her discharge weight up and is on her way to being back at her origional birth weight.
The Dr is very happy with that... and so am I.
I was getting frustrated and kind of upset because I really didn't know if I could breastfeed with how much trouble it felt like we were having.
So the fact that she's already growing by leaps and bounds?
I feel a whole lot better... and thus I relax and so does she and it's lots easier.


I'm not so good at swaddling (aka the baby burrito)... she seems okay with that since she kicked out of the ones they wrapped her up in the hospital too.


I take an absurd amount of pictures with this girl.
It's way too much fun going through her clothes and picking things to put her in and having a mini photo shoot.
I'll have to work on it and post one later.


This is from today.
My new favorite thing to do is just lay there and stare at her... it still kind of boggles my mind that she came from me.
Pretty sure she got all the good parts too.

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