week one
Sunday, February 7th, 2010Looking back now almost 13 days to the minute since Randa awoke and her water broke, I want to review that first week of this boys life, before reviewing the second.
Recovery started well with R on her feet after 24 hours. Isaac slept with me the first night which freaked out the night nurse, but was great fun for us. R had lots of annoying monitors and not the best bed for him that first night. So in addition to skin to skin soon after birth I got to bond even more with him through the night. I felt plenty guilty then, but by day two he knew who had the good stuff.
R’s sis Paula flew in Tuesday and was a great help. Having your own personal mom-baby nurse / wonder-aunt to help is definitely recommended.
After two and a half days in the hospital the three of us headed home with the help of P. I and R were both doing really well, recovering and progressing nicely eating, pooping, sleeping, etc.
Isaac got pretty hungry while working through the colostrum for a few days and became a sucking maniac, I resorted to a pacifier fairly quickly though attempted not to let him get too confused.
By Friday he had dropped to 6lb 3oz (~10%) just toeing the line enough to get us a trip to the lactation nurse at the hospital to weigh, feed then weigh again. While there, he had his first real milk burp. It had finally come! The next stage had begun. We went in again on Sunday and he was already up 6 oz.
My mother replaced Paula on Saturday and lent a very helpful hand until Monday when we began week two. Just the three of us.
more images from the first week can be seen here…