It's been a while.

Oh my gosh! mommy hood is here!! It's been an awesome first 10 days. Exhausting but awesome. Natalie is amazing. We couldn't be more in love! She is the sweetest little eating, pooping, sleeping machine. As far as updating, I don't even know what day it is lol. But I can try and remember a few fun details.

We were so happy that we got to take her home with us Monday. It would have been a pain to have to go back and forth for feedings if they kept her in NICU. I'm not sure if we ever wrote about it, but I had a fever during labor so natalie also had one when she was born. Standard procedure was to then keep her in NICU for observation. We understood, better to be safe then sorry, it just made it tough the first few days. Our first night we didn't really sleep at all. We kept a pretty good sense of humor about it though.

The second day home was interesting lol. My mom was here to help us (thank god), friends dropped off food and snacks, my dad and his girlfriend Ann came over, and I tried to get the munchkin on a feeding schedule. Getting adjusted to breastfeed has been a challenge, but so far so good. It still was feeling pretty surreal for us having a baby in the house. It was crazy realizing that she was home with us and not still in my belly!! Winston was doing fantastic, getting adjusted really well. He would sniff her and whine if he couldn't see her. It was cute.

Wednesday Natalie had her first doctors appt. We were excited to go on our first outing, and meet the pediatrician. We had a 9:45 appointment and he didn't come in the room till 10:35. In the 50 minutes of waiting we had an eventful morning. Nick got her naked when we got there and swaddled her up. Then the nurse came in to weigh her so we had to take off the diaper and the blanket. When Nick went to put a fresh diaper on, Natalie peed all over her ONLY blanket. So now we had a cold, naked, hungry, blanket-less newborn in a freezing doctors office...awesome. She then proceeded to poop herself in dads lap, which caused us to hysterically laugh... man babies poop loudly. As we changed that diaper, she spit up on the table and was then fussy from that point forward. Rightful so, she was due to eat between 10:30-11:00. SHe gained 2 ounces in 4 days!! I took all the credit for that!! The doctor came in and totally made up for being so late. He was awesome, we like him a lot, very informative, made jokes, and told us Natalie was "perfect". That's what we wanted to here. He then made fun of NICU doctors and Chiropractors in the same sentence. Nick loves him. Wednesday night we had more company. My grandparents and aunt came over. They brought us corn beef and cabbage (nicks fav). SO DELICIOUS!

Thursday and Friday kinda blurred into one big day lol. I got to leave the house! Went and picked up a breast pump. I have a wedding this weekend so I have to make sure dad is good and stocked up with milk for Saturday. I'm really excited for Melanie and Joey! I've known Mel for many years, and I'm so stoked to see her walk down the aisle. I'm glad my hubby is cool enough to take on the challenge of being on his own with a 2 weeks old! Such a good dad he is :)

Saturday and Sunday....also a blur. lol. Saturday we had our friends Dan and Angela come down to meet Natalie, and Sunday we went to Mimi's house!! Nick and I also got about 40 minutes of "US" time Sunday which we spent laying (sleeping) in the sun out back with baby monitor in hand. We almost lost the dog, but I felt like a regular human for a few minutes....not just a upright standing cow :)

Monday we had a photo sessions with Georgia Handy Photography! It was so fun, Natalie was awesome, she got some great shots. I can't wait to see them, hopefully we should have them the end of the week. I also got to go into work in the afternoon. Nick brought the baby down so a few of the girls from work got to see her. Two of them brought their little girls in too, it was so cute!!

Im going to give the pediatrician a call this afternoon. once or twice a day after about 35 minutes of a good feeding she empties her tummy all over my lap when I burp her. Not sure if that's normal or if she is over eating?? And I usually end up waiting a little bit and feeding her again. Just want to make sure this is nothing to worry about, or what I should do to help her. I read online at 2:30 this morning to try and limit how much she eats, but it's hard to do that with breastfeeding. We'll see what they say.

Just a few side notes before I wrap up this huge post:
-Nick is the diaper master...I suck at it.
-Breastfeeding is tiring, but seems to be working well.
-Stay at home moms must watch a crap load of TV.
-It's crazy how much you worry about a tiny little person.
-Laundry one handed isn't so bad.
-Baby throw up is impressive.
-Umbilical cords are gross...hopefully that will be falling off soon.
-Damn do we make a cute kid!!

I'm sure I missed a ton of fun details, but now I should be able to update a little more often so I don't forget everything lol. Thanks so much for all the congrats everyone, we are a happy little family now :)