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Lucy has some great grandparents.
Steve and Lee are in from Chicago, helping us make the transition from hospital to home. Things are good: Lucy is eating about every three hours and sleeping in between most of the time. It's a good life, eating so much that you fall asleep and are then awoken for a new meal a few hours later.
Last night was our first "long night" and it wasn't too bad. Lucy woke up at 4:15 a.m., ready to eat, and stayed up until 7:00 a.m. We knew it was going to be fun when the sun started coming up. I think it'll take about two weeks to make the adjustment, but we've got so much help that we're going to do just fine.
Diaper Update: In the hospital, the nurses told us that the Newborn size wouldn't fit her, so Lucy has already moved up to Size 1, for babies 8 to 12 pounds. If anybody's in the market for seven-hundred Newborn size diapers, we can hook you up.
Oh my God, we made it.
The Swiss Family Tallman is safe at home. In the last 48 hours we had some AMAZING nurses at Cedars teach us how to breast feed Lucy, how to swaddle her, how to take care of hiccups, and so on. More pictures are coming but right now Sarah's taking a shower (while protecting her invisible stitches, courtesy of Dr. Betty Lee), Lucy's taking her first nap, and I'm putting stuff away.
Lee, Sarah's mom, arrives in a bit and will help us out for the next week. I predict dinner tonight will consist of deliciousness and naps, followed by a diaper change (or three, Lucy keeps us on our toes).
Another movie starring our favorite troublemaker drunk on formula.
So far, so good.
Lucy's temperature ran a little high overnight and as we hit hour 48 of her entire life, a bit of jaundice set in. This is all tied in to her feeding, according to Dr. Miller, our on-site pediatrician. We've been breast-feeding exclusively but Sarah's milk doesn't "arrive" until tomorrow, so today we had to supplement with formula. Apparently this was good because Lucy immediately did her impression of a hobo drunk on moonshine, rolled her eyes into the back of her teeny-tiny head, and passed out. To quote the nurse, "Is good!"
A normal moment here at the hospital.
We received this in an eMail.
Todd B. from Milwaukee writes, "I can't believe it! Lando was there, just like the blog promised."
Lucy has some great grandparents.
