Compared to the excitement of yesterday, today was for trying to recover a bit (and admire the cuteness that is Kathryn). The bruising has pretty much resolved and she’s now about as pink as her bedroom (a very girl-friendly habitat!).
She’s not sleeping as much as we would like and the suspicion is that we’re probably doing the Prilosec hat trick for chronic reflux. The only times she seems to settle down (and that for relatively short periods) is when she’s laying on your stomach or is in the bouncy seat (which she did in the nursery to give Mommy a little break).
Mind you, we don’t mind the cuddling in the slightest (neither does Kathryn, for that matter!) but she does need to sleep on her back a lot more than she’s currently doing.
She’s starting to get the hang of feeding (though we’ve had to supplement a little) and the first week or so is always the most trying and frustrating.
She also had her hearing test and passed with ease. It’s an interesting test where they send a bunch of tones at her and watch a particular area of the brain known as the auditory brain stem. If they see activity in time with the tones, they know she heard the tone. What they can do these days when it comes to the brain is nothing short of amazing. Not that we’ve had any experience with that at all…
But the most important thing was that our little miss got to meet her two older brothers today. I think it’s safe to say that both of them were instantly hooked…it’s kind of hard to blame them when we all fell in love with her at first sight and it’s only gotten worse ever since. 🙂
Both of the boys seemed particularly fascinated with her. Dr Nicholas dutifully inspected her to ensure she had all of the required fingers and toes (she passed that test!) and we were just waiting for him to essentially give no doubts as to what his specialty in practise is going to be. After all, he knows what he has and he did have a phase where he’d ask various people if they had a penis. But amazingly after he watched a diaper being changed, nothing was said of the fact that something wasn’t quite the same down there. We’re sure it’s coming soon enough, though… 😉
Alexander wasn’t quite sure what to make of her but he patted her on the head nice and gentle. We guess he comes by that honestly considering what’s happened to his head over the past 18 months!
The boys enjoyed their visit but it was time for them to head back to the house with Grammy where hopefully they could all get some rest. The boys were initially in the delivery room on Friday but then went home where Grammy’s friend Robin kindly agreed to be driven mad…I mean… driven to the brink of exhaustion…uh…be charmed by two energetic boys ( that’s the story and I’m sticking to it!).
That left Kathryn with Mommy and Daddy for some quality time. What’s felt a little bit weird about this is how much time she’s spent in the room. Honestly, we’ve never known what it’s like to have a delivery that seems to be going by the numbers. Nicholas and Alexander were in ICU during their first week by this time so we didn’t get much time with them out of necessity. But Kathryn’s been in there pretty much as long as we’ve wanted her with brief forays into the nursery for measurements and baths, etc. Tonight that’ll change so that Mommy can hopefully get some rest because she’s not had much since the contractions started on Friday.
We soon settled into a routine of change diaper, attempt to feed, cuddle, admire how beautiful she is…then repeat as needed with Mommy catching at least a little rest.
So this is what a normal first day of life is like, eh?
We’re certainly glad someone answered our prayers to give us at least one of these. We’ve certainly earned it… 🙂
