How a week flies by!

I can't believe how fast 1 week has gone! I can't believe a week ago today we were sitting in the hospital room waiting for our precious Delaney to arrive- wondering what she will look like, if she will have hair, what her cry will sound like, how big she will be, how long we will have to wait to snuggle her, etc. Unbelievable!

Kenna has been adjusting as good as can be expected. She wants to hold Delaney right when she gets out of bed in the morning. She wants to do everything herself and has needed some reinforcement that babies are small and need to be handled with care! But she does love her sister very much! We try to involve Kenna as much as possible- having her get us diapers, blankets, etc. I was worried about explaining breastfeeding to her. We just told her that is how the baby eats and she was fine with that. She calls it eating out of my belly. She asks why Delaney has to get milk from my belly. It is cute. Yesterday she tried to breastfeed her baby using her belly button.

This is Delaney's first trip out of the house. On Tuesday we had our first appt with Dr Dickmeyer. Delaney weighed 6lbs 14.5 oz. She was 6lb 14 oz the day after she was born so she is doing well. We had to see him so soon because her bilirubin level (test for jaundice) was high when we left on Sunday. Dr Dickmeyer chose not to retest it, which I agree with because her skin was slowly returning to normal color.

This is a picture of Kenna helping me give Delaney her first sponge bath at home. Kenna was totally confused since we were not actually putting her in the bathtub but she was trying to help anyway. It was cute! Of course Delaney hated every minute of it!

Wednesday night we took Delaney to mom and dad's house. We knew Kenna needed some time out of the house- and so did we. She was not listening to us and getting in to everythingso we thought it would be best to get out for a bit.



While we were there, mom set up dad's new hammock and Kenna had fun playing with it. First she laid on it......

Then she used the legs of it as her microphone as she danced and sang her way around the living room!

Yesterday we went to Parkview North to meet with the lactation consultant. I stopped in to get the hospital pictures we had done of Delaney as well. We stopped in to see a few people too. The first picture is Stacey Adams. She is the day shift supervisor of the family birthing center. She was a nurse I had regularly when I was in the hospital with Kenna. The next picture is Stacey Delagrange. She is the evening supervisor of the family birthing center. Deb Howell is the next one. She is the educator of the FBC and my preceptor when I started this job. The last picture is Jenny Dougal. She is a clinical nurse specialist for the FBC.