Sleep

Constantly, people are like "Oh! Enjoy sleep while you can, and get as much as you can right now, cause you won't be sleeping later! OH HO HO HO HO!"

And of course they are sortof right. Babies want to be fed every two hours or so.

Yesterday we started a day/night strategy. We feed her frequently during the day, as often as she'll take it - every hour and a half, give or take. Then at night, she'll feed less frequently. According to our plan. And it seems to have been somewhat successful. We fed about every hour and a half. Our last feeding before heading to bed was at 9:30, and then we all slept until 12:30. Then we had three more feedings before 7:30. So Yay. I'm hoping that this will help us to be able to get some sleep at night.

Also, I sleep like the dead. Last night I hopped right up out of bed at 12:30 to help change a diaper and get everyone setup to feed. While Piper ate, I opened up The Graveyard Book, and read some. But then at the next feeding, I was COMPLETELY INCOHERENT. Krissi wanted me to hop up and change the diaper. I stared at her for a moment, and then at Piper, and asked, "Okay, so you want me to swaddle her?". It goes on like that. Hilarious, I'm sure.

So things are going well. We're all trying to get into a routine and pattern. Krissi is doing pretty well. She is very mobile, despite the incision. She's still got some pain though, and is on medicine for it. We've got a followup appointment on Friday. Breastfeeding is going very well, which I was quite concerned about. But baby and mama seem to be picking it right up.

Yazhi is hilarious. When we lay the baby down in bed, Yazhi puts most of her body on the bed so that she can sniff the baby and hover over her some. She's so interested, and seemingly motherly/protective. She carefully watches over the baby. Its cute and funny.