Hospital and Home

My first night in the hospital was HORRIBLE! I had possibly THE worst nurse EVER! She never came in when her shift started to introduce herself (not that big of a deal to me typically) BUT the CNA came in and said they needed to do routine vitals on my baby, so she took her. Well I fell asleep for 45 min and when I woke up Addison was STILL gone! So I paged my nurse...well she came in and was like oh, well I didn't write it down but I THINK your babies body temp was low so we had to put her under the warmer...sorry I don't know if that is your baby though....ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?! I was like well figure it out because I want to know where my kid is. Low and behold it WAS my baby who was cold and under the warmer. The other awesome thing she did was tell me I should nurse AS LONG AS POSSIBLE. So that entire night I nursed Addie for like 1.5 HOURS at a time...no joke. Ya, the next morning my new nurse was like no no no no no! They should only nurse for 10 min on each side because they burn too many calories otherwise...great. She also refused to take out my IV for no good reason other than she didn't want to. It was serving NO purpose...I had already gone to the bathroom and the bag had been empty for hours...eventually my CNA took it out in the middle of the night for me. Don't worry...I asked the next day to never have her as my nurse again.......

So things at home have been good for the most part. Riley transitioned SO well. He LOVES his little sister. He always wants to hold her hand and he says he wants to hold her in his arms, but then when he does he says "Too heavy mom" lol...she's rather light in my opinion :) At her 1 week check-up she weighed 5 lbs 9.5 oz and was 19 inches long. The dr recommended I nurse her every 2 hours instead of every 3...ya, that didn't work out so great. I cried and cried and cried. Nursing was going well, but then everything seemed to fall apart. She forgot how to latch and would get so mad about it...it was like Riley all over again. I was seriously determined to nurse this time around though because it is FREE and SO good for your baby. We didn't budget formula into the 2011 budget (lol, I know!) so I would feel guilty spending all that extra $$ when I could provide free, better food for Addie. Now, with Riley nursing just did NOT work (due to the minor detail of taking an allergy pill EVERY day...ya I NOW know that depletes your milk supply....) So anyway, nursing was good, then bad, very bad. Poor Jeff, I've been an emotional wreck (as most of you probably have read on facebook) I think it would help if my boobs weren't like 4 times the size of my babies head...I need like 4 hands to maneuver everything....ya, not exaggerating. So on Friday I made Jeff take a half day so I could go see the lactation specialist. THANK HEAVENS. Things have been SO much better since then. I won't say it is easy, or that I love having to feed every 3 hours ALL DAY and NIGHT long...but it's working. Well by working I mean she poops and pees....so she is getting something. We have an appointment on Tuesday for her 2 week checkup and we will see how much weight she has gained and we will know if it is really working. I am not totally opposed to the idea of pumping. I mean heck I don't leave the house so who really cares if it isn't the most convenient thing....but it is still free. My goal is week by week. Well really, more like day by day. I've heard if you can make it to 6 weeks things are sooooo much better. They also told me that once we finally get to her due date things will click a lot more too because she will be more mature and close to where she needs to be...we only have a little over a week until we get there! Soooooo if you'd like to add my breast feeding needs and well being to your nightly prayers, I'm all over it! I pray all the time about it and thank Heavenly Father it has worked for at least 2 weeks...I'm so not thinking long term...it's too scary. Ok, I'm done ranting :) I'll be back to blog soon...and when Jeff gets home I'll have him help me add pictures :)