Wednesday, February 3, 2010

1 week old.

Miss Tavia is 1 week old today, and what a week. I am sure all of you moms (and dads) remember how fast the first week went. Seems like a whirlwind looking back a few short days to all the end-of-pregnancy woes, the waiting, and then the final relief of birth. Whew! where has time gone! And I am looking at my other children and thinking " I did this several times in the past 9 years?"

I weighed Tavia today. She has lost 7 ounces, making her 5 pounds, 1 ounce. (2300 grams for all the metric system people.) She started at 2500 grams. Patsy told me that she looks like she has grown, but she seems like she is the same to me. I am going to measure her length: she has grown 1/2 inch, making her 18-1/2 inches. Still itsy bitsy. I am glad that she is not as itsy bitsy as Taleah was.

I weighed myself yesterday! I will not tell you beginning or ending weight, but I lost about 12 pounds since birth, most of it baby and fluids. My edema is all gone and most of the aches have disappeared.

We are getting into our nursing groove. I am glad it is not my first time! I would hate to be without my La Leche League lady. I feel helpless when asked for nursing help. I just know what works for me, and I have never been engorged. I talked with my sisters who have nursed, and both said they haven't had that problem either.

I am going to be changing the name of the blog, because, as you read, I am not dealing with Pregnancy anymore! My husband suggested I use this blog to write Tavia info down and as an info journal for different things we stumble upon. We will see, but anyhow, I think I will change the name by this weekend. The address will stay the same.

Signing off...