WE DID IT!! *Updated*

August 11, 2010

We have nursed for a full 24 hour period! She nursed ALL day!! ALL DAY...nursed without fussing, without crying, just took it like a champ!! My sweet girl!! This has made me soo incredibly happy!

I never had a baby have a hard time latching on and she did not want too! But she did and I am so excited, I never thought I would be this excited for her to be nursing!! 

She is seriously so sweet, and just so perfect! Her little face is so tiny and cute!! We love her so much! 

Sweet Kate!! We love you!! 

Love Mommy

Kate - 15 Days *Updated*

So its been 15 days! Its been so hard, but so rewarding as well. She is so small, little, fragile, I love her so much. She has one of the most perfect newborn faces I have seen! She reminds me a lot of Jocelyn when she was born with a little bit of Bridger, and then Jed and I in between. =)

We are still struggling with the nursing, today we have a dr. appointment and I will ask him about her latching. She is having problems with the bottle as well, so I wonder if it has something to do with her tounge. Bridger had to get the underneath part snipped so that he would be able to suck better.

Other than that she is such a good baby! She doesn't have any colics, wakes up every 3-4 hours to eat, and shes a really content baby. She LOVES taking baths, she loves them !! She was falling asleep yesterday in her little bath. Bridger and Jocelyn love to watch her take baths and think its so funny that a newborn is taking a "Bubble Bath".

Bridger and Jocelyn have been amazing! They love her so much and are so protective of her. They have been so helpful and just simply amazing the last 2 weeks.

Can't believe we are a family of 5 now!! We are loving it...

Cat

Today------Day 12......Hell Week

Ok, so in football terms there is a week called "Hells Week" where the Freshmen players  are put to the test, they are made to do these extreme things in order to get into the team. So initiation start! I asked my boyfriend a football player at the time, does that make you angry? He said no, because when he became a senior he would be able to do it to all the freshmen. =)

 I think that is what the first 10 days of a newborns life is...Initiation week. Hell Week. Our parents way of getting back at us, telling us they want grandkids...AH!! They are now the seniors and we are the freshmen, welcome to the week of dome. Getting up at odd hours of the night, eating, changing, burping, swaying, jumping, cooing, nursing, warming, bathing, cleaning, pumping, and doing it all on a few hours of sleep.

BUT I think I made the team!!  She is now 12 days old, alive and healthy, and it seems like there is light at the end of the tunnel. We are pumping and bottle feeding her at night, and then trying to nurse during the day, its still a struggle but today she latched on after just at BIT of struggling. We are learning!!!

But on the 12th day ...I now have a COLD. YES arrrrrrhhhhh I have a stuffy nose, sore throat, body ache and a headache. ugh. I am trying not to breath on little Kate, but its so hard. We might just bottle feed these next few days and then go back to try nursing. I just don't want a sick baby!! Now that will be a sad day.

Yesterday we went for a walk around the block, and it was kind of nice to get out of the house, but I am for sure not ready to hit reality. I can't even think about going somewhere with all three kids, nursing in public..YEAH RIGHT?!?! and controlling Bridger and Jocelyn. I know this will pass, but it hasn't passed YET.

But just to leave on a good note, man I love that little thing....she is the most sweetest Baby!!! Her adorable chubby face just smiles ALL the time. The kids adore her, and she already has Jed wrapped around her finger, ...and ME TOO. We are so incredibly lucky to have her in our family.

Utnil next time

cat