Rebecca Grace

I can't believe it's taken me this long to write a post...but I guess I have had my hands full the past 5 days. My delivery went very well (much better than last time) and my recovery has also been much easier so far. I was discharged from the hospital after two nights, and we even went out to Benjamin for church on Sunday. Everyone there was excited to see Rebecca, and Jesse and I (we haven't been out for the past two weeks).

We are settling into life here at home..and plan on leaving on Wednesday or Thursday for Canada. Rebecca has been sleeping pretty well at night. I don't know if this is because of the painkillers I was taking and they just made her sleepy, or if she will just be one of those babies that likes to sleep. Either way, I don't expect it to last very long! We are slowly getting the hang of nursing. I thought that it would be easy this time, because I had already done it once with Jesse - I had a year's experience. But, I forgot to remember that Rebecca has no experience, and she has to learn how to eat. That seems so silly to say, but it really is true. Babies are born with some instinct on how to nurse, but they still have to learn how to latch on right and to be patient...sometimes it takes a while for the milk to get there! Anyway, I think we are getting the hang of things now. Yesterday I was ready to quit...sure she wouldn't be able to figure it out. Then I was reminded by Mike that she was only 5 days old, and with Jesse we were just taking him home from the hospital at 5 days old and we struggled with nursing for a good week after that. So, with that in mind, we will continue to try with renewed patience. She has only lost around 10 oz (Jesse dropped almost a pound in the same amount of time), so we aren't really concerned yet.

Some of you may be wondering why there aren't a lot of videos of Rebecca on the Dropshots site...that's mostly because all the seems to do is eat and sleep. I could take a video of her sleeping if anyone out there would like me to...and as far as taking a video of me feeding her, I think that's best left off camera!

So, there you have it. I am feeling great and we have a beautiful little girl.