What I Have Learned in the First Two Weeks...

Go to the hospital when you think you need to…don’t listen to the nurse when you call to say you’re in pain and they say to just wait it out and it will go away. It doesn’t.

The man with the drugs is amazing. The needle isn’t that big and it doesn’t hurt that bad. You will get over it and everything will be better in the world when you can no longer feel the pain.

Don’t have a baby at Tripler during the month of July. This is when the new “doctors” show up. You might get lucky and get to deal with the two fools I did. Justin said if I punched them he wouldn’t have stopped me. (But really, I had a great experience there and my nurse and doctor who was training the fools were FANTASTIC- I would recommend them)

We have a very hungry baby who was ready to eat from the time she was born…OUCH!! J

When changing the first poopy diaper make sure you put the next diaper on the baby before you wrap her back up…I didn’t learn this the hard way…someone else did…not naming names…

When you leave Tripler it’s amazing the amount of drugs you leave with. I felt like a grandma walking out with a huge sack of pills and other fun things.

Your mom needs to stay with you for atleast a month because you will be an irrational crying mess and she might be the only person who doesn’t drive you crazy.

Our baby has IBS- not really, but close. She eats and within minutes- sometimes seconds lets it alllll go. She even has a little smirk when she does her business. I think it’s pretty cute. She is just like the book I read when I was pregnant: Eat, Sleep, and Poop. It’s what fills her day. *Read on for a story about her pictures she had taken.

We have a good sleeper on our hands. She loves her newborn napper. She does not love her bassinet. Hopefully the crib will work out for her.

I can’t stop taking pictures of her. She is not going to want her picture taken or a bow in her hair by the time she is two. Oh well.

Watching Justin hold her and talk to her makes me happy. He’s going to be in big trouble as she grows up. He can swaddle her the best- which makes me jealous. I’m working on my skills.

People say to sleep when the baby sleeps. Seriously, not possible. How would I do anything else during the day? I'm tired, but I get over it. One of the moms in my class told me that I will be sleep deprived and tired for the next 18+ years. She is probably right and I just need to get over it now. 

We love her more than we could ever imagine. She is the best and having her here makes me forget about all the not so fun stuff (morning sickness every day for 5/6 months) that happened over the course of 39 weeks.

*Picture story: We had Claire’s newborn pictures taken and it was fantastic. The photographer told me not to freak out because the baby will pee/poop on her blankets and it will be fine. So, Claire was laying on the bean bag naked that had a warmer under the blankets making her nice and relaxed. The photographer is about to snap a picture when Claire lets out one of her fairly noisy toots. The result: POOP flying about two feet (literally) and hitting our entertainment center. The five adults watching this just stared for a few seconds because seriously it flew and everyone was in shock.  I wish I would have taken a picture for later in life. 

I know there is more...but it's 11 pm and I'm tired. These two weeks have been fun and tiring.

I woudn't trade it for anything.