week1.

here's what's happened week 1. grab your coke and popcorn, its action packed. :) and don't worry, i wont do this every week. just her first week here with us.

april 16, saturday:
finley decided she'd like april 16 to be her birthday. LOTS of family and some friends came in to meet our sweet finley. i heard they took up the entire waiting room and even had a pizza party. we stayed in the hospital that night and got a little bit of sleep. tough to do when nurses are checking me and her throughout the night.

april 17, sunday:
had some visitors over. ummm...pretty chill day. sunday night we took advantage of the nursery to get some sleep. fin would eat and then go sleep in the nursery. then she came back 3 hrs later to eat and then back to the nursery. then we kept her. it was a good decision, we felt much better monday after getting some sleep.

april 18, monday:
we got to come home!! filled out some paperwork, fin got her hearing checked (passed!), pediatrician checked her one more time and we got discharged. of course we were walking out the door when fin decided it was time to eat again. she didn't mind the car ride (slept the whole way) and that afternoon we just took it easy. everyone went back to austin, except mom who's helping us for a few days. monday night was pretty tiring. she decided she'd like to snack every hour. it wasn't TERRIBLE b/c she'd wake up, snack and fall right back to sleep. i just had to get up every hour.


april 19-22, tues.- fri.:
i'll combine these days b/c luckily we pretty much do the same thing everyday. the nights have been going really well now (knock on wood). she eats about every 3 hrs so that means she goes down to bed around 11 in her pack and play napper (best. thing. ever.), wakes up 3 hrs later to eat (around 2 or 3), sleeps another 3 hours or so, wakes up to eat (around 6) and sleeps some more. i know this can change any second, but for now it's awesome. normally at night brandon will change her and bring her to me and i do the feeding. works for now!

during the day she's been more and more alert. she just likes to look around and check things out. she wants to start lifting her head and she's pretty strong already. she LOVES to be snuggled and swaddled. i know most babies love this, but i think she especially does b/c she was so tight in me. :) we put her in the swing for the first time and she liked it once it got moving.

so all in all we're having a great time. went to the doctor yesterday and i quote "she's perfect." now THAT'S what you want to hear. she weighed 7 lb 1 oz which is great. babies lose weight during their first week of life and then should be back to their birth weight by 2 weeks. she's already just about there (7 lb 3 oz). that made me feel better b/c with nursing you really don't know how much she's eating. we'll go back in 2 weeks for another check up!