Week One - Sleep? Yeah Right!

Bringing home our daughter was the happiest day of our lives. I am totally impressed with how helpful my husband has been with house work and grocery shopping, he's a good guy, even if he hogs the entire bed.

Our daughter is officially a week old today. As a new mother, I didn't realize the true depth of a newborn's sleep schedule. I do now. I believe my daughter is a vampire (haha). At first, our nights would be interupted every two hours, if we're lucky every three hours. I must say that the adjustment process of not getting sleep was a little rough the first day, however the saying "sleep when they sleep" has proved so true in our case. A mix of that and a mix of the fact that I can not get enough of her gorgeous little face, I mean I stare at her 50% of the day, I can't stand when my husband wants to play with her, ughs I am so selfish! I am elated that he goes back to work Monday and I don't for another two months (yay! nonstop ten hours of alone time). I'm breastfeeding, pumping and supplementing with formula. Basically I try to give her 75% of breastmilk and 25% of formula. I know that this ratio will change once she gets 6 weeks old, but I feel that the immune support of breastmilk is essential for her. She's a fussy latcher, she knows how to latch but if given the opportunity she will take a bottle, my husband can't stand her crying and breastfeed latching isn't a piece of cake, so it's terribly annoying to have him in the house when I'm breastfeeding, he's a softy (my husband does whatever his girls say haha so far) and he goes and makes a bottle for her, totally bypassing the point, but when given the opportunity she does in fact latch, but the other problem with her latching is that she is a BIG EATER and will eat and eat, so last night, after what felt like forever of breastfeeding she puked what appeared to be half a bottle and demanded more milk. She's gorgeous so of course I gave her half a oz....lol