Elizabeth Lucy, 7 lbs, 10 oz, born 6:36 PM on 7-19-07. Her 14 mo. old sister, Anneliese isn't quite sure what to make of the new addition, but just seems curious - "Dat?" "That's your little sister, Beth."
I'm hoping we get the sleep cycles changed around soon, as Annie sleeps from 9 PM- 7 AM, & Beth's 2nd & 3rd night, she's stayed awake (wants to nurse non-stop too
: ) until 5 AM, so I'm getting about 2 hours of sleep plus a couple of naps :P If daddy holds her at night, or I set her down, she just screams (which wakes Annie). This AM she didn't sleep until I finally tried putting her down on her tummy, but if she's on her back, w/in 60 seconds she waves her arms, kicks, gets scared of the open space & screams (swaddling didn't work). So, how bad is tummy sleeping? Her latch is a little iffy yet, so we only nurse sitting up.
The birth itself went great, DH brought DD & her playpen to the hospital, I had Connie, our doula, w/me, & we had a 16 hour natural birth - contrax at 2:30 AM, left house at 7 AM & checked in at 8, did a lot of walking & hot showers, CNM at birth - did tear again where I did before, but had pretty short pushing phase. Semi hourly monitoring, but they left us alone otherwise - did request them to break my water near the end.
I'm hoping we get the sleep cycles changed around soon, as Annie sleeps from 9 PM- 7 AM, & Beth's 2nd & 3rd night, she's stayed awake (wants to nurse non-stop too
: ) until 5 AM, so I'm getting about 2 hours of sleep plus a couple of naps :P If daddy holds her at night, or I set her down, she just screams (which wakes Annie). This AM she didn't sleep until I finally tried putting her down on her tummy, but if she's on her back, w/in 60 seconds she waves her arms, kicks, gets scared of the open space & screams (swaddling didn't work). So, how bad is tummy sleeping? Her latch is a little iffy yet, so we only nurse sitting up.The birth itself went great, DH brought DD & her playpen to the hospital, I had Connie, our doula, w/me, & we had a 16 hour natural birth - contrax at 2:30 AM, left house at 7 AM & checked in at 8, did a lot of walking & hot showers, CNM at birth - did tear again where I did before, but had pretty short pushing phase. Semi hourly monitoring, but they left us alone otherwise - did request them to break my water near the end.
