Mi'ja

Sofia Elisa arrived August 24th, at 7:06 pm Wednesday evening after about 16 hours of labor! She is absolutely beautiful, with a full head of hair! She weighed 7 lbs, 11.4 oz. Robert and I were in the hospital until Friday around noon when they discharged me. I had a good labor, no complications. Just painful. More details on the whole hospital experience later. My Sofia is healthy and I couldn't ask for more.

My mom, my sister, and my brother-in-law are visiting for the weekend (my mom is staying for the week too) and have helped out with dishes and such while Robert and I adjust to this new beautful little daughter. Our cats have been put out of the bedroom for an undetermined amount of time and my Buxy seems to have taken this very personally. He scratches and cries at the bedroom door all night. I'm just not comfortable having a 17 lb cat around my almost 8 pound baby. Also with guests in the house, we're keeping our bedroom door closed and if we let the cats in the room they wouldn't have access to their litter boxes. Whiskers has been sleeping with my mom in the living room, and Trouble has just been hanging out like she always does.

Sofia spends most of her time sleeping, eating and dirtying diapers. Robert and I catch sleep when we can. Unfortunately she seems confused about night and day and sleeps more soundly during the day. She likes to spend her nights crying and refusing to go to sleep. I've already been in tears with the breastfeeding. In addition to the sore, cracked nipples that were originally my cause for tears I'm now afraid that we've given her a case of nipple confusion by using the pacifier. After reading more about it, I'm hoping we can correct this. My milk came in yesterday and is quite painful. She is acting frustrated when I put her to the boob and only eats 12 - 15 min total off both breasts. This is usually after trying for an hour. She gets to the boob, latches on, then shakes her head and screams at the top of her lungs.

Robert has been an amazing husband and dad through everything. He was amazing during the labor and by my side every minute. He has been incredible with the baby and I can't believe how lucky I am to have such a wonderful husband. Sofia is the luckiest little girl in the world to have him as a dad.


More details to come later. Right now I'm going to try to catch some sleep while she's asleep. My sister is bringing me breakfast from IHOP.