The Little Lady

Sadie met Jason's family the night she was born. They told me as they wheeled me from the LandD room to the post partum room that they were waiting, and in my brain I have a few scattered glimpses of memory of them being there but otherwise I was too exhausted to retain any information. That, and I was on pain medications.

Fortunately, my memory of those first two days improved after a few hours. There isn't much to say about these days, except for that they are filled with sheer bliss. After an isolated scare right after delivery when a nurse didn't like Sadie's color and thought maybe her breathing was not good, Sadie did very well. But because of that they kept her in the nursery the first night under surveillance. It was so nice to get several hours sleep that we had her stay in the nursery again the next night, even though she had been cleared to stay with us.

Here are a few pics from those first days in the hospital.

Jason had been growing out his hair since before our previous miscarriage. He had planned on donating it, but the primary goal, for some reason, was to get to the birth of our first child. We don't know why we set that goal, but we did. And you better believe that the moment he reached our home, it was getting shaved off!

Tiny feet, good for nibbling...

Ahh, the look of love. And jaundice. Believe it or not, I didn't notice that our baby was moderately carrot-colored at this point. We were in for a bit of a ride due to the jaundice. More on that later.