Our First Week Together

These are unedited, sometimes blurry, slightly filtered snapshots of our first week together. Today was Henry's official due date and tomorrow night marks his first official week.

He had his first doctor's appointment yesterday and already weighs more than his original birth weight! Breastfeeding has been really painful starting out, and last night around 3:30 AM, I finally Googled "breastfeeding latch". My response in my head was, "Oh yeah!" I've noticed a difference already today in the discomfort, which is really nice!

His first time ever nursing! He latched on immediately, which the girls never did.

Daddy changing the first diaper. Steve has been a rockstar on the Mr. Mom front. I've changed a total of two diapers this week - Henry peed all over his own face the first time and all over Evelyn's leg the second time. Clearly, I am not used to boys yet.

In the hospital, they were a little concerned about Henry's blood sugar being low, so we gave him a tablespoon or two of formula, just to get his sugar up. The fun part was that it gave Steve a chance to feed him!

All swaddled and pink

Steve and Henry, having a Daddy moment

Enjoying a quiet moment when Steve and Mel changed shifts and no nurses came in to bother us.

Nursing and sleeping...it's pretty much all the two of us did in the hospital. 

The girls seeing Henry for the first time. 

 

I love how excited they BOTH were to meet and hold the baby!

It doesn't matter what noises or faces he makes - Evelyn pretty much thinks he belongs to her now.

Our "this is our new normal" picture.

 

Finally got him out of the pink hospital hat.

Going home!!! Such a different moment than the mini photo shoot we had with Mel when we took Bella home from the hospital. :) This time, we managed to grab a quick selfie while I corralled Evelyn and Steve went for the car.

In our own space at last!

Steve's present for me when I got home..."initial" bracelets for all three. When I first opened the box, I was like, What's the "h" for? (Blame extreme exhaustion.)

Yep. Pretty sure she's going to smother him on accident.

Meanwhile, Bella lost her second bottom tooth, but didn't even realize it and has no idea where the tooth went. There's just never a dull moment with our firstborn!

Snuggled up and so wise

 

Settled in with Henry to nurse. I looked over, and Evelyn was doing this with her doll...

 

Love it! 

 

Bella has surprised us with how much interest she's taken in Henry. She asks to hold him and does a really great job with handling him!

 

The boys getting some rest

This morning, while Steve took the girls to school, we had some skin contact. It's my favorite thing about the newborn stage, just holding them right against you when they're all warm and naked.