Breast Feeding

Note: the time on these posts is all wrong since there is no Internet at the hospital. I am writing them as they happen but won't be able to post them till later. This one happened at around noon.

Tricia has been sleeping since the birth (and quite pale, too). She has been bleeding a lot (not unusual) but she is slowly regaining her shape and starting to feel like a normal human again. She went to have a bath at around 10:15, getting cleaned up and relaxing and keeping those stiches clean - she had a second degree perineal tear during the birth (meaning skin torn but not muscle) and her stitches will fall out over time.

After the bath, we went to the NICU to see Sophie and to try breastfeeding, but she had already been cleaned up and released to the Nurserey, meaning that everything really is fine, and none of the problems they were keeping an eye on came to be. Tricia was feeling a bit faint after the walk to the NICU, so she went back to the delivery room and I went and got Sophie from the nurserey. Now mother and baby are back together for the long haul.

We tried breastfeeding as soon as Sophie and Tricia were back together, and Sophie seemed to take well to it but didn't drink much - about fifteen seconds again and then she fell asleep. That's pretty much all she's been doing - sleeping. we've changed her diaper a couple times and she hasn't made a peep, we've coddled over her, and so have her grandparents (Hank and Gladys) and she hasn't fussed at all. A quiet little sleeping little baby. That's probably going to change soon enough.