Home (finally)

The burrito has landed!





We have returned home to Wolseley and all are well. This morning was fairly uneventful, and the afternoon was frustrating, waiting for the pediatrician on call to come from whatever Canada Day barbecue she was at to discharge Sophia. We were ready to go around 10:00 am, when Tricia's ObGyn discharged her, but we ended up waiting till around 3:30 pm for Sophie to be released.

The previous night was a night with a couple more prominent firsts: She began her first obsessive-compulsive behavior pattern, by discovering that she could suck on her own fingers to get that happy feeling. It'll probably turn into some kind of terrible thumb twiddling habit by the time she grows up. They say finger sucking is a gateway behavior, after all.

She also had her first big tantrum blowout yesterday. She fussed and fussed and wouldn't calm down after being fed and changed. It's nothing like the babies who cry all night (in harmony all across the ward), but it is fussier than she has been. The nurses suggested she sleep on Tricia's chest for a while, and that seemed to calm her down. She may just be telling us not to get complacent, and that she will be all the trouble babies are supposed to be once she finds her voice.

Last night was a bit of an ordeal, with fussing and complaining starting at around 10:00 pm. We had a cot in the room for me to sleep in, and we finally had Sophie on the cot with me so Tricia could sleep. That worked well till around 1:30 am when she was ready to eat. Not a bad overnight all things considered. She was up again at 3:30 to feed, then at around 6:00. The nice thing about having a newborn this time of year is that it starts to get light at 4:00 am.

Sophie is very small, with the normal bit of weight loss after birth, meaning that our "#1" diapers are much too big for her. On the way home to Wolseley, we stopped at the drug store and I picked up what I thought were newborn diapers, since the had the word "newborn" on them. When we got home and opened the package, we discovered that they were a bit bigger than our current diapers (of which we bought a jumbo costco pack of like 10,000). So it looks like Sophie will be wearing oversized garments for a while. With any luck, the styles will have changed by the time she is fifteen so that oversized garments are in style for girls again. Come to think of it, I think I will insist that she wear oversized garments regardless of the style. Or maybe I won't let her leave the house. I wonder how protective one can be of one's daughter before it's considered unhealthy...