At home with the new family

It's crazy - you'd think we'd have all kinds of free time to post now that we're home, but that's certainly not the case. Without a nursing staff to take care of her, we're starting to feel like real parents now. So...sorry we've been remiss in posting. I'll make it up by posting a lot more pics and video.

I'm sitting on the porch, listening through the monitor to Alex hiccuping in her sleep. She's been doing great since bringing her home. She's on her own natural sleeping/eating schedule, instead of the hospital's, which was every 3 hours. So that's been a huge relief, and she sleeps like a log. She stays up quite a bit during the day, and manages to sleep most of the night. Not straight through, of course - sometimes she wakes up after sleeping 4+ hours and sometimes we actually have to wake her up. Now that I think of it, in the past 2 nights I can only recall her waking up crying once.

We've been sleeping fine - Nic & I take shifts with her taking the 1st feeding around 2am, and I feed her around 6. She eats a lot more during the day, which is great. we certainly won't complain.

We have tons of Dr's appointments lined up for her, mostly at Children's Hospital, about 10 miles from us. It's a brand new hospital with the best Spina Bifida clinic in the region, so we're pretty lucky to have that. Alex will be seeing lots of different docs in different specialties, and they are all at the SB clinic. We have an appt w/the neurosurgeon on Tues and another head ultrasound. There is fluid accumulating slowly, so the shunt isn't out of the question. But we'll keep hoping :)

We're looking forward to a great weekend with our baby. Thanks to everyone for bringing us food and homecoming gifts. We're very grateful and enjoy your visits.

Here are some pics from her sponge bath today. She really seemed to enjoy it.