7QT: Post Partum Edition

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Surprise, we have a baby girl!  Our daughter was born by emergency c-section at 36.5 weeks on May 15, at 10:41 p.m.  She is tiny but doing very well.  She did not require a NICU stay, for which I am additionally grateful.  I am healing as well as can be expected at this point--this is my first section, so I'm learning the ins and outs of recovery from major abdominal surgery.  I've got the birth story typed up, and will probably post it to the other blog sometime next week.  Suffice to say that our guardian angels were working overtime that day, and I'm very grateful to have easy access to a modern medical facility that can get a baby out in a hurry when need be.

Yes, there is a baby in there! (Incidently, the blanket is the one that my mom brought me home from the hospital in; we've also used it for the other three)

She sleeps a lot, and seems to be a better nurser than any of my other kids (knock on wood), but it is hard to say what sort of baby she will turn out to be as we've not yet passed her actual due date of June 8.  I'm hoping she stays a calm peaceful baby, but nothing in previous experience would lead me to expect it.  In any case, I'm really enjoying having such a quiet immediate post partum experience--I'm tired but not delirious, and my skin isn't crawling from 18 hours of non-stop nursing and crying.  We'll take it!

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She mostly sleeps all the time, but has about an hour in the early evening where her eyes are open.  She looks a bit like my newborn pictures, and favors Boo quite a bit.

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 Coming home from the hospital--she was almost too tiny for the car seat.  They had to do a test at the hospital to make sure she was able to breathe in the seat.

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Hanging out with Piglet.  For the purposes of this blog, I'm going to call her Ponchik.  (It means donut in Russian.  I lived with a Russian family that had a cat called Ponchik and I thought it was cute.  It kind of suits her.  I've also called her Chicken Little a few times, because she is so tiny, but I'm sure that won't last!)

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Birdie isn't quite sure about this new little person.  She is excited about the baby--"Baby!! Baby!! Baby!!" but doesn't quite know what to do with her.  

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We named her on the 8th day, as is our Orthodox practice.

--Bonus (because I can't help myself)--

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