First Few Days

We've made it through a whole weekend with the Tiny Squee. We haven't broken her or anything.

So far, she's been pretty well-behaved. She spent most of the first two days sleeping with only occasional waking periods. In fact, she slept so much that it was really hard to get her to nurse frequently enough. Tiny babies are supposed to nurse every 4 hours minimum, but she just wouldn't wake up to eat. Dr Liz said it wasn't too much of a problem unless she was getting more lethargic instead of more alert as time went on.

We haven't had much luck getting her to sleep in the cosleeper. She spent the first two days blorking up bubbly mucus stuff, which is apparently due to amniotic fluid in the tummy. Every time we'd lay her down on her back, she'd start making this noise that sounded like backed-up plumbing and she'd start to get fussy and cough this stuff up. It's disconcerting to hear your baby making plumbing noises and I was worried that she'd aspirate stuff and choke. On the plus side, it's a noise that wakes you up immediately out of a sound sleep (like the horking-up-hairballs noise that cats make), so it's been easy to tip her over on her side before she actually spits anything up.

The cosleeper also just seems so large and cold for such a tiny, warm squee. Friday night, I slept with her head on one of my shoulders for the first half of the night, then moved out to the couch and slept part-way sitting up with her on my tummy. Saturday and Sunday worked out pretty similarly, except that we stayed in the bed instead of on the couch. Periodically, we wake up and try to nurse. We're getting a couple of hours of sleep in a row with maybe one period of 3 or 4 hours near morning. I've been napping during the day, so I'm actually not feeling too exhausted at this point.

Last night, my milk started to come in. Tiny Squee got much more excited about nursing once that happened. She's also been much more alert and has spent a lot more time awake. This also means that she's spending a lot more time mad about various things (mostly the fact that she's not nursing at any given point). I'd be happy to let her nurse all the time except that it hurts. She chews and my nipples are sore. She's a little piranha squee.