What all happened today is a bit of a blur. We tried to have William in the room with us as much as possible, and he was with us almost the whole day. Darryl went home briefly during the day, but spent the night of the 3rd at the hospital with me. William nursed very well when he was hungry, but since the lactation consultant had said he should eat for 20 minutes every 2-3 hours, I was getting a bit worried because William was so sleepy. It seemed like all he wanted to do was sleep! He really seemed to enjoy snuggling next to us and it was so nice holding William and watching his expressions; we spent hours doing just that!

Every so often nurses would come in to check me or to check William. Someone came in to give me hospital food (it was not awful). Getting out of bed, especially the whole toilet routine, was very tiring for me. It felt like my muscles were so weak and I got out of breath so easily. Dr. Smith (from Lee obstetrics) came to check on me and told me my iron was very low, so prescribed iron pills for me. This made sense since I was so pale and weak, and loss of blood (or low iron) may account for my initial nausea and faintness on the 2nd too.

On my tape recorder, I made a note of how William had hiccups twice and sneezed a couple of times, spit up and burped and passed gas, that he peed and pooped his diaper successfully, and that when Darryl changed him for the first time he peed! He moves his hands and can open his eyes and “look at stuff” (I don’t know how much he was able to see or focus at that point). “He’s very sweet. He’s extremely sweet. We love him very, very, very, VERY much! More than we could ever even describe.”