Sunday, August 06, 2006

i'm not the avid, or rather addict blogger that my wife is, so i havent posted about the very recent arrival of our long awaited little bean - no aka Liliana - but we seem to just call her Lily :)
she's very cute, but recently mostly when she sleeps :) the poor thing has been having trouble with breastfeeding - she knows to suck, but gets freaked out when something actually comes out - i dont think i'd have to ask shenry to refrain, but then again, i just wrote this, so, where does that put us..?
awkward moments aside, i think Lily's jaundice was also making it harder for her, but she seems to have turned the corner just last night - after sunbathing for the whole afternoon, her jaundice seems to have subsided considerably, although the white of her eyes is still somewhat green, but her skin doesnt look like an orange anymore, and since about midnight she's been eating every 2-3 hours, like everybody says babies should, not every 7 like before. so it's been a bit of a sleepless night, and poor phx is just exhausted. and Lily has also been eating more consistently, with a much higher amount of long latches. hehe - look at me, using da baby lingo like it aint nuthin' but a thang, yos :) but she still gets these frantic lil' bouts when she's just too agitated to latch on and stay on.
ha! i just heard her cry out - back for another feedin' :)
but we love her so... :)

2 comments:

moi said...

sounds like an incredible journey. I'm happy to hear that her colouring is working itself out, and my god does it ever sound exhausting. I hope the breastfeeding works out, I've heard it can take a bit for everyone to be happy.
:)

shenry said...

I shall refrain... but there is so much potential... I shall refrain... but... oh god, this is taking a lot more willpower than you realize... so, um... you need to teach Lily how to suppress that gag reflex and swallow... Arg!... I'm so sorry about that. Feel free to slug me in the left shoulder. (Not the right shoulder, because it's tender from the wrath of Silver.)