We’re still at the hospital. Lauren developed a fairly high fever, 102, and the doctors wanted to keep her another day. The fever broke last night at about 3AM and she’s much better now.
The first day was a little rough. We had a lot of visitors, which was great, but it wore out mother and baby and made feeding a problem that night. Haddie was so exhausted she kept falling asleep while she was eating.
As a result of all the activity, the exhaustion, and Lauren being so worn out, Lauren’s milk didn’t come in as soon as it might. Haddie lost a lot of weight. She lost down to 7 lbs 2 oz. The doctors were concerned because that was about 10% of her birth weight. Lauren’s milk finally came in yesterday afternoon around 2 PM and Haddie is eating well now. She ate every 2 hours last night and wanted daddy to rock her to sleep afterwards, every time. Needless to say, I didn’t get a lot of sleep last night. She’s worth it though. She is so cute!
I’ve got some new pictures from that first day with all the family and friends holding her and enjoying the new life. I’ll go through them and try to post some later this afternoon.
Thank you for all the prayers. We really felt them. The Lord is good and we feel very blessed with our precious little daughter.
I’m so glad Lauren is doing better! Those first few nights are rough…but it just takes one look at that sweet little face and it no longer matters, does it?
I LOVED seeing the video of you two with Haddie on Grandpa G’s blog…I wish I could be there and hug all three of you! I’m just beside myself I’m so excited for you and I know Haddie Grace is one incredibly blessed baby girl to have such wonderful, devoted and loving parents! I hope you get to go home soon and get started as a family!