Yesterday marked Quinn's 1 week birthday and also her first doctor's appointment. She just loves the car! Out like a light in 2 seconds flat. I was nervous about the doctor's appointment because Quinn's feeding schedule has been all over the map lately, but things went well! She peed on the scale when getting weighed though...but to be fair, Steve and I did warn the nurse that she probably would! We just have to take Quinn back in a month for her 1 month check-up.
Mom and Roger left this morning to get back home to NS - they were such a huge help when they were here with the cooking and cleaning. I know that they'll miss Quinn and so do her Nana and Papa! Good thing that someone came up with Skype!
Something that I've come to discover is that nursing can really be a 2 person job...at least in the first few days/weeks. Quinn sleeps so well in between feedings that we always are having to wake her up to feed her...and even then she likes to fall asleep while being fed, which can make the feedings last for a very long time. Or she'll decide to have a pee or poop in the middle of feeding, so then changing her adds to how long the feedings are. I also had some issues starting on Sunday when my milk came in that we're still working on resolving. Our midwife, Grace, was a huge help for this and we're also going to seek the advice of a lactation consultant to make sure that we're doing everything that we can to make her feedings go better. The last 12 hours have been much better, but we still have a ways to go. I keep telling myself that it's only been a week...but when you calculate the fact that 7 days = roughly 60 feedings, it seems like longer than a week!
Everything else is going great though - she's an excellent sleeper, so even though the feedings can take an hour to an hour and a half to get through, she sleeps well until the next feeding in her bassinet so Steve and I can actually get some rest.
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