home from the hospital

hi shira,

you are home. in fact, you are in my left hand as i peck this out with my right.
i'll update this with more about how stdra reacted to you a little later.

Ok, I'm back. Shira, your first night home was not too bad, it could have been much worse. Neither your mom or I slept too much and we shouldn't have expected to. You stayed on the three hour schedule pretty well until the 4 am to 6am period where you seemed to need to feed for a couple hours straight. Although some of that time you seemed uninterested in feeding but not interested in sleeping, either.

You had a pretty good first meeting with your big sister, too. She came with me from her pre school class to the hospital to pick you and your mom up. She ran across the atrium to see you for the first time. She's pretty interested in helping out with you, but doesn't quite understand your fragility quite yet.

Some more about you: You are kind of a dainty little thing, but still kind of wire like. You look tiny but seem pretty strong. The nurses at the hospital all commented on that. You can hold your head up really well for a girl your age. Once in the hospital, when you were under the lights, I thought you were going to turn yourself over. That's a feat usually not done until around 3 months of age. Your legs are skinny but again you have some power in them.

I think I commented on this before, but when you sleep, you never really look completely relaxed. Especially your face is always moving. Your limbs don't move as much particularly when you are bundled, but they aren't completely motionless, either. But your head and face are perpetual motion.

It's great to have you home with the family. You just have to keep eating and that will help you finally end the jaundice.

Love, Aba