She's home!

Sorry I didn't post sooner! We got home yesterday morning around 11am. We were home for a few hours and then stopped in at my cousin's birthday party and then we went to Doug's oldest brother's house for cake and ice cream for his younger son's birthday. Busy day! Brooke didn't seem bothered by it at all. She mostly just sleeps.

So far the most stressful part about having her home is her feedings. It can really be a struggle sometimes to get her "minimum" in her and she takes so long to eat sometimes. She's an endless burper and you can never be sure towards the end of the bottle if she needs to burp or is just done. I was actually in tears a couple times last night because I just felt like we weren't doing something right (which probably really isn't the "problem" at all...she just needs to get bigger and closer to her due date for her to eat better). We had no problems feeding her while we were "in" the hospital with her. Well, I guess we aren't technically having problems at home, it's just challenging and a little more overwhelming since we're on our own.

A home health nurse was here this morning to check up on her. Everything looks good so far, except we think she may have lost a tiny bit of weight. It's hard to say since she was weighed on different scales, though. At discharge she was 4lb. 11oz. and today she was 4lb. 10oz. But we'll be following up with the pediatrician this week and probably home health again, too. And depending on our insurance (the HH nurse is looking in to it tomorrow), she may keep coming once a week or something like that for awhile. I hope so...it would be great peace of mind to know she's growing okay! By the way, the nurse measured her at 18 inches!

Ryan just adores Brooke :*). He's always loving on her and it's so sweet. At one point yesterday he said it was *his turn to hold her. I sat beside him and he just sat there with his arms wrapped around her watching TV for a few minutes, lol. I would ask if I could take her back and he would say no. He will just out of the blue walk up and hug her and kiss her. So sweet. So far he seems to be taking to having her here okay, even earlier when I was feeding her and he wanted something and had to wait.

I do have some pictures to post sometime, but I'm not sure when I'll get to them. Hopefully soon!