The last 48 hours were the fastest of my life, many sleepless hours. Looking back to the beginning of the week, we didn't start out with much sleep, so why end the week with sleep?
But anyways, we were taken to our postpartum room 5833 at about 10 pm thursday night. We had ordered pizza from Papa John's since I hadn't eaten since 0715 that morning, and Ed hadn't eaten since lunch time either.
Rowan decided that breastfeeding was great, but of course couldn't get enough of it, so it was a long night full of feeding, she finally decided she could sleep at 0330 after I illegally kept her in bed with me for 2 hours. Ed woke up and put her in the crib at 0530 and she slept until 0730, so we got a few hours of sleep that morning.
We were alone for most of the morning, but from 1130 until about 7pm we were busy with many family and friends coming to visit. It was great because Rowan slept because everyone wanted to hold her, and me and my twins got a break. She was starting to eat better that evening after meeting with the lactation consultant, turns our Rowan is a stellar breastfeeder, just the lack or a break that the twins get has caused them to become rather sore.
So anyway, enough about my breasts, Friday night Ed was able to get a good chunk of sleep while Rowan and I trudged through the night with feedings at least every 2 hours if not more frequently and small chunk of nap here and there. Rowan was busy getting weighed, getting her hep B vaccine, hearing screen, bilirubin check, state screen, all the things in preparation for discharge, so that is another reason she didn't get to sleep a whole lot.
Then today we spent the morning packing up and preparing to go home. We actually were out the door at 1130 this morning and home by noon. Rowan slept the entire ride home, Ed was a little freaked out with driving with a baby in the car now, he has to be a bit more cautious than he used to be, we will see how long that lasts.
Made lunch immediately when we got home, my mom was nice enough to do a little grocery shopping for us today to stock up on some things and had things ready for lunch. Ed grilled some burgers, we ate, then I fed Rowan, and pumped and headed to bed for a wonderful 2 1/2 hour nap.
Was up in time for dinner which Sue was slaveing over a hot stove and oven today for us. Our refrigerator hasn't had this much food in it in a long time. So Ed and I ate dinner and have been relaxing most of the night, preparing to sleep in our own bed, even if it is going to be disturbed sleep, we can't wait.
So anyway, here are plenty of new pictures of us coming home and our hospital stay. Thank you so much to everyone that brought us food and gifts to the hospital and to our home. We really do appreciate it! We enjoyed all the visitors as well!
Rowan using her pack n play!! And hanging out with dad for a little bit, he looks like he is sleeping, but he isn't!
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