New addition

I can't believe that Lily is already 10 days old...time has really flown by. All in all our transition to a family of four has been pretty easy. Lily's birth seems so much easier than Joshua's in every way. Of course it helps that I am more relaxed and know what I'm doing this time around....there is nothing like the learning curve of a first time mother. I must say that recovering from a c-section minus the labor part of things has been night and day difference. I was able to sleep in my own bed the night before...not that I slept much but that's beside the point. We arrived at the hospital at a very early 5:15, by 7:15 I was anesthetized and in the OR, they started at 7:20 amidst comments of the snow coming down outside and Lillian Rose Millner was born at 7:29. I was out of surgery and back in recovery with her in my arms by 7:50. They had me feed her before they took her to the newborn nursery and I was in my room by 9:30. We came home from the hospital on Friday and have been home for a week now.

Lillian weighed in at 8 lbs 1 0z and is 20 inches long. She is smaller than Joshua was at birth but the difference seems gigantic instead of just half and inch and 3/4 of a pound. It's easy to forget just how tiny they are, and I tend to have larger babies! Breast feeding the second time around is so much better! I haven't had many of the problems that Joshua and I had starting off and I'm not nearly as sore this time around. I remember everything getting much easier around 3 weeks last time and am looking forward to that effortless point again.




Big brother Joshua is starting to come around on the transition. He's getting curious in spite of himself and I often find him looking in on Lily while she's asleep in the bassinet. Joshua came up to the hospital the first night to see us and it may have been a mistake. I was still numb from the epidural, still had my iv and hadn't gotten out of bed yet. Poor little guy didn't understand why he couldn't get in bed with me and had lots of questions for grandma and grandpa when they left. The second night was better. I made sure I was out of bed and moving around when they came up and let Joshua sit on the bed next to me. We even held Lily together. He looks utterly bewildered in the pictures! Since we've been home he's asked to hold her twice. The first time, she immediately spit up all over him! It took a couple of days for him to try again, and this time he needed her on a blanket so he didn't get all wet. He's been sweet to Lily but is acting out in other ways at school. I know it will take time, we've rocked his little world upside down and backwards. I'm sure it will help when I can do regular things again. I am moving around pretty well after surgery but I still can't drive and I can't lift anything heavier than Lily. We've done some special things for just him and that's helped a bunch. I'm sure in a couple of weeks we will be back to the status quo.