Eva's First Week

Oh what a week!  Eva's been home now for a week.  Every day has been different from the previous one.  When we brought Eva home last Tuesday, she was pretty cranky and hungry! We ended up supplementing her with formula a couple times just to try to satisfy her little tummy until my milk came in.

Fortunately, that wasn't too much longer after that.  By Wednesday, it was coming in and we started to turn the corner with her crankiness.  By Friday, she was a happy camper and eating like crazy.  Saturday was a growth spurt day and she was eating almost every hour.

Sleep has been great.  She was in her newborn phase the first couple of days and would happily sleep hours at a time.  A real blessing as we adjusted to her continuous and frequent newborn needs (8-12 feedings and diaper changes a day)  So far, she has been sleeping thru the night (although we don't expect that to last as she becomes less and less a newborn).  She wakes for feedings but then falls right back to sleep.

We went for her first checkup on Thursday.  She'd lost half a pound but we weren't too worried since milk was newly available.  Everything else checked out!  She was 20ins, 6lbs 9ozs with a head circumference 13.25ins.

 Here are some of our favorite pictures of the week.  Eva is holding Ellie's hand in the first picture.  We have been blessed with a very loving big sister.  Ellie's given us a hard time but has been soooo wonderful towards Eva.