Ava and I had our first "day" alone together yesterday. My mom and grandma left on Tuesday and I really miss having them here, but Ava and I did fine on our own.
She is seriously the best baby ever. She never cries, except when she wakes up (and I usually pick her up before she lets out more than a few squawks 
) and once in awhile when she's getting her diaper changed (only if she's hungry when I'm trying to change her). She's had two baths since we've been home and she loved both of them. We're still trying to get her days and nights "un-mixed-up", though. She'll sleep 4 hours at a time during the day, but only 2-3 at night. So today I've been waking her up every 2 hours. Hopefully she'll sleep better tonight. Oh, and she *loves* having her back scratched. She'll lay on her side on my lap for a long time if I'm scratching her back.
She's also a great breast-feeder. She got the hang on latching on pretty quickly and she's almost back up to her birth weight. When I took her to the breastfeeding clinic on Saturday, she was 7 lbs 1 oz…on Monday she was 7lbs 6 oz….and yesterday she was 7 lbs 8 oz. She gets about 1 1/2 oz when she eats, too, so she's doing really well. She has her first doctor appointment next Wednesday, and the nurses at the breastfeeding clinic said her doctor will be thrilled with her weight gain.
We took some more pictures and another video this morning, too, so they're in her photobucket. They're in her newest album…"Ava Second Week". I can't believe she's 8 days old already!!
Twenty Things That Change
1. You look at your baby in the mirror instead of yourself.
2. You finally stop to smell the roses, because your baby is in your arms.
3. Where you once believed you were fearless, you now find yourself afraid.
4. You're less self-involved and more self-motivated.
5. The sacrifices you thought you made to have a child no longer seem like sacrifices.
6. You respect your body…finally. (Hooray for baby-making!)
7. You have stronger opinions and are stronger willed.
8. You respect your parents and love them in a new way. (Hooray for grandparents!)
9. You find that your baby's pain feels much worse than your own.
10. You believe once again in the things you believed in as a child. (Hooray for the tooth fairy!)
11. You lose touch with the people in your life that you should have banished years ago.
12. Your heart breaks much more easily.
13. You think of your baby 234,836,178,976 times a day. In fact, you're so busy with this that you forget everything else.
14. Every day is a surprise.
15. Bodily functions are no longer repulsive. In fact, they please you. (Hooray for poop!)
16. You think before you speak.
17. You become a morning person. (Hooray for watching the sun rise!)
18. If you have a son, you no longer curse men. (Hooray for all men!)
19. If you have a daughter, you hope she won't endure your same heartaches.
20. Your love becomes limitless, a superhuman power.
Posted: March 29th, 2007 under Random Thoughts.
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You can see her picture at http://www.stormontvail.org/ Click on "Visit our Newborns" and "Our Newest Arrivals". When you get to the list, you're looking for "Ava L." We also had professional pictures taken this morning and I've posted them in My Photos. Those are the only ones in there so far, though….I'll have to get the ones off of my camera in the next few days.
I have no more tricks up my sleeve. I'm just going to have to sit here and wait for her to decide to come, because nothing I've tried has worked.