Week in review --Part 1 of 2

We can't get over the similarities between Eddie and Josephine. This is a stretch Ed did that I never could seem to capture and the photo below was one of my favorites of him--only this is Josie.

We managed her first bath at home this week. I'd forgotten how wobbly an infant head can be. Had planned to take more pictures but spent a good deal of time helping Den keep her head out of the water. Cookie and Eddie looked on, Ed oftentimes horrified when she cried. He genuinesly seems very upset when she cries as if he doesn't understand why we would let her cry or why she would be crying. Guess this is a really good sign.

Oddly, she had virtually no reacation when we first put her in. It was when we started putting water all over her that she kind of freaked. Hard to transition from bathing a 2 year old to a 8 day old.

I know I'm jynxing myself, but Eddie has been FANTASTIC with Josie. Today he asked to hold her and then at bedtime has to give her a kiss and a hug. We just about fell over. When I'm feeding her, he just wants to stand next to me on the couch and touch my neck, like he often does. He'll touch her face, or hair, or whatever.

Here Den is giving her very first bottle (if you don't count the one she was erronously given in the hospital nursery by a tech who was trying to be helpful). She took the first, but not subsequent bottles. Why, you might ask were we giving her a bottle so early--and one filled with 1/2 formula and 1/2 breastmilk? Why Valium of course.

To make a potentially long story shorter, I had some form of a headache from mirgraine to sharp piercing pain from Sat. through Thurs. These were accompanied by neck, shoulder, and upper back pain that together left me with a very limited range of motion and in intense pain. 4-5 doctors later we had ruled out things such as leaking spinal fluid from the spinal I was given for the c-section, and post partum pre-eclampsia. In the end, was likely due to a whole host of issues that compounded and got worse with each passing day to the point that I was basically unable to function. The valium worked wonders. The flexeril did nothing and the massage I got on Thurs. helped so much I'm going back next week for another.

So...after the nurses at the peds office were freaked about me taking Valium and nursing, I decided we'd better try some alternatives. Today talked to the pediatrician to find that Valium is fine, as long as I don't plan to take it for the next 6 months.