Day 2 With My Baby: Newborn Poop and All
I thought it would be a lot harder with a newborn
Last night wasn’t so bad. My baby was a really good sleeper last night and no scary middle of the night newborn poop blow outs yet. If I am being honest, I thought our first night with a newborn would be a lot harder than what it was. She really slept for 4-5 hour stretches all night and never really cried. I did more sleep than I planned for, so I feel pretty good. My husband snored away next to me so he feels great! I think we will be ok with a newborn. She didn’t sleep all night like my friend’s babies seem to….but I feel ok today.
Is it normal that she wants to eat every hour?
My nipples are pretty sore today. Baby seems to know what she’s doing so I started calling her ‘baby Hoover.’ Because I couldn’t eat for almost the entire 9 months that she must be hungry now! I can’t believe I vomited all day long for my entire pregnancy. Ugh! That’s a nightmare I hope to forget. The thought of getting pregnant again terrifies me!
She’s wanted to nurse every hour today…I wonder if I am just not making enough to satisfy her yet. It’s only been 2 days since my baby was born. Still….I am starting to get a little worried. Is it normal that she wants to eat every hour?
Her first good newborn poop
My beautiful little cue-ball baby seems to be a little more alert today. I can’t get enough of her smell or her little grunty noises, I just want to stare at her all day. She had her first really good newborn poop today. It was more like black tar…. but somewhere in my memory I feel like I knew that it’s supposed to look like tar right now? Maybe? I don’t want to call the pediatrician to ask that, though. I will feel like I am dumb for not knowing. We are supposed to see them in 2 days so I will ask then, if it comes up. She’s starting to get these little white spots on her nose so I want to make sure that’s normal.
If we are already talking about newborn poop we might as well talk about how I’m scared to even look ‘down there’
It happened already this morning that I broke down and cried when my husband was changing her. I felt like he was hurting her, she cried so hard-which made me cry hard. Don’t want to say something and make him feel bad. I know he doesn’t know anymore than I do, and were both so tired…We will get better at this at some point.
I look down and I don’t recognize my body, it looks so gross. It’s like I am still pregnant but my belly is a little squishy. Also, I can’t bear the thought of looking ‘down there’ after my stitches and pushing for so long. My body will never be the same and it still is super tender just to go to the bathroom. Speaking of which, where is my little peri-bottle thing it’s time to go to the bathroom again…
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