Feeling Alive

Well I am feeling much better this morning, it is amazing what a decent sleep can do.

I woke Lily to feed her at 7:30pm and she went back to sleep at about 8:30 so I took the opportunity to have an early night myself.
Lily slept until 11:45pm when she woke for a feed again, I was feeling really alert after 3 hours solid sleep, something I hadn't had for a while!
Lily then woke again at 3:20 am for another feed so again another couple of hours solid sleep. Then we were up at 7:30am.

Lily seemed to feed much better overnight, and certainly setlled much easier. I am hoping that she is now getting much more milk and her settling well is a reflection of this.
The midwife will be here in about half an hour to weigh her again, so lets hope the scales reflect this.

I was feeling so down and like a failure yesterday, no wonder my little girl was so unsettled at night, she was hungry. I didn't think she was hungry though as it appeared to me she was feeding well. Oh well I guess there is so much to learn and I should try not to beat myself up too much.

After the midwife has been this morning, I think we are going to go up to Mums for a visit, I need to get out of these 4 walls and have a change of scenery. Mum lives in a beautiful hilly area so I think we may even pop Lily in her pram and go for a walk, that would be lovely.

When I took Lily's nappy off this morning to give her a bath her cord had come off! How exciting! So that is something else I can put in Lily's baby book, her cord fell off at 10 days old. My goodness I can't believe my little princess is 10 days old already, where has the time gone? Oh thats right the first week was spent in hospital.

I feel sort of though our precious first few days where stolen away from us. We could only admire our baby girl through the glass of her crib.
However at the same time I know that I have so much to be thankful for and I am so thankful everyday that Lily has bounced back so well and we are now home as a family, just the way it should be.

I try to drink in each day to the max and take in and savour every moment as I know that time passes by so quickly.
This is what I kept telling myself yesterday to enjoy each moment, however I have discovered that is a little easier said than done when you are dragging your feet with tiredness! Never the less I will contine to soak up and enjoy my baby girl.

Best be off to pack Lily's bag for her first trip to Nana's and my first time driving since having Lily. So far I have been sitting in the back seat with her. I am sure I will stop at least 3 times to check she is ok!