Noisy!

PDXPhotoGrl

How you feeling, punkin?

KayRI

Are you home?  How's that bay-bee?

noisy_penguin

I was going to say hello yesterday and then I got distracted. We got out of the hospital on Tuesday morning. I'm doing pretty well, aside from the whole not sleeping thing. I'll type up the birth stuff at some point, but probably not now. She was 7 lbs and 5 oz - exactly 4 lbs smaller than Will - and 20 inches. She has skinny little arms and legs and all her newborn clothes are baggy. I can't believe how small she is.

Will is doing really well with Evie. I think any jealousy issues he's having he's taking out on me (I've been bitten once and had my hair pulled once - two things he hasn't done to me for like, a year), but he likes her so far. Yesterday she was laying on the ground and Will shook various toys for her for about 15 minutes.

Anyway, here are some pictures.

 

 

Coming home - Will picked out her outfit (he liked the flowers on the sweater from Cali)

 

 

 

 

buddhagouda

Oh my goodness, they are so sweet together. Congrats Noisy. 

PDXPhotoGrl

I am all teared up right now. She's gorgeous.

And yay you, you must have kicked ass with the GD diet!

Hurray for Evie!

CaliopeSpidrman

Ohmiga, they are just so cute together.  What sweet pictures!  And you are such a cool mom to let Will pick out her coming home outfit.  His choice leads me to believe that, despite all your trauma at 8 weeks, he is not gay.

Temp950106187509203

So sweet.  I'm a big ole pile of mush at the reading picture. 

wingedbride

oh how sweet the family pictures!! congrats!!

noisy_penguin

PDXPhotoGrl:

I am all teared up right now. She's gorgeous.

And yay you, you must have kicked ass with the GD diet!

Hurray for Evie!

One of the NICU doctors came to talk to me for a few minutes and said that if she hadn't been told she would have had no idea I had GD. It made me feel pretty good. She also told me she had a "c-section head," and I was all, "um...what does that mean?" Just that her head was round and not pointy. I was deliriously tired and was imagining all sorts of awful things. 

BobLoblaw

You look radiant! She is so beautiful, the pics of her and Will are just too cute.

Welcome home, lady!

PDXPhotoGrl

noisy_penguin:

PDXPhotoGrl:

I am all teared up right now. She's gorgeous.

And yay you, you must have kicked ass with the GD diet!

Hurray for Evie!

One of the NICU doctors came to talk to me for a few minutes and said that if she hadn't been told she would have had no idea I had GD. It made me feel pretty good. She also told me she had a "c-section head," and I was all, "um...what does that mean?" Just that her head was round and not pointy. I was deliriously tired and was imagining all sorts of awful things. 

Did you have a c-section or just get her out so expediently that her head didn't get misshapen? 

Sean had a round head too.

noisy_penguin

No c-section. She just came out pretty quickly. Lorne was talking me up to the nurses and telling them that Will came out in just a couple pushes, and I got mad at him and told him that he was jinxing me to pushing for 4 hours. But she also came out in two pushes. The whole thing went really quickly, they started the foley bulb thing at 5:30 PM and she was out before 1:30 AM. Since Will's went unusually quickly for an induction we were prepared for this to last much longer than it did.

PDXPhotoGrl

Has anyone ever told you you're a very efficient birther?

mashedpotato

beautiful pictures, noisy!  congratulations!

MrsKizdoodle

She is precious!!  I love Will in his Will shirt - I bet there will be lots of funny stories about him as he adjusts to being a big brother!

Seeing her really puts it into perspective how big Will actually was as a newborn.  :-)  

Congrats to your new family of four (!!!)  :-)

KayRI

Beautiful pictures!  I love Will's smile in the one where he's sitting on the bed.

Vinny2008

Oh yay!  I love all of the pictures.  The one of Will on the floor next to her is just too wonderful.

I have something in my eye.  Honest.  I'm not getting all emotional like over your pictures.  Yeah.

MrsKizdoodle

How are pronouncing Evie?  EE-vee or EH-vee?  I love her name either way.  :-)

lindsayll

Awww, so cute!  These all make me want another one like WHOA.  I'm glad the Mirena will prevent me from doing something irrational.

salimoo

Awwww, look how sweet. Welcome home!

noisy_penguin

MrsKizdoodle:

How are pronouncing Evie?  EE-vee or EH-vee?  I love her name either way.  :-)

This way.

Thanks everyone. We're pretty happy.  

wingedbride

noisy_penguin:

No c-section. She just came out pretty quickly. Lorne was talking me up to the nurses and telling them that Will came out in just a couple pushes, and I got mad at him and told him that he was jinxing me to pushing for 4 hours. But she also came out in two pushes. The whole thing went really quickly, they started the foley bulb thing at 5:30 PM and she was out before 1:30 AM. Since Will's went unusually quickly for an induction we were prepared for this to last much longer than it did.

this gives me hope since i was worried pushing him out in 3 pushes was a fluke. i also got the csection head comments and in fact a friend said she was sure i had a csection and thought i was lying.

KristenBtobe

I love the pictures. They make me want to whip out the paraguard panflete about removal. How's nursing going?

noisy_penguin

It's going well, mostly! She latched on right after birth and wants to eat all the time. She's got quite the strong latch though, and I've had some cracking issues. I've bought stock in Lasinoh though, and got some of the soothing nursing pads that I remember helping when Will finally got the hang of nursing and things are looking up. All my nursing tanks from last time are too small though, so I'm kind of busting out of them and it hurts to wear them when I'm engorged. If my MIL wasn't here I'd be walking around topless. 

wingedbride

for the cracking i highly recommend submerging the nips in 1 tsp salt disolved in about 1 c. warm water for 1-2 minutes after you nurse, it heals and soothes.

noisy_penguin

I'll definitely try that Winged, thanks!

wingedbride

oh, and only 3 times a day. don't do it too much or too long or you'll dry them out

jens_a_ten

EEE, what a sweetie!

 

HunkyLorne holding tiny Evie and reading to Will is the cutest thing in the history of the universe.

wkatie

Awesome pics.  Congrats Noisy & fam!

Irishgrl417

I love Big Brother Will. He looks much more impressed with his little sister than my brother ever looked in my baby pictures.

And ditto what Jens said about the Lorne picture.