One month!

It's hard to believe our little Aurora has been with us a whole month now. She's definitely growing and putting on weight. We have our 1 month check-up next week. We've had a great time in the last month introducing her to her Grandma Ellen and over Christmas to her Grandma Sue and Grandpa Dave not to mention lots of friends. She's still not a big sleeper, perhaps she's afraid if she sleeps too long she'll miss something exciting? We're all getting used to each other and the big changes that have resulted from introducing a baby to our lives.

We've been getting asked a lot for photos and must confess, we're still working on making an album to share pictures. Time online is a brief luxury at best, and we haven't had time to sort out the where and what. We're both very hesitant to just post all her pictures to places like Facebook (Facebook doesn't exactly have a great privacy track record) - call us neurotic, but she's our kid, so we're gonna do what we're comfortable with. Watch the blog for links to an album of photos soon. In the meantime here's a couple teasers.

Aurora is one week old

Ok, a week and a day now. Time is blurry when sleep is limited. We are so in love with this little girl. We've learned a lot about her in this first week. She loves to be snuggled, she's got a voracious appetite, and apparently she loves the Beatles. M was trying to soothe her one cranky afternoon while I was napping, so she put on our Beatles Rock Band game on the Xbox and tried signing for her, she LOVED it! So we bought a Beatles CD for car rides. Aurora is a very alert baby and she has an adorable smile that crops up when she's really rested a recently fed. We're working on setting up a online album so we can share all the amazing photos M has taken since her birth. We'll put a link up when it's ready.

If you'd like to see her let us know, we're looking for a few good friends to snuggle with her while her mom's take a breather.

actual weight

So it turns out I was actually right about the baby's weight. She was actually 7lbs, 15oz, but due to a typo, got mislabeled for a day. I asked when we were in the nursery getting her cleaned up, but was told no, she was under 6lbs and that I must have heard wrong. Sleepy me just believed it. Until yesterday afternoon, when she got weighed and came well out over 7.5lbs. Freaked the nurse out for a moment until I told her why the baby weighed that. They generally don't gain nearly a pound overnight. ;)

Home at last

Checked out of the hospital today, Mama & Baby Aurora doing well. First peds checkup tomorrow morning, but she had nearly perfect (9/9) APGAR scores, and her bilirubin levels are good. She is one healthy baby. After a long and protracted prelabor, Mama pushed that baby out in less than 30 minutes of hard labor. Almost no tearing at all, and she's healing quite well.

Both of them are figuring each other out for breastfeeding, it is actually going surprisingly well for this early on. A little chomp chomp, but mostly just one hungry baby.

Posting up a few of my favorite pictures taken in the hospital. Plenty more to come!

Aurora claims the stethoscope for herself. 

Napping after breakfast.

All ready to get in the car seat and go home for the first time!

She's here!

We would like to announce the official arrival of Aurora Joy. She was born at 11:30pm on 11/30/11, weighing in at 6 lbs, 15 oz, and measuring 20.5 inches. I think my initial texts out all had 7lbs 15oz, that was an error in calculation (I blame the NICU staff measuring her! ;)